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Tasmania state election 2025: Voters hit polling booths alongside candidates, results as they happen
From candidates dressing up as a tuna dancing on the side of the highway to the best democracy sausages and first-time voters with famous dads — today’s state election day has it all. Get the latest updates and results as they happen.
Tasmanian voters look set for a long wait for the ultimate outcome of today’s unexpected and “unwanted” state election.
With neither side predicted to gain a decisive majority, who forms the state’s next government is likely to be decided in negotiations between the major parties, the Greens and the new crossbench well after polling day.
Read more from Mercury political editor David Killick here, and follow along with everything democracy sausage and as the results start flowing later tonight in our rolling blog below.
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