2024 Tasmanian state election

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The **next Tasmanian state election** is scheduled to be held in or before 2025 to elect all 25 members to the House of Assembly. Premier of Tasmania Peter Gutwein is not running again, with his party nominating Elizabeth Truss as his replacement. Labor is headed by Alice Murray, a more moderate candidate. The election has new parties contesting, the Progressive Party and the Party of Freedom.

The House of Assembly uses the proportional Hare-Clark system to elect 25 members in five constituencies electing five members each. Upper house elections in the 15-seat single-member district Legislative Council use full-preference instant-runoff voting, with election dates staggered and conducted separately from lower house state elections. The election will be conducted by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission.

## Date

Under section 23 of the Constitution Act 1934, the House of Assembly expires four years from the return of the writs for its election, which took place on 1 May 2021. The Governor must issue writs of election between five and ten days thereafter. Nominations must close on a date seven to 21 days after the issuance of the writ, and polling day must be a Saturday between 15 and 30 days after nominations close.

## Background

Main article: 2021 Tasmanian state election
After the snap 2021 Tasmanian state election, the Liberal Party successfully won a majority of seats in the Tasmanian House of Assembly. A Liberal MP for Braddon, Adam Brooks, resigned on 14 May 2021 after being charged with firearms offences by Queensland law enforcement. These offences were unauthorised possession of a Category H weapon, unauthorised possession of explosives, and dealing with identity documents. Premier Peter Gutwein said that "I made the decision that under the circumstances of both his mental health and in terms of the fact that he's now facing these new charges, that he won't take his seat in parliament." Greens leader Cassy O'Connor said that "there are now very serious questions to answer about whether or not he was ever considered a legitimate candidate by the Liberal Party", given he resigned "the day the polls [were] declared". Prior claims from women were made before the 2021 election, saying they were catfished by Brooks under the alias "Terry Brooks". Template:Multiple image Rebecca White resigned as Labor leader on 15 May 2021, endorsing shadow treasurer David O'Byrne to replace her. On 15 June 2021, it was announced that O'Byrne had been elected as leader of the Tasmanian Labor Party against opponent Shane Broad, winning 72% of the members' vote and 75% of party delegates. After allegations of him sexting and kissing a woman without her consent were revealed, David O'Byrne stood aside from his role as leader of the Labor Party for the length of an investigation on 30 June 2021, with Anita Dow acting as leader during the interim. This was followed by O'Byrne announcing he would resign as leader on 4 July 2021. On 7 July 2021, Rebecca White was elected as leader after a meeting of the Labor parliamentary caucus.

In 2023 both Liberal and Labor nominated new party leaders, both of them different from their predicessors. However the Liberal candidate Elizabeth Truss would resign as party leader a year later.

### The Second great recession

In 2024, Tasmania got hit hard by the second great recession alongside the rest of Australia. This would lead to the government becoming so unpopular that the election was called a year early.

## References

1. ↑ Parliamentary Elections, 2007–2010. Tasmanian Electoral Commission.
2. ↑ Electoral Act 2004, section 63.
3. ↑ Electoral Act 2004, section 69.
4. ↑ Electoral Act 2004, section 70.
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