Australian Federal election 2025 live updates: Peter Dutton facing uphill battle against Labor in Dickson

7NEWS’ Hugh Whitfield has said there is no clear path to Government for the Coalition.

We believe there is no path to victory for the Coalition at all tonight. It will either be a minority or majority Labor Government, with Anthony Albanese returned as Prime Minister.

We’ve had our first seat flip from the Liberal Party to the Labor Party. The seat of Bass in Tasmania is the first time tonight that we are seeing Labor gain ground.

It’s 6pm in the west, which means polls are officially closed across all Australia.

Labor is looking strong across the country and we now await the count in key WA seats, including Bullwinkel and Curtin.

In far north Queensland’s seat of Leichhardt, Matt Smith has recorded a 14 per cent swing to Labor to have a lead over the LNP, who currently hold the seat.

To Tasmania, where a 12 per cent swing to Labor has elected Jess Teesdale, and ended Liberal MP Bridget Archer’s time in Parliament.

In Braddon, Labor’s Anne Urquhart has a promising lead over Liberal Mal Kingston too, in a result which would see the Government win four out of five seats in Tasmania.

Aston, won by Labor at a mid-term by-election by the Government, has been held by Labor’s Mary Doyle.

But in Bendigo, Labor MP Lisa Chesters is facing a challenge from a strong Nationals showing, with an 8 per cent swing against her.

With 9 per cent counted in Peter Dutton’s own seat of Dickson, the Opposition Leader is facing a real fight to hang onto his place in Parliament.

Labor’s Ali France - on her third shot at winning the seat, is currently ahead on primary votes, with a swing towards the Government. Dutton’s primary vote has slipped by 10 per cent, before the counting of prepoll and postal votes.

The Liberals are trailing behind a Teal-backed independent in Bradfield, where Gisele Kapterian is attempting to hold the north-shore seat for the Coalition.

And an independent is polling strongly against Cabinet Minister Jason Clare in Blaxland.

It should be noted thesde are largely counts from voters today and not early voting from the last two weeks.

One of the biggest take outs from the 2022 election was the election of three Green MPs from Queensland in Brisbane, Griffith and Ryan.

In all three, with early counts underway, the Greens are trailing with the Government ahead.

After more than a decade of despair in the Apple Isle, the early numbers from Tasmania have swung to Labor, including in Braddon, where sititng Senator Anne Urquhart is in a strong position against the Liberals.

In Lyons, former State Labor leader Rebecca White has a swing of 8 per cent towards her and would see the Government hold the seat.

Labor has eked out an early lead in the marginal seat of Gilmore, with Fiona Phillips leading former Transport Minister Andrew Constance.

The Government is also leading in Fowler, with Tu Le ahead of Independent MP Dai Le.