2025 Australian Senate election

The 2025 Australian Senate election was held on Saturday, 3 May 2025 to elect 40 of the 76 senators in the Australian Senate as part of the 2025 federal election. Elected senators took office on 1 July 2025, with the exception of the senators elected from the two territories whose terms commenced from election day. The elected senators sat alongside continuing senators elected in 2022 as part of the 48th Parliament of Australia.

Labor was set to hold 28 seats in the new Senate, making this the first time Labor was the largest party in the Senate since the 1984 election. On 2 June 2025, Greens Senator Dorinda Cox left the Greens and joined Labor, taking the number of Labor Senators to 29 in the new parliament beginning on 1 July 2025.

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+Senate (STV) – Turnout 90.68% (CV)GroupFirst preferenceSeatsVotes %Swing ()SeatswonNotupNewtotal+/−  Labor 5,573,028 35.11 +5.02 16 12 28 3LiberalNational Coalition 4,744,580 29.89 −4.35 13 14 27 3 Liberal/Nationals (joint) 2,756,296 17.37 −2.56 4 5 9 1  Liberal National 997,404 6.28 −0.78 2 2 4  Liberal 892,188 5.62 −1.38 6 7 13 2 Country Liberal 34,954 0.22 +0.00 1 0 1  Greens 1,859,974 11.72 −0.94 6 5 11  One Nation 899,296 5.67 +1.38 3 1 4 2 Legalise Cannabis 553,163 3.49 +0.16 0 0 0  Trumpet of Patriots 413,238 2.60 +2.38 0 0 0  Family First 236,728 1.49 New 0 0 0  Animal Justice 198,611 1.25 −0.35 0 0 0  Lambie 166,085 1.05 +0.84 1 0 1  People First/Katter's Australian 151,310 0.95 New 0 0 0 1  Australia's Voice 119,717 0.75 +0.75 0 1 1  David Pocock 114,915 0.72 +0.32 1 0 1  Christians 102,519 0.65 +0.43 0 0 0  Indigenous-Aboriginal 101,508 0.64 +0.16 0 0 0  Libertarian/HEART/People First 92,892 0.59 New 0 0 0    Nationals / 63,738 0.40 +0.37 0 0 0  Libertarian 63,572 0.40 +0.40 0 0 0  Victorian Socialists 63,093 0.40 +0.26 0 0 0  Shooters, Fishers, Farmers 59,434 0.37 −0.61 0 0 0  Sustainable Australia 58,090 0.37 −0.15 0 0 0  FUSION 46,007 0.29 −0.05 0 0 0  People First/HEART 44,080 0.28 New 0 0 0   Socialist Alliance 37,813 0.24 +0.05 0 0 0  Democrats 37,734 0.24 −0.20 0 0 0  People First 37,505 0.24 New 0 0 0  Citizens 35,432 0.22 +0.02 0 0 0  Unendorsed/Ungrouped/Independents 36,245 0.23 −0.67 0 1 1 1 Great Australian 15,249 0.10 −0.45 0 0 0  Great Australian/HEART 5,927 0.04 New 0 0 0   HEART/Libertarian 3,444 0.02 New 0 0 0   Tammy Tyrrell for Tasmania colspan=3 0 1 1  United Australia Partycolspan=3 0 1 1 Total 15,871,189 – – 40 36 76 –Informal votes 567,3053.45 +0.03Turnout16,438,49490.83 +0.36Registered voters18,098,797–– Source: AEC, ABC

Result by states

New South Wales +  # Senator Party 1  Tony Sheldon Labor 2  Andrew Bragg Liberal 3  Tim Ayres Labor 4  Jessica Collins Liberal 5  Mehreen Faruqi Greens 6  Warwick Stacey One Nation

Victoria +  # Senator Party 1  Raff Ciccone Labor 2  James Paterson Liberal 3  Jess Walsh Labor 4  Jane Hume Liberal 5  Steph Hodgins-May Greens 6  Michelle Ananda-Rajah Labor

Queensland +  # Senator Party 1  Paul Scarr Liberal National 2  Nita Green Labor 3  Susan McDonald Liberal National 4  Corinne Mulholland Labor 5  Larissa Waters Greens 6  Malcolm Roberts One Nation

Western Australia +  # Senator Party 1  Ellie Whiteaker Labor 2  Slade Brockman Liberal 3  Varun Ghosh Labor 4  Jordon Steele-John Greens 5  Matt O'Sullivan Liberal 6  Tyron Whitten One Nation

South Australia # Senator Party 1  Marielle Smith Labor 2  Alex Antic Liberal 3  Karen Grogan Labor 4  Anne Ruston Liberal 5  Greens 6  Charlotte Walker Labor

Tasmania # Senator Party 1  Carol Brown Labor 2  Claire Chandler Liberal 3  Nick McKim Greens 4  Richard Dowling Labor 5  Jacqui Lambie Lambie 6  Liberal

Result by territories Under section 42 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, the senators representing the Australian territories (which do not have equal status as the Australian states under the Australian constitution) expire at the close of the day immediately before the day of the election.

Australian Capital Territory # Senator Party 1  David Pocock Pocock 2  Labor

Northern Territory # Senator Party 1  Labor 2  Jacinta Nampijinpa Price CLP

See also Candidates of the 2025 Australian Senate election Members of the Australian Senate, 2025–2028

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