When the Albanese government was returned to power at the May 2025 federal election, it achieved the strongest result for a first-term government returning to the ballot box since at least World War 2.
Since the Second World War, Australia’s first-term governments had always lost seats in their first return to face the electorate, losing an average of 4 between 1946 and 1984 and an average of 13.1 in the past 30 years.
So disastrous was Peter Dutton’s leadership that a nation where a majority of voters believed the country was on the wrong track not only returned the incumbent federal government to power but did so with a massively increased majority.
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