Financial disclosure return information for the 2025 federal election, held on 3 May 2025, is now available for public inspection.
This includes returns from:
- Candidates
- Senate groups
- Election donors.
The return information is available on the AEC's Transparency Register at https://transparency.aec.gov.au/ .
The returns cover donations, electoral expenditure, and discretionary benefits by candidates and unendorsed (or jointly endorsed) Senate groups that contested the 2025 federal election. Of the 1,456 candidates who contested the federal election, a total of 1,425 have lodged returns. Of these, 1,042 candidates lodged nil returns.
In addition, 9 Senate group returns were lodged, 8 of which were nil returns.
A further 74 donor returns were also lodged.
Note: Candidates endorsed by a registered political party may submit a 'nil return' and roll their reporting into the annual return for their party if those financial transactions were the responsibility of a party committee. Political party return information for the 2024-25 financial year will be available for public inspection on Monday, 2 February 2026.
What is the Transparency Register?
The Transparency Register is a searchable database of financial disclosure information. It includes a data-export function to enable users to undertake additional analysis of the data outside of the Transparency Register.
