Premier Daniel Andrews has pledged to deliver on his government's "positive and optimistic plan" after his party's election win.
Look back at our live blog to see how the night unfolded.
Key events
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Live updates
Where you can follow Victoria's vote count
By Joseph Dunstan
On ABC TV and iview, you can follow our broadcast coverage from 6pm, led by Tamara Oudyn, election analyst Antony Green and David Speers.
Our state political reporters Richard Willingham and Bridget Rollason will join the team to offer their insights on the state's decision.
On ABC Radio Melbourne, Virginia Trioli will host rolling coverage from 6.30pm.
You can follow all the voting tallies as they come in on our results page.
And of course, here on our live blog, Ashleigh Barraclough and I will be working to bring you the latest as it comes in.
We'll close the live blog here
By Ashleigh Barraclough
We're now wrapping up our live blog coverage of the 2022 Victorian election. Thanks everyone who followed along!
You can keep track of further results as they come in via the ABC results page.
This includes results for the Upper House, which we haven't addressed much tonight given the low number of ballots that have been counted.
Liberal Party left to pick up pieces after election defeat
By Ashleigh Barraclough
The result for the Liberals tonight was worse than many had predicted, but Matthew Guy hasn't yet said what the loss means for his leadership of the party.
Yara Murray-Atfield's wrapped up tonight's result for the Liberals.
'Dan slam': The front pages of tomorrow's papers
By Ashleigh Barraclough
The Age and the Herald Sun have posted their front pages for tomorrow on Twitter.
Daniel Andrews thanks Victorians
By Ashleigh Barraclough
Dan Andrews posted his thanks to Twitter to the state which re-elected him for a third term.
Liberal MP retains Polwarth
By Ashleigh Barraclough
The seat of Polwarth is being projected for Liberal MP Richard Riordan, despite previously looking in doubt.
Independent gets down to Dolly Parton
By Ashleigh Barraclough
While South-West Coast is being projected for the Liberals, independent candidate Carol Altmann wasn't taking herself too seriously earlier in the night.
The independent posted a funky video to her Facebook of herself dancing to Dolly Parton's 9 to 5.
Altmann had been considered the biggest rival to Liberal candidate Roma Britnell.
'Absolute vindication for Andrews'
By Ashleigh Barraclough
Some analysis from ABC journalists Richard Willingham and Raf Epstein, as we wrap up our coverage.
Read about what the election means for the Greens
By Ashleigh Barraclough
A major development from today's results was the success of the Greens.
You can read about it in this article by Yara Murray-Atfield.
ABC's TV coverage wraps up for the night
By Ashleigh Barraclough
ABC's television coverage of the election has now finished.
For a recap of the night's events, my colleague Yara Murray-Atfield has put together a handy wrap.
Premier 'absolutely intends to serve the next four years'
By Joseph Dunstan
Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan rebuffs the idea of succeeding Premier Daniel Andrews before his four-year term is up.
"The Premier's made it clear ... he absolutely intends to serve the next four years and I'm very confident the caucus will be very pleased with that," she says.
"This is an historic night for Labor.
"To win a third term on a fixed four-year election cycle has never been done before."
Liberal Party needs to connect with 'core values', strategist says
By Joseph Dunstan
Former Labor campaigner Kos Samaras says the Liberal Party needs to have a deep moment of reflection after tonight's result.
"They are possibly a political movement that no longer talks to a significant number of Victorians, full stop," he says.
"Political parties come and go, it's a historical fact, and I think the Liberal Party has been pitching to a particular constituency that doesn't really live in Victoria all that much."
Ms Samaras says the outcome in Polwarth showed the Liberal Party was in trouble when younger, educated people became dominant in seats.
Former Liberal campaigner Tony Barry says values are more important than policies and it's a lesson the party needs to learn.
"We need to get back to those core values and communicate those shared values and they have to be the shared values of the community," he says.
"We need to be representative of the community, we need a better cross-section of the community in our partyroom and I think that will go a long way to connecting those values to the community."
Daniel Andrews's entrance in pictures
By Ashleigh Barraclough
Some more pictures are coming in from Premier Daniel Andrews's entrance to Labor HQ, with his family.
Liberal seat of Croydon at risk of falling to Labor
By Joseph Dunstan
Another seat Labor is threatening to scoop up from the Liberals is Croydon, in Melbourne's east.
If it comes to pass, it would be another blow to the Liberal Party, as it would leave another senior MP, David Hodgett, without a spot in parliament.
The party is already set to lose Ripon MP Louise Staley.
Premier's speech swiped anti-vaccination politics
By Joseph Dunstan
State political reporter Richard Willingham says it's interesting the Premier opened his speech by underscoring that vaccinations work.
"I think there was a bit of a backhander there to people who have been campaigning against him directly who may have the anti-vax slant," he says.
"And I think there's probably also a bit of a backhander there I think to the Coalition, who in Labor's view, probably coseyed up to those anti-vaxxers, not everyone in the Liberal Party, but some people."
'We will govern for all Victorians'
By Joseph Dunstan
"We will govern for all Victorians," Premier Daniel Andrews says at the end of his speech.
"No matter how you voted, no matter what your views or opinions, that's what our job is.
"We take our job seriously, because Labor does what matters."
Premier thanks union, staff
By Joseph Dunstan
Premier Daniel Andrews thanks the trade union movement for its support and offers personal thanks to staffers Lissie Ratcliff and Jessie McCrone and campaign director Chris Ford.
After more thanks to individuals, Mr Andrews thanks the people in his electorate of Mulgrave and campaign chairman and outgoing senior Labor MP James Merlino.
"Community-based campaigning matters, I'm looking at it right now," he says, prompting more cheers from the room.
Mr Andrews then thanks "the strongest person I know".
"My wife and my best friend Catherine," he says.
Premier outlines the promises for third term
By Joseph Dunstan
Daniel Andrews says his government put forward a "positive and optimistic plan".
He talks up the government's pledges around free kinder, expanded free TAFE courses, and recruiting nurses and paramedics.
He adds school and hospital builds, before announcing that most importantly, it involves "bringing back the SEC [State Electricity Commission]".
The crowd erupts into chants of "S-E-C, S-E-C!"
"These big companies have told us they are leaving, and goodbye to them," Andrews says.
'We were united' during pandemic, Andrews says
By Joseph Dunstan
Turning to the pandemic, Mr Andrews suggests the state was not, as some commentators have suggested, "divided".
"We were instead united in our faith in science and in our faith and care for and in each other," he says.
"That too, that sense of kindness, that sense of connection ... has been confirmed today as well.
"Friends, hope always defeats hate."
'Leadership is about doing what's right'
By Joseph Dunstan
Daniel Andrews opens by quoting Paul Keating, who he says told him:
"Son, leadership isn't about doing what's popular. Leadership is about doing what's right."
Cheers erupt as Mr Andrews declares the state has endorsed a government that does "what matters".
