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Live Australia Federal Election Results Updates

1. Cabinet Ministers to be announced soon by PM Malcolm Turnbull . Read more.
2. The Coalition has won the seats of Flynn and Capricornia, and has absolute majority now with 76 seats. 
3. Now Coalition will not need support from other smaller parties and will be a stable government.

Read More : Close seats where counting is still underway

Read More : Division Wise Current Election Result, Swings, Vote %

Senate Results (Counting in Progress) – Seante Results not expected before August First week.

1. 38 seats for a majority
2. 76 seats left, of 76

According to  AEC (Australian Election Commission) Following is the latest Tally  (these are still not final won seats but leading seats)

Highlights Live Result Australia Elections 2016 

1. The uncertain outcome of Saturday’s federal election and chances of three years of minority government and paralysis on budget reform, can cause markets to crash and Australian dollar to sink further.
2. Turnbull was pinning his hopes on mail-in and early ballots that traditionally favor the conservatives.
3. The likeliest scenarios point to a slim coalition victory or a dreaded hung parliament, which could prompt yet another election.
4. Smaller parties may have their say in government formation, NXT candidate Rebekha Sharkie, who won the party’s only lower house seat, may even have a say over who becomes prime minister should the election lead to a hung parliament.
5. Xenophon, a former suburban lawyer who has served in the Senate since 2008, won 2 seats
6. The Australian Electoral Commission said the ruling conservative coalition was leading in 71 seats, the center-left opposition Labor Party in 68 seats, and minor parties or independents in five seats. Counting was less clear in another six seats of the 150 in the House of Representatives where parties that control a majority form government.
7. Australia's only minority government since World War II was led by the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013 when the coalition was swept to power with 90 seats. 
8. What Malcolm Turnbull said was " I’m sure that as the results are refined and come in over the next few days with all of the counting, we will be able to form that majority government. But, let me say this, let me say this without any fear of contradiction. The Labor party has no capacity in this parliament to form a stable majority government. That is a fact."
9. Former minister Jamie Briggs has conceded victory 
10. Labor scents hung parliament
11. Deputy Barnaby Joyce has won New England and, despite a 10 per cent swing against him, Tony Abbott has held Warringah.
12. Early counting shows the party’s sitting MP, Scott Bucholz has more than 42 per cent of the primary vote with Labor’s Allistair Smith trailing on about 21 per cent.
13. Victorian independent Cathy McGowan is looking comfortably ahead. The count is recording a 4.4% positive swing.

Live Australian Election Voting Updates

1. Important Links on Australia Election With just 15 minutes left to vote there was just a handful of last-minute voters.There was no shortage of ballot papers at the polling station
2. Bill Shorten has gone into Moonee Ponds West primary school to vote.
3. Malcolm Turnbull has voted in his Sydney seat of Wentworth, while Bill Shorten is campaigning in Sydney before heading to his Melbourne seat of Maribyrnong.
4. There’s 150 seats in the lower house and either side needs to win 76 to form a majority government. Labor needs a net gain of 21 seats to win. 
5. A Newspoll of 4,135 people published in The Australian newspaper showed Turnbull`s Liberal/National coalition 50.5 to 49.5 percent in front on a two-party basis.
6. Australians are turning out at more than 7,000 booths — but about 2.5 million people have already cast their ballots in pre-poll voting.

Australia Exit Polls

Australia Election Opinion Poll Summary  

Australia Election Schedule

Australia Election Results

Important Dates 

2 July – Polling day
8 August – Return of writs

Latest Australian Opinion Polls (Summary of all Opinion Polls here)