Australian PM wins second term with increased majority

Labor's Anthony Albanese has defied the alleged "incumbency curse" to beryllium re-elected Australia's premier curate successful a landslide.

Official ballot counting won't reason for days, but Albanese's centre-left authorities is acceptable to dramatically summation its bulk aft the Liberal-National conjugation suffered a thumping decision nationwide.

"Today, the Australian radical person voted for Australian values: for fairness, aspiration and accidental for all; for the spot to amusement courageousness successful adversity and kindness to those successful need," Albanese said.

Coalition person Peter Dutton – who mislaid his ain spot of 24 years – said helium accepted "full responsibility" for his party's nonaccomplishment and apologised to his MPs.

Labor has seen swings towards them successful astir each country crossed the state – a uncommon feat for a second-term authorities successful Australia - and Albanese becomes the archetypal premier curate to triumph back-to-back elections successful implicit 20 years.

The party's occurrence has besides tempered a inclination of voters abandoning the 2 large parties, which was the large communicative of the past predetermination successful 2022.

Labor is connected way to decorativeness with 86 seats, the Coalition with 39, and the Greens Party with 1 oregon two, according to projections by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Other insignificant parties and autarkic are up successful 10 seats.

It's a singular turnaround from the commencement of the year, erstwhile polling enactment Albanese's popularity astatine grounds lows aft 3 years of planetary economical pain, tense nationalist debate, and increasing authorities dissatisfaction.