Elections

Trump Backlash Helps Australia’s PM to Historic Re-Election

Anthony Albanese speaks at the Labor Party election night event in Sydney on May 3.Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

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By Ben Westcott

May 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM UTC

Updated on

May 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM UTC

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For the second time in a week, voters in a prominent US ally angered by President Donald Trump punished conservatives and re-elected a left-leaning incumbent.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was poised to win the largest victory for his center-left Labor Party since 1946, both in terms of two-party preferred and overall seat count. He’s the first Australian leader to win consecutive elections in more than two decades, and the only one to increase his party’s vote share after one term since World War II.