2025 Australian Senate election

2025 Australian federal election (Senate)

3 May 2025

40 of the 76 seats in the Australian Senate
39 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Penny Wong	Michaelia Cash	Larissa Waters
Party	Labor	Liberal–National Coalition	Greens
Leader since	26 June 2013	25 January 2025	4 February 2020 (2020-02-04)
Leader's seat	South Australia (not up for election)	Western Australia (not up for election)	Queensland
Seats before	25	30	11
Seats won	16	13	6
Seats after	28	27	11
Seat change	3	3
Primary vote	5,573,028	4,744,580	1,859,974
Percentage	35.11	29.89	11.72
Swing	5.02 pp	4.35 pp	0.94 pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Pauline Hanson	Gerard Rennick	David Pocock
Party	One Nation	People First	David Pocock
Leader since	29 November 2014	25 August 2024	16 December 2021
Leader's seat	Queensland (not up for election)	Queensland (lost seat)	Australian Capital Territory
Seats before	2	1	1
Seats won	3	0	1
Seats after	4	0	1
Seat change	2	1
Primary vote	899,296	151,310	114,915
Percentage	5.67	0.95	0.72
Swing	1.38 pp		0.32 pp

	Seventh party	Eighth party

Leader	Jacqui Lambie	Fatima Payman
Party	Lambie Network	Australia's Voice
Leader since	14 May 2015	9 October 2024
Leader's seat	Tasmania	Western Australia (not up for election)
Seats before	1	1
Seats won	1	0
Seats after	1	1
Seat change
Primary vote	166,085	119,717
Percentage	1.05	0.75
Swing	0.84 pp	0.75 pp

Senate Leader before election

Penny Wong
Labor

Subsequent Senate Leader

Penny Wong
Labor

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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. Senators elected at this election will take office on 1 July 2025, with the exception of the senators elected from two territories whose terms commenced from election day. The elected senators will sit 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.