2024 Tasmanian state election

2024 Tasmanian state election

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All 35 seats in the House of Assembly 18 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered	408,197
Turnout	372,077 (91.2% 1.2)
First party Second party   Leader Jeremy Rockliff Rebecca White Party Liberal Labor Leader since 8 April 2022 7 July 2021 Leader's seat Braddon Lyons Last election 13 seats, 48.7% 9 seats, 28.2% Seats before 11[a] 8[b] Seats won 14 10 Seat change 3 2 Popular vote 127,837 101,113 Percentage 36.7% 29.0% Swing 12.1 0.8   Third party Fourth party   Leader Rosalie Woodruff Jacqui Lambie Party Greens Lambie Network Leader since 13 July 2023 14 May 2015 Leader's seat Franklin Did not contest[c] Last election 2 seats, 12.4% Did not contest Seats before 2 0 Seats won 5 3 Seat change 3 3 Popular vote 48,430 23,260 Percentage 13.9% 6.7% Swing 1.5 6.7
Results of the election
Premier before election Jeremy Rockliff Liberal Elected Premier Jeremy Rockliff Liberal

The 2024 Tasmanian state election was held on 23 March 2024 to elect all 35 members to the House of Assembly.

The House of Assembly uses the proportional Hare-Clark system of voting, with the 35 members elected from five seven-member constituencies. The Assembly's size was increased from 25 to 35 seats at this election, under the provisions of the Expansion of House of Assembly Act 2022, assented to in December 2022.^[2][3] The election was conducted by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission. Elections for the 15-seat single-member district upper house, known as the Legislative Council, which use full-preference instant-runoff voting, are staggered each year and conducted separately from lower house state elections.

The Liberal government, led by Premier Jeremy Rockliff, and the Labor opposition, led by Rebecca White, both attempted to win majority government. The Greens and the Jacqui Lambie Network also contested the election, as well as several independents and other minor parties.

The election resulted in a hung parliament, with the Liberal Party remaining the largest party by both vote share and seat total; winning 14 seats. Labor and the Greens won 10 and five seats respectively, with both parties experiencing only a small increase in their respective vote percentages, despite a large swing against the Liberal Party. The majority of the swing went to independents and the Jacqui Lambie Network, who won three seats in its first state election. Both major parties fell short of a majority, with the Liberals and Labor requiring four and eight seats respectively from the crossbench to form government.^[4]

The day after the election, Labor conceded and its leader Rebecca White stated the party would not seek to negotiate with other MPs to form a government, triggering a leadership election.^[5] On 10 April, the Liberal Party and Jacqui Lambie Network announced an agreement had been reached for the latter to provide confidence and supply to the government.^[6] The second Rockliff ministry was sworn in the following day with Independent MP David O'Byrne providing written assurance of confidence and supply, giving the Liberal party the numbers required to form government.^[7][8]

Ultimately, both O'Byrne and fellow independent Kristie Johnston signed confidence and supply agreements with the government, giving it 19 of the 35 votes on the floor of the parliament.^[9] It was the first time that a non-Labor party in Tasmania had won a fourth consecutive term in government since adopting the Liberal banner in 1945.^[10]

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