LIVE: Election 2025 – Millions of Aussies to cast their vote on the nation’s next leader

Voting is now underway in all but one state as Australians line up to make their pick for the next prime minister.

A record number of Australians had already cast their votes before polls opened at 8am across the country but the results won’t start showing until 6pm.

According to the Australian Electoral Commission, 6.7million Australians had cast their ballots at pre-polls before polling booths officially opened at 8am this morning.

Another 1.6million had already submitted a postal vote, bringing the share of early voters to about 40 per cent.

With all major opinion polls pointing to a Labor victory, the question most punters will be asking is whether Albanese has plead his case for a majority government.

Most recent polling suggests that, while Labor has managed to elbow its way to two-party-preferred dominance, its primary vote share has been diluted by independents.

Mr Dutton meanwhile has referred to the polling against him as overly-pessimistic, urging voters to remain open-minded.

Both leaders began their days in Melbourne – the city and its surrounds in which many punters expected the election to be decided.

Later in the day, Albanese will cast his vote in his home seat of Grayndler along with his fiance Jodie and dog, Toto.

The Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, meanwhile, began his day in the safe Labor seat of Macnamara in Melbourne’s south.

Despite a healthy 12.2 per cent margin, the Coalition is looking for an upset after Labor revealed it would preference the Liberal candidate ahead of the Greens in the seat.