According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), preliminary vote-counting results on May 3 showed that Prime Minister Albanese led the Labor Party to win the 2025 federal election.

Albanese will be re-elected as the Prime Minister of Australia, and he has become the first Prime Minister of Australia to successfully serve a second term since John Winston Howard in 2004.

Some people believe that U.S. President Trump, who has been intimidating global trade partners with tariffs, is one of the key factors determining which side would win in this Australian federal election.

Reuters pointed out that the victory of the Australian Labor Party and the reversal of the Liberal Party in Canada are both expressions of voters' concerns about Trump's policies and the resulting uncertainties.

Clare O'Neill, the Australian Housing Minister, mentioned that the factor of Trump has always been hidden in the background when talking about the victory of the Labor Party. "This is an election about the cost of living, and the Labor Party has given a better answer," she said.

The opposition to the Labor Party is the coalition formed by the Liberal Party and the National Party. ABC predicts that not only will Dutton lose the election as the leader of the opposition, but he also risks losing his seat.

Dutton is considered part of Australia's mainstream conservative group. According to the BBC, in February, after Trump proposed expelling Palestinians from Gaza, Dutton called him a "dealmaker" and "great thinker."

As early as January, when Trump returned to the White House, Dutton was still leading in the polls. At that time, Australian citizens were dissatisfied with the cost of living and housing burden under the Labor Party's governance.

Two political strategists said that Trump is not the decisive factor for Dutton's declining poll support. Dutton also made some mistakes, including proposing a short-term policy to ban civil servants from working from home.

Independent political advisor Simon Jackman said that this election was originally supposed to be a review of how poorly Albanese and the Labor Party managed the cost-of-living crisis, but things quickly changed.

"The question became which party could protect Australia from the extremely uncertain global economic environment, and this is mainly caused by the actions of the U.S. President," said Simon Jackman.

Political expert Melissa Clarke said that voters have fully recognized Albanese's steady governing style. "He has been criticized for lacking adventurous spirit and unwillingness to take big steps in reforms, but he always believes that what Australians need is a steady hand," she said.

In March, Albanese said that Australian voters would "choose the path forward" in this election. "In this uncertain era, we cannot decide the challenges we will face, but we can decide how to respond," he said.

This federal election will determine the composition of the new federal parliament's House of Representatives. A party needs at least 76 seats out of the total 150 seats in the House of Representatives to form a government. If no single party can win a majority, it must cooperate with other parties or independent candidates to gain a majority, forming a "hung parliament."

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