8:00 – Polls have just opened for election day for Tasmania’s 2025 state election.
I won’t be blogging during the day today, but I will be covering the results tonight in a separate live blog. I’m also going to try posting some updates on Instagram during the night, so please give me a follow over then.
We are expecting a record number of pre-poll votes in a state that has lagged behind the rest of the country in the shift towards early voting. We don’t have the same granular data that we would get at a federal election, but the TEC reported on Thursday that over 100,000 people had already voted pre-poll, before the last two days (presumably the busiest). About 82,000 votes were cast at pre-poll in 2024, and the electoral roll has about 412,000 people on them, so we’re looking at over a quarter of the electorate casting a pre-poll vote.