2022 Australian Federal Election (Mercbl)

2022 Australian Federal Election
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2022 Australian Federal Election
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The 2022 Australian federal election was held on Saturday 21st of May 2022 to elect members of the 47th parliament of Australia. The election had been called following the dissolution of the 46th parliament of Australia as elected at the 2019 federal election. All of the 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 third-term incumbent Liberal/National Coalition Government, led by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, was defeated by the opposition Australian Labor Party lead by opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The Labor Party claimed a six-seat majority with 81 seats, the Liberal/National Coalition finished with 64, the Australian Greens finished with 2 and the remaining 4 going to the Centre Alliance, Katter's Australian Party and two independents. 
The electoral system of 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 Senate. The election was administered by the Australian Electoral Commission.
==Results==
House of Representatives
Party 	Votes 	% 	Swing (pp)	Seats	Change (seats)
Labor 	6899748	38.45	+5.11 	81 	+13
Liberal/National Coalition	7138799	39.78	-1.66 	64 	-13
Centre Alliance 	171876 	0.96 	+0.63 	2 	+1
Greens 	1995495	11.12	+0.72 	1 	
Katter's Australian 	73015 	0.41 	-0.08 	1 	
Independents 	516250 	2.88 	-0.49 	2 	-1
Other 	1149544	6.4 	-4.23 	0 	
Two-Party-Preferred Vote
Party 	Votes 	% 	Swing (pp)
Labor 	9566334	53.31	+4.84
Liberal/National Coalition	8378393	46.69	-4.84
Senate
Party 	Votes	%	Swing (pp)	Seats	Seats won	Not up	New total	Seat change
Labor 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Liberal/National Coalition	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Greens 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
One Nation 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
==Background==
The 2022 election was largely defined by the Morrison government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the rollout of the COVID vaccine to the Australian public, while the Labor opposition also greatly criticized corruption in the Morrison administration, promising to create a National Anti-Corruption Commission. The weeks preceding the election also saw increased tension between the major Australia ally the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, leading to Defense Minister Peter Dutton participating in a disastrous interview on the ABC's 7.30 program on the 24th of March where he was perceived as overly hawkish and callous towards the possibility of Australia's involvement in a new war in the Middle East less than a year after Australian and American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Fall of Kabul in August 2021. The next day Prime Minister Scott Morrison failed to assuage public fears in a press conference the next day, neither criticizing Dutton's comments nor properly clarifying the Coalition's position on the issue. 
==Election Timeline==
Category:Mercbl
Category:Australia
Category:Australia elections
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