1,456 candidates to contest 2025 federal election

A total of 1,456 candidates have nominated to contest the 2025 federal election, after nominations were officially declared yesterday at public events held across Australia.

Ballot paper positions were drawn immediately after. Candidate lists in ballot paper order have now been verified and are available on the AEC’s website.

The national figures include 330 candidates contesting 40 Senate vacancies and 1,126 candidates for the 150 House of Representatives seats across Australia.

• Which House? 29.3% Senate, 70.7% House of Representatives 
• Candidate gender: 898 male, 547 female, 11 unspecified
• Divisions with the most candidates: 13 (Riverina and Calwell)
• How does it compare: See the 2022 federal election figures

Quotes

• Attributable to Australian Electoral Commissioner Jeff Pope  

“Declarations of nominations are always a very important milestone in the enormous logistical operation that is running a federal election”.

“We can now concentrate on securely printing 60 million ballot papers and get everything ready for early voting to commence on Tuesday 22 April 2025”.

“A record 18 million Australians are enrolled and able to cast their votes between Tuesday 22 April and 6pm on election day (Saturday 3 May), at approximately 8,000 polling locations available across Australia”.

Editor’s notes:

• Qualification checklists (constitutional eligibility) will be available on the AEC’s website soon.
• New South Wales was entitled to 47 seats at the 2022 federal election. This has now decreased to 46.
• Western Australia was entitled to 15 seats at the 2022 federal election. This has now increased to 16.
• Victoria was entitled to 39 seats at the 2022 federal election. This has now decreased to 38.
• 2025 federal election reporting guide
• AEC imagery (AEC Flickr)