Thank you for joining us. If you're just catching up, here's what happened today:

• The latest figures show Labor on 86 seats, the LNP on 39 and the cross bench 11-strong, with 14 seats still in doubt.

• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has spent the day in his Sydney electorate of Grayndler celebrating his victory, and significantly boosting Labor's majority.

• The Liberal Party will now begin soul-searching after losing leader Peter Dutton and shadow ministers Michael Sukkar and David Coleman. Among the front runners for the party's leadership are Angus Taylor, Sussan Ley, Dan Tehan and Andrew Hastie. A meeting to decide a new leader will take place once more seats are settled.
• Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Labor's success at the polls was "beyond even our most optimistic expectations".
  
• Nationals leader David Littleproud said Nuclear wasn't a factor in the Coalition's loss.
• Calare has been retained by Independent Andrew Gee.
• Independent Kate Chaney retained Curtin.
• In Cowper, Independent Caz Heise conceded defeat.

You can keep up to date with the ABC's election coverage with the link below.

It wasn't a Donald Trump-inspired cap that swayed votes in the Northern Territory last night. The issues faced on the ground are far bigger.

Aside from the national trend towards Labor, voters in the territory were offered two very different pathways by Labor and the CLP about how to fix the immense social problems the NT is currently facing.

Its high crime rates, its overpopulated prison system, its overloaded health system, its overcrowded remote community housing and its dismal remote education outcomes.

• You can keep reading this story from Matt Garrick at the link below.

Victorian voters say they believe US President Donald Trump, the Liberal Party's nuclear power plan and concerns about the future of NDIS funding were the main factors that contributed to the federal election results.

A number of seats in Victoria remain too close to call, but the Liberals have failed to make inroads in outer-suburban parts of Melbourne despite extensive campaigning on cost-of-living anger.

Meanwhile, Greens party leader Adam Bandt is at risk of losing his seat of Melbourne.

Our Victorian newsroom was out asking voters how they feel about that result: 

Labor will form a majority government after Anthony Albanese claimed a historic second term as prime minister in the federal election. 

The Labor Party made plenty of promises this year in its pitch for re-election, from Medicare to childcare.

But what exactly were they?

• You can find out with the link below.

The Greens say the seat of Richmond in northern NSW is too close to call, and is hopeful of a win, despite preferences revealing otherwise.

With more than 76 per cent of the vote counted, the race between Greens candidate Mandy Nolan and Labor's incumbent MP Justine Elliot is constantly changing.

ABC projections suggest Labor will finish first, but neither candidate would comment. 

In Adelaide, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said things are very complicated in the seat of Richmond.

"We are still holding out hope for her; we've just got to see what the preference flows come out with in the end." 

The independent candidate on track to win the blue ribbon Liberal seat of Bradfield in Sydney's north shore says Australians have voted to reject "negative, toxic politics".

Nicolette Boele is ahead of Gisele Kapterian, who replaced retiring Liberal member Paul Fletcher, by more than 1,600 votes with a 3.3 per cent swing.

Simon Holmes à Court, from the Climate 200 group that backed a number of independents, including Boele, told ABC local radio "she got it over the line this time".

But with no counting of votes happening today and the tally resuming on Monday, the tight race may take days to be resolved.

Here's the latest from Paulina Vidal and David Hirst:

Analysis by Brett Worthington 

Peter Dutton reminded voters time and time again that John Howard was his political hero.

In the end, his departure from federal politics was much like Howard's.

Dumped from his own electorate as voters repudiated his party at the ballot box, but unlike Howard — who was prime minister for 11 years, the second-longest in Australian political history — for Dutton the prime ministership was never to be.

Here's the full breakdown: 

MP Luke Gosling has defended his seat of Solomon for a fourth term against a strong challenge from the Country Liberal Party.

Labor's Matt Smith, who has claimed the marginal Far North Queensland seat of Leichhardt, says he'll take up an offer of advice from retiring Coalition MP Warren Entsch.

The 46-year-old former NBL basketballer for the Cairns Taipans is the first Labor candidate to win the seat since 2007.

"You cannot dismiss 30 years; he has got so many relationships up there and as he said to me in typical Warren fashion: 'I don't care about the bullshit politics Matty, I just care about the community'," Smith says. 

Mr Entsch said he was most disappointed the electorate would lose the expertise of his staff.

"[Matt Smith] asked me [for advice] and I've said yes, I'm happy to sit down with him and I'll always be available," he said.

"He can ask me the whys."

Reporting by Christopher Testa and Sophie McManus

Despite the catastrophic result for the Coalition as a whole, the Nationals have fared much better than their Liberal partners this election.

Votes are still being counted, but at this stage the party doesn't appear to have lost any seats — although the prospect of retaining one of its NSW Senate spots is looking increasingly unlikely.

That also doesn't count the NSW seat of Calare, which was held by the Nationals until MP Andrew Gee quit the party over its opposition to the Voice, turning it into an independent seat. He recontested this election and after a very bitter battle he's come out on top.

A potential gain remains a possibility for the Nationals, which have surprised many with a better-than-expected result in the Victorian seat of Bendigo. The Nationals have poured resources into the seat, campaigning on crime, cost of living and the failed Voice referendum. Labor insiders had said they were expecting a five per cent swing against them in the seat, but the reality has been far greater — with a 10.5 per cent swing from ALP at this stage. There are currently less than 1300 votes in it.

So what does this result mean for the Nationals?

Under the Coalition agreement between the Liberals and Nationals, the parties are allocated cabinet positions based on the proportion of MPs they each have elected to parliament.

Nationals insiders say it's too early to discuss how many spots they'll get in shadow cabinet, noting they were already over-represented in the last term, with Jacinta Nampijinpa Price taking on the Shadow Indigenous Australians portfolio after Julian Leeser quit the frontbench over the party's position on The Voice.

With many seats still on a knife-edge, the Coalition will wait to see where every seat lands before considering the division of portfolios.

Like many things in politics, it will then largely come down to simple mathematic.