How does Logies voting work? How the winners are chosen in 2025.

Dapper suits, glittering gowns, loads of drama: can you feel it? The 2025 TV WEEK Logie Awards are fast approaching.

With the Logies set to air on August 3, many Aussie TV fans are ready to cast their vote for their favourite stars and shows. But how do they do it?

Here's everything you need to know about Logies voting, and how the winners are selected.

What are the Logie Award categories?

Previously, the Logie Awards were split into two different categories: Most Popular and Most Outstanding.

The 11 Most Popular Awards were voted for by fans, while 12 Most Outstanding Awards were voted on by a select group of industry experts.

This explains why the Most Popular Awards would often go to big shows like MAFS, Home and Away and Neighbours, while Most Outstanding would often go to smaller productions that might not have such huge followings, but were truly excellent and deserving.

But last year, they made some changes, and the decision received mixed reviews from Logie-lovers when it was revealed in 2024.

They kept the Most Popular category for only three awards: The Most Popular News and Current Affairs Reporter, Most Popular Presenter and Most Popular New Talent. Plus the Gold Logie, which technically sits in the 'Most Popular' category. They also scrapped the Most Outstanding categories.

Instead, they created a "Best" category that combines elements of both Popular and Outstanding voting practices for 20 more categories. That's a total of 23.

Winners of the "Best" awards are decided by a combined score: a score from judges, according to the set assessment criteria (30 per cent), supplied audience data (20 per cent) and a certain number of Australian public votes (50 per cent).

And if you're thinking, 'Well that's confusing', correct! It is! But that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Adding another layer of complexity, the judging panel is no longer made up only by objective industry experts. It's now made up of several different types of experts: 20 representatives from each broadcaster (which includes networks and streaming services), plus a panel composed of members of the media and other industry experts and professionals.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that there will be checks and balances in place to ensure the judges don't just... vote for their own shows.

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How can you vote for the Logies?

Voting closed at 7pm AEST Friday, August 1, 2025 for all categories excluding the Bert Newton Award for the Most Popular Presenter, Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent and the Ray Martin Award for Most Popular News or Public Affairs Reporter. Voting for those three 'Most Popular' categories will close 7:30pm AEST Sunday, August 3 – the night of the Logies.

Additionally, voting for the TV WEEK Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television will close Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 10:30pm AEST.

It'll keep things nice and complicated, all the way up to the final moments.

Fans can cast their vote here.

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