SYDNEY, May 2 — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese campaigned in his conservative opponent Peter Dutton’s constituency on the final day before tomorrow’s election, with polls favouring the incumbent in a campaign overshadowed by Donald Trump’s volatile diplomacy.

Australia is among the few democracies with mandatory voting, and close to seven million out of an eligible 18 million voters had already cast a ballot by today at early voting centres or by postal voting, the Australian Electoral Commission said.

All published opinion polls show Albanese’s centre-left Labor ahead of the conservative Liberal-National coalition on a two-party preferred basis, although the polls also show that Labor could find itself leading a minority government.

Both major parties have focused on cost-of-living pressures and high housing costs, but polls show that global uncertainty driven by Trump’s stop-start tariffs rapidly became a top issue for voters during the campaign.