2024/5 – Federal Election Senate (anytime, 3 Aug 2024 – 17 May 2025)
Simultaneous half-Senate and House of Representatives election
As House of Representatives and half-Senate elections are usually held together, both the earliest and latest days for an election would be dictated by the half-Senate election. As such, the earliest date for a simultaneous election would be Saturday, 3 August 2024 and the latest possible date would be Saturday 17 May 2025
When can a ‘normal’ election be held? has a three-part answer:
- The first date for a normal house and half-Senate election is 7 August 2021, if announced this weekend and writs are issued by Monday 5 July.
- The last date for a normal house and half-Senate election is 21 May 2022. This date gives six weeks to complete the complex Senate count and allows Senators to be declared elected and start their terms on 1 July. A mid-May election would be announced in early April 2022.
- There is a highly improbable option for a half-Senate election by 21 May 2022 and a separate House election as late as 3 September 2022.
Table 1: Commonwealth elections—Next election dates
| Last election | Earliest date | Latest date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simultaneous half-Senate and House of Representatives | 21 May 2022 | 3 August 2024 | 17 May 2025 |
| House of Representatives | 27 September 2025 | ||
| Half-Senate | 3 August 2024 | 17 May 2025 | |
| Double dissolution | N/A | 29 March 2025 |
Source: Parliamentary Library.