Australia will hold a general election tomorrow to decide whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will stay in power or be replaced by opposition leader Peter Dutton of the Liberal-National coalition.
Australia’s parliament is made up of two houses. The government is formed in the lower house, known as the House of Representatives, where the party or coalition with at least 76 of the 150 seats can govern. The Senate, the upper house, has 76 members, 12 from each state and two from each of the two territories, and half of these seats will be contested in this election.
Voting is compulsory in Australia for all citizens aged 18 and over. Of the 18 million eligible voters, about 4.8 million have already cast their ballots early. Vote counting will start at 1 p.m. Indian time after the polls close, with most postal votes counted later.
Australia uses a preferential voting system, where voters rank candidates by preference. If no candidate gets over 50 per cent of first-choice votes, the lowest-ranked candidates are eliminated and their votes are redistributed until someone wins.
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