Australia’s PM Albanese on Track for Biggest Victory Since WWII
Anthony Albanese and his partner Jodie Haydon, outside a polling station during a federal election in Sydney, May 3.
Photographer: Brent Lewin/BloombergAustralia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was on track to lead his party to its biggest election victory since World War II, giving him a strong mandate to tackle much-needed economic reform and bargain with the Trump administration on tariffs.
Albanese will enter his second term as a Labor hero after back-to-back wins in Saturday’s election, the first prime minister to do so since 2004, while in a shock outcome opposition leader Peter Dutton lost his seat. With 60% of votes counted, Labor led by 55.9% to the opposition’s 44.1%, the Australian Electoral Commission said. That was a much stronger result than polls predicted, with Labor now projected to win at least 86 of the parliament’s 150 seats with 14 still undecided.