The 2022 Tasmanian local elections were held in October 2022 to elect the councils of the 29
local government areas
A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a state, province, division, or territory.
The ph ...
(LGAs) in
Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
, Australia. Mayoral and deputy mayoral elections were also held.
For the first time in Tasmanian local elections, voting was
compulsory. Polls opened on 3 October and closed at 2pm on Tuesday, 25 October.
Electoral system
Councillor elections are conducted using a slightly modified version of the
Hare-Clark electoral system, which is also used for
Tasmanian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Tasmanian Legislative Council, Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House, Hobart, Parliament Hou ...
elections.
Mayors and deputy mayors are elected using
preferential voting
Preferential voting or preference voting (PV) may refer to different election systems or groups of election systems:
* Any electoral system that allows a voter to indicate multiple preferences where preferences marked are weighted or used as cont ...
, which is used for
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two Chambers of parliament, chambers of the Parliament, the other being the Tasmanian House of Assembly, House of Assembly. Both ho ...
elections.
The
Robson Rotation is used to rotate the order in which candidate names appear on ballot papers. All voting in Tasmanian local elections is conducted by post.
Elections timeline
* 5 September – Candidate nominations open
* 19 September – Candidate nominations close
* 3 October – Voting opens
* 25 October – Voting closes
* 26 October – Counting begins
Party changes before elections
A number of councillors joined or left parties before the 2022 elections.
Campaign
A number of
local tickets were formed to contest elections. In
Hobart
Hobart ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly hal ...
,
Our Hobart and
Your Hobart Independents (YHI) were formed, with councillors Mike Dutta,
Anna Reynolds and Zelinda Sherlock joining the YHI ticket. In
Kingborough, three independents stood as
Kingborough Thrives candidates.
Former
Liberal Democrats NSW senator
Duncan Spender stood in Hobart as a deputy mayoral and council candidate.
Four mayoral elections, along with one deputy mayoral election, were uncontested, as well as the entire
King Island council election.
Results
Mayoral elections
Mayors in italics did not recontest their positions.
Deputy mayoral elections
Deputy mayors in italics did not recontest their positions.
Aftermath
Former
Nationals senator
Steve Martin
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was elected as a councillor in
Devonport, giving the party an elected representative for the first time since he lost re-election at the
2019 federal election.
, the mother of
Liberal senator
Jonathon Duniam, became the first female mayor of
Waratah-Wynyard.
mayor Danny Gibson resigned in May 2023, just months after being elected, following "vile attacks, stemming from media reports".
By-elections and countbacks
The
Tasmanian Electoral Commission
The Tasmanian Electoral Commission (TEC) in Tasmania, Australia, established in 2005, is an independent office which conducts parliamentary and Local government in Tasmania, local government elections in Tasmania. Elections for the Tasmanian Hous ...
has held a number of
by-elections
A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections.
A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ...
and
countbacks to fill vacancies on councils since the 2022 elections.
Mayoral by-elections
Councillor by-elections
Countbacks
See also
*
2022 Hobart City Council election
Notes
References
{{Tasmanian elections
Local elections in Tasmania
2022 elections in Australia