Final polls give Labor a clear lead before the election With those who haven’t already cast a pre-poll vote ready to hit the polling places tomorrow, a final batch of polls give Labor a firm lead. The Conversation · May 2, 2025
Australia election 2025: Results, what polls say and what’s at stake? Here are the issues dominating the federal elections and which party is leading in the polls. Al Jazeera · May 2, 2025
Reform UK rise is a golden opportunity for the SNP and independence movement RUNCORN and Helsby is almost certainly the first by-election in history in which the provisional margin of victory was first made public knowledge… The National (Scotland) · May 2, 2025
Local elections 2025 full results: Reform gain new MP and control of first councils as Tories and Labour falter Reform have made huge gains, beating Labour at the Runcorn by-election and seizing control of Kent, Staffordshire, Durham, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire councils Evening Standard · May 2, 2025
Labor far outspends Coalition and Clive Palmer on Google and Meta ads amid calls for change to blackout laws Analysis of online ad data shows parties and affiliated groups spent more than $39m for political ads across Facebook, YouTube and Google search since 28 March The Guardian - AU · May 2, 2025
Local and mayoral elections: Key results so far No party won more than a quarter of the share of the vote in the West of England mayoral election. The Independent UK · May 2, 2025
Hard right wins local UK election in blow to PM Starmer Hard-right upstarts Reform UK snatched a parliamentary seat from Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour party on Friday in local elections that dealt a blow to Britain's two establishment parties. Radio France Internationale · May 2, 2025
A climate election? The Coalition wants to take Australia backwards, while Labor is standing still Depending on where things end up after Saturday, the biggest climate push may come from the crossbench The Guardian - AU · May 2, 2025
Votes being counted as Farage seeks to ‘smash the two-party system’ Nigel Farage’s Reform UK hopes to make gains at the expense of Labour and the Tories, with the Liberal Democrats and Greens also expecting successes. Evening Standard · May 1, 2025
Local elections scorecard: How to judge a good - and disastrous - night for Labour, Reform and Tories NEWS ANALYSIS: The Independent’s political editor David Maddox explains how we can judge whether each party has succeeded or failed in the elections on 1 May with help from renowned pollster Lord Hayward The Independent UK · May 1, 2025
Liberal-aligned thinktank running anti-Greens ads received $600,000 from coal industry in Queensland election The Australian Institute for Progress’s ‘Can you afford the Greens?’ ads claim minor party’s housing policies would lead to increased rents The Guardian - AU · May 1, 2025
NSW reports of alleged election-related violence and harassment include smearing poo on truck with Liberal ad Ahead of federal election, parties have also reported arson threats and alleged attempts to intimidate diaspora communities The Guardian - AU · May 1, 2025
Labor and Coalition accused of being on fossil fuel ‘unity ticket’ as thermal coal exports hit record high Australia shipped 57m tonnes of coal for burning in overseas power plants between October and December last year, the highest recorded for a three-month period The Guardian - AU · May 1, 2025
When Kendrick met OnlyFans on the way to Bob Katter’s Easter. How much fun was the election campaign? Some called Australia’s election dull but nothing could be further from the truth if you looked at it from a certain angle (and didn’t watch the debates) The Guardian - AU · May 1, 2025
The National (Scotland) · May 1, 2025 Call for abortion decriminalisation in Scotland amid Westminster proposals The Scottish Greens have called for abortion to be decriminalised in Scotland
The National (Scotland) · May 1, 2025 Greens to raise Russell Findlay 'abuse' with Presiding Officer, says MSP The Scottish Greens have said they will be discussing Russell Findlay's "abuse" during FMQs with the Presiding Officer after the Tory…
The National (Scotland) · May 1, 2025 Russell Findlay brands Greens 'dangerous fanatics' in feisty FMQs SCOTTISH Tory leader Russell Findlay branded the Greens "dangerous fanatics" in an FMQs where he was told off by the Presiding Officer…
The Guardian - AU · May 1, 2025 Preferences are more important than ever this election. See where Australian voters sent theirs last time In some seats, preferences will make all the difference – and it’s not as simple as left or right. Explore what happened in your area in 2022
The Conversation · May 1, 2025 Major YouGov poll has Labor easily winning a majority of seats in election A YouGov MRP poll has Labor clearly winning a majority of seats in the federal election – 84 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.
International Business Times · May 1, 2025 UK Local Elections Test Big Two Parties Britain's two main parties are tipped to suffer losses Thursday in local elections likely to confirm the rise of hard-right populists and portend the splintering of a century-long political duopoly.
Evening Standard · May 1, 2025 Local elections 2025: Hour-by-hour guide to results The first results are likely around 2am on Friday May 2.
AAP · Apr 30, 2025 Holding the major parties to account over climate While climate change hasn't dominated the election, the Greens and independents have been heard loudest in a space largely vacated by the major parties.
The Conversation · Apr 30, 2025 Australians are warming to minority governments – but they still prefer majority rule Minority governments have been part of Australia’s political history since Federation.
AAP · Apr 30, 2025 Shock poll predicts historic coalition election wipeout The coalition's seat count will hit a near-80-year low, one analysis shows, as the opposition backtracks on mooted changes to school lessons.
The Guardian - AU · Apr 30, 2025 No relief: the Australian battleground electorates where rental pain is worst Key seats in western Sydney, outer Melbourne and Perth face the worst rent affordability and biggest price hikes, data reveals