Australian federal election, May 2021

The Australian Federal election, January 2021 was the 20th federal election in Australia.

Background
The Australian federal election, May 2021 was contested by 6 registered parties, with the Liberals, Social Democrats, Australian Democrats, Country Labor Party, National Party and the Green Left Party continuing on from the previous election.

The January 2021 Federal election has demonstrated the end of the 2 party system, and polling had indicated that the upcoming election would be close, with the pre-campaign poll indicating the Social Democrats on 19.17%, Other/Independent on 13.46%, the Liberals on 7.10%, Country Labor on 14.23%, the Democrats up to 17.20%, who had enjoyed an extremely active term, rising around 6% since the last election, and the Greens and the Nationals, neck and neck, on 13.56% and 12.79% respectively.

In this election, the National Party famously 'stacked the senate' by putting their 4 most experienced members to run for the senate. It was seen partly as a success, given they won 2/4 senate seats, giving them 3 in total.