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When you pick through the entrails of this most unusual election, a fundamental shift in Australian politics is laid bare.
The way Australians regard the two-party system has changed — for both sides of the aisle.
Different dynamics are at play in different parts of the country, with the Coalition tending to lose seats to Labor in suburban areas, and losing to independents in wealthier areas of capital cities.
It leaves Labor with a clear lead in seats in the house of representatives, even if the incoming Prime Minister doesn't quite end up commanding a majority.
Labor swings different from state to state
Like 2019, the two-party preferred swing varies from state to state.
Swings toward the Coalition in Tasmania have helped it hold the marginal seats of Bass and Braddon.
But Western Australia has delivered for Labor, with the party picking up a swing in the double digits.
That has swept Labor members into office in Swan, Pearce, Hasluck and Tangney, with the seat of Moore still in doubt.
The state swing chart paints a picture of a Labor whitewash, but the end result is far more nuanced than that.
The other big winners
Anthony Albanese becomes Australia's 31st Prime Minister with his party winning a historically low primary vote.
Altogether, the share of the primary vote going to candidates outside the major parties looks to be over 30 per cent.
That's a record high, and a significant increase even compared to the trendline of recent decades.
The crossbench has more than doubled in size, with teal independents some of the big winners.
Liberal members in those seats have suffered large drops in their primary votes.
In North Sydney, Trent Zimmerman's vote fell 14.5 percentage points, and in Goldstein, Tim Wilson lost 13.1 percentage points from his primary.
The Greens party room grows
The Greens look to have obtained their highest lower house first preference vote ever, marginally improving on their 2010 result.
But more importantly, that vote has been concentrated in all the right places for the party to maximise its haul of seats.
On top of retaining the seat of Melbourne, they've won Ryan in Brisbane and are in very good shape to win Griffith as well.
The seats of Brisbane and Macnamara could be won by either the Greens or Labor.
So if all goes well for the Greens, Adam Bandt could be leading a group of five MPs in the lower house — which would be the largest minor party stake in the lower house since 1949.
One Nation vote falls in coal country
While One Nation's national primary vote has gone up, that's largely an artifact of the fact that the party ran in more seats this election compared to 2019.
In the seats Pauline Hanson's party ran in last time, the party has seen its primary vote go backwards.
That includes some big swings in the seats they performed best in three years ago.
In Hunter, the seat that One Nation had its biggest first preference vote, its first preference vote is below 10 per cent — nearly 12 per cent less than 2019.
So while the non-major party vote has surged, the balance of votes in that bloc has shifted toward the left and centre of the political spectrum.
In a campaign that included a bitter battle over the net-zero target, it's not hard to see who in parliament has won the day.
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