With the federal election now done and dusted, the ABC's You Ask, We Answer campaign is wrapping up.

Over seven weeks, we took hundreds of your questions on everything from donkey votes to pension payments and put them to our journalists to investigate on TV, radio and online.

Then on election night you flooded us with questions as the results poured in.

Here's what you asked across the day and how some of you predicted Labor's leadership change.

When polls opened, you were keen to make your vote count

While many of you spent election morning looking for last-minute information on the political parties and their policies, the overwhelming majority of you were more concerned about casting a formal vote.

A whopping 77 per cent of the questions we received over the entire election weekend were about voting and the election process.

For some though, just making it to a polling station was still a concern:

"My daughter and I are both full of the flu and can't get out of bed. What should we do?" — Rita Briffa from Queensland

FYI: While Australians can be fined $20 for failing to vote in a federal election, the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) says those with "valid and sufficient" reasons will not be penalised.

Then once polls closed, you were eager for an early result

But the huge numbers of pre-poll votes meant you'd be waiting a while.

Days before the election the AEC warned a record number of Australians had already cast their vote and that would likely delay the count.

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But as the results began to trickle in, you wondered why those pre-poll votes couldn't be counted ahead of time:

"Why are pre-polling votes not counted early prior to election day?" — David Witzke from Tasmania

"Pre-polling is not a mystery. Why doesn't the AEC just hire the right number of people to count the number of votes?" — Peter from Victoria

According to the ABC's chief elections analyst Antony Green, the law doesn't allow votes to be counted before 6:00pm on election day.

"Any ballot box opened before 6:00pm on election night can have its votes voided. Maybe the law should be changed, but no Electoral Commissioner would consider breaking the law," he tweeted.

Speaking of Green, you also wanted to know how he could call seats so quickly, with only a small fraction of the vote counted.

Green designed the ABC's election computer after completing both a degree in economics and in pure mathematics and computer science.

"I can override individual results or modify how preferences work in individual seats, but essentially the formula we implemented back in the early 1990s still makes the vast majority of seat calls," he said.

Even before the ABC had called the result, you predicted a Labor change

Nearly all opinion polls predicted an easy win for Labor.

But from about 7:00pm — just over two hours before Green called the election at 9.30pm — you appeared to have an inkling a change was in the air for the Labor camp.

We received 200 questions about party leadership over the course of the night, with the majority of you asking about Labor.

"Obviously it's too early, and pre-polls haven't been counted, however do you think Shorten will be replaced if the Labor party loses this election?" — Billy from Victoria

"If Labor lose the election tonight, who will replace Bill Shorten as leader of the Labor Party? — Anthony Frazer from New South Wales

Then after Mr Shorten conceded and announced he'd be stepping down as leader of the Labor Party, speculation quickly turned to who the front runners might be.

"Penny Wong — if Shorten loses this election and steps down, will you lead the party? I am a young liberal but would vote for you in the next election." — Luke Goedee from New South Wales

"Do you think Labor would have better chances in the election if the party was led by Tanya Plibersek?" — Michael from Victoria

"Do you think Labor would've romped it in if Albo [Anthony Albanese] was the leader? I voted Liberal simply because Shorten seems hollow, insincere and he is the Frank Underwood of Australia." — Shaz Brown from New South Wales

Then you asked: what happens now?

In reaction to the election call, some of you suggested the results indicated Australia was following in the footsteps of America and Britain with a rise in the conservative vote.

"How much do you think the shift in the electorate (working seats to LNP) mirrors the rise of right-wing parties globally? Is this trend worrying for our multicultural country?" — Gabrielle from New South Wales

Others got straight to questioning what the incoming government would do to address immigration and housing prices.

"Do you think the Government will reconsider its immigration policy and stop playing on the lives of migrants?" — Farid Subhanverdiyev from ACT

"What effect will this result have on real estate? Will prices fall further in Sydney and Melbourne?" — Sourav from Victoria

Finally, the environment remained a talking point.

"When will there be a bipartisan approach to addressing climate change? As a young voter, I am highly disillusioned at the potential of this being ignored for another three years." — Lily Baitup from Western Australia