section_path: Prime Minister of Australia (2022–present)/Second term, 2025–present
section_name: Second term, 2025–present
paragraph_text: Second term, 2025–present
  
  On 28 March 2025, Albanese called a federal election for 3 May. The first week of campaigning was dominated by the imposition of tariffs on Australia by U.S. President Donald Trump, to which Albanese responded by urging Australians to buy locally made products. He participated in a Sky News debate against Opposition Leader Peter Dutton on 8 April, which he narrowly won according to a poll of 100 undecided voters interviewed by Sky. He took part in three further debates with Dutton over the course of the campaign. On 13 April, Albanese launched Labor's campaign, announcing flagship policies to aid first home-buyers by allowing them to buy a house with a five percent deposit and build 100,000 homes exclusively for first-time home purchasers. The predominant issues of the campaign were cost-of-living, housing affordability, healthcare and immigration.
  
  Albanese led his government to a landslide victory at the election, defying a global anti-incumbency surge and becoming the first prime minister since John Howard at the 2004 election to lead his government to re-election. Several media outlets attributed Albanese's victory to anti-Donald Trump sentiment and drew parallels to the 2025 Canadian federal election, which saw similar results for the incumbent Canadian Liberal Party. Labor gained 17 seats to hold a total of 94 seats in the House of Representatives, the joint most seats ever held by a party in federal Parliament, tied with Howard's Coalition government in the 1996 election. Labor also retained every seat they occupied prior to the election, making Albanese's government the first to retain all of its seats since Harold Holt 's Coalition in 1966. The second Albanese ministry was sworn in on 13 May 2025.