Australian Federal Election 2019 (Prime Minister Shorten)

The 2019 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 18 May 2019 to elect members of the 46th Parliament of Australia. The election had been called following the dissolution of the 45th Parliament as elected at the 2016 double dissolution federal election. All 151 seats in the House of Representatives (lower house) and 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate (upper house) were up for election.

The second-term incumbent minority Coalition Government, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, has been Defeated by the Labor opposition, led by Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. Making Him Elected the 31st Prime Minister of Australia. Minor parties and independents also contested the election, the most popular of which were the Australian Greens, One Nation, and the United Australia Party, according to nationwide opinion polls. The Greens, Centre Alliance, and Katter's Australian Party successfully defended one House of Representatives seat each.

Australia enforces compulsory voting and uses full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats for the House of Representatives and optional preferential single transferable voting in the proportionally represented Senate. The election was administered by the Australian Electoral Commission.

On the evening of the election, Antony Green of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) calculated that the Australian Labor Party had won at least 75 seats, while the Coalition had won at least 52, with twenty-three seats still undecided. Green projected that the Labor Party had won at least a minority government, as there was no politically realistic possibility for the Coalition to win.[3] On the morning of 20 May, the ABC projected that the Labor had won enough seats to gain a majority government. Labor Had Claimed a 9 Seat Majority with 85 seats, the Coalition Party finished with 59, whilst the remaining seven seats were won by the Greens, Centre Alliance, Katter's Australian Party and four independents.undefined

On election night, Shorten declared victory and Morrison conceded defeat and declared his intention to stand down as leader of his party, but to remain in parliament.undefined