2022 Australian federal election
(Tasmania)

←  2019 21 May 2022
All 5 Tasmanian seats in the Australian House of Representatives and 6 seats in the Australian Senate
First party Second party   Leader Anthony Albanese Scott Morrison Party Labor Liberal Last election 2 seats 2 seats Seats won 2 2 Seat change Popular vote 95,322 115,184 Percentage 27.26% 32.94% Swing 6.35 2.31 TPP 54.33% 45.67% TPP swing 1.63 1.63
Results by division for the House of Representatives, shaded by winning party's margin of victory.

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This is a list of electoral division results for the 2022 Australian federal election in the state of Tasmania.

This election was held using instant-runoff voting. In Tasmania in this election, there was one "turn-over". In Lyons, a Labor candidate who did not lead in the first count took the seat in the end, albeit very marginally. The Liberal candidate finished first before the distribution of preferences.

Tasmania was unique at this election in that the Liberal Party, led by previous Prime Minister Scott Morrison, had an increased vote share, while the Labor Party, led by subsequent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, had a decreased vote share.

Overall results

House of Representatives ( IRV) – Turnout 92.43% ( CV)

Party			Votes	%	Swing (pp)	Seats	Change (seats)
	Liberal Party of Australia		115,184	32.94	+2.31	2
	Australian Labor Party		95,322	27.26	−6.35	2
	Australian Greens		41,972	12.00	+1.88	0
	Jacqui Lambie Network		23,730	6.79	+6.79	0
	Pauline Hanson's One Nation		13,970	3.99	+1.20	0
	United Australia Party		6,437	1.84	−3.01	0
	Liberal Democratic Party		5,064	1.45	+1.45	0
	Animal Justice Party		4,772	1.36	+0.88	0
	Local Party		4,254	1.22	+1.22	0
	Independent		38,993	11.50	−1.84	1
Total			349,698			5
Invalid/blank votes			21,734	5.85	+1.46	–	–
Turnout			371,432	92.43	–1.91	–	–
Registered voters			401,852	–	–	–	–
Two-party-preferred vote
	Labor		189,993	54.33	−1.63	–	–
	Liberal		159,705	45.67	+1.63	–	–
Source: AEC for both votes and seats

Results by division

Bass

Braddon

Clark

Franklin

Lyons

Analysis

Unlike mainland Australia, Tasmania saw the Liberal Party perform better than they did at the last election (where they gained two seats from Labor).

Some have suggested that the Coalition's performance in Tasmania improved due to the state's own Liberal government, which has been in power since 2014 under Will Hodgman, Peter Gutwein and Jeremy Rockliff, with the latter being the incumbent. At the time of the election, there were only two states with Liberal or Coalition governments: New South Wales and Tasmania. Following the defeat of New South Wales' three-term-incumbent Coalition government in 2023 under Dominic Perrottet (which saw Labor returning to power in a minority government for the first time in 12 years), Tasmania is currently the only state or territory in Australia to have a Liberal government.

In the primary vote, Labor had a swing against them of 6.35%, receiving less than 100,000 first preference votes. This was also the biggest swing to or against a major party in any state or territory except Western Australia. The Coalition technically had a swing against them of 1.66% given the fact that both the Liberals and the Nationals fielded candidates in Tasmania at the last election, but the Liberal Party saw a swing to them of 2.31% due to the absence of the Nationals. Labor had swings against them in the primary vote in every Tasmanian seat. While the Liberals did have relatively small swings against them in the primary vote in the seats of Bass, Clark and Franklin, they had a swing of over 8% to them in Braddon and a swing of over 12% to them in Lyons.

The Liberal Party won the seats of Bass and Braddon with increased majorities. In the highly marginal seat of Bass, Liberal MP Bridget Archer broke its trend of flipping at each election and won a second term. Braddon, which was traditionally a marginal seat, returned incumbent MP Gavin Pearce with a greatly increased majority. Labor retained the seat of Franklin with an increased majority, but almost lost Lyons, where the Liberal Party had a higher first-preference vote than Labor. Independent Andrew Wilkie, who was first elected to Clark in 2010, retained the seat with an increased majority.

Tasmania was the only state where the Coalition had a swing to them in the two-party-preferred vote, while Labor had a swing against them.

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