Overview

• About one-quarter of Tasmania’s enrolled voters have cast early ballots, marking a 30,000-vote increase from the same point in 2024
• Recent DemosAU and other polls forecast neither Liberals nor Labor will win the 18 seats needed for a majority under the Hare-Clark system
• Both Jeremy Rockliff’s coalition and Dean Winter’s Labor have pledged to build a $975 million Macquarie Point Stadium despite opposition from Greens and some independents
• Labor’s Dean Winter promises 10 government-funded TassieDoc clinics within two years with a resignation pledge if unmet, while Rockliff has committed to five clinics plus cost-of-living relief measures
• Governor Barbara Baker may need to invoke Section 8B of the Constitution Act to appoint a government within seven days of the writs’ return if no party commands a majority