Election 2025: Liberal Party failed to win any seat where Peter Dutton campaigned most

Anthony Albanese made more visits than Peter Dutton to 11 of the 12 seats that Labor picked up from the Liberal Party.

Anthony Albanese visits Goodstart Early Learning in Croydon in the eastern Melbourne seat of Deakin, which Labor picked up from the Liberals. Picture: Jason Edwards/NewsWire

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Peter Dutton visited 10 seats on three occasions or more during the election campaign and failed to win any of them, while Anthony Albanese made more visits than the opposition leader to 11 of the 12 seats that Labor picked up from the Liberal Party last Saturday.

The opposition leader did not campaign in eight of the 12 seats his party surrendered.

In an illustration of the ­Liberals’ poorly chosen campaign itinerary, Mr Dutton visited ­Tasmania three times, venturing into Labor-held Lyons each time but bypassing Liberal-held Bass and Braddon. The ALP not only held Lyons comfortably, it also picked up the two northern Tasmanian seats from the opposition.

Peter Dutton with the Liberal candidate for Lyons, Susie Bower, on one of his three visits to the Tasmanian seat, which Labor easily retained. Picture: Richard Dobson/NewsWire

Mr Dutton adopted a very ­aggressive campaign strategy, with 74 seats visits in Labor, Greens or independents’ territory and only 11 in Coalition-held electorates. Five of these 11 appearances were in his own seat of Dickson, which ultimately was lost.

Although Mr Dutton did make campaign stops in Leichhardt, Sturt and the notionally Liberal Bennelong – all of which the Liberals lost – the Prime Minister made more appearances than the opposition leader in each one.

Mr Albanese made two campaign stops in each of Deakin, Braddon and Bonner and one each in Bass and Banks. None of these seats was included in the opposition leader’s 36 days of campaigning.

In an indication of which seats delivered the biggest surprise switches, neither leader set foot in Forde or Petrie in Brisbane’s outer suburbs, or Hughes on Sydney’s southern fringe – all of which Labor picked up from the Liberals last Saturday.

The electorates Mr Dutton visited most after Dickson were Tangney (four stops) followed by Aston, Hawke, Macnamara, McEwen, Pearce, Swan, Paterson, McMahon and Lyons (three each). The Liberals failed to win any of these seats.

The one seat the Liberal Party has definitely gained at this ­election was teal-held Goldstein in Melbourne’s inner south, which the opposition leader visited once – on election day.