2025 Tasmanian State Election July 19th

The Tasmanian election has been called for Saturday July 19th. Tasmanians best bet for climate is a minority government with a progressive cross bench as a brake on state capture. The JLN in bed with the Liberals has been a disaster. Here is the election timetable. The electorate pages will gradually be populated as we find out who is standing.

Election timetable 2025

6pm 

Wednesday 18 June

Issue of the writs, close of enrolment, and candidate nominations open

12 noon 

Thursday 26 June

Candidate nominations close

12 noon 

Friday 27 June

Announcement of nominations  

8:30am 

Monday 30 June

Early voting commences

4pm 

Friday 11 July

Postal vote applications close

8am-6pm 

Saturday 19 July

Polling day

Find your elecorate here…

Bass/ Braddon/ Clark/ Franklin/ Lyons

The team at Vote Climate One encourages all candidates to support the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord to underpin any decisions in the Tasmanian parliament relating to action on the climate emergency.

Disclaimer

We take the assessment of independents seriously and, in regard to this election, very seriously. Their potential role holding the balance of power in a minority government could be exactly what the doctor ordered for climate action. Sometimes, though, it is very difficult to find appropriate contact details for these candidates. Consequently,we apply the precautionary principle and use a initial Red Light ranking. During the pre-polling period (up to Monday June 30th) these rankings can be adjusted if evidence of commitment to urgent action on global warming becomes evident. Please contact Rob on 0427 580803 if there are good reasons to change a candidate’s Traffic Light ranking. Our team is committed to supporting progressive independents.

Prepolling in the Tasmanian starts on Monday June 30th.

We are assessing all political parties and independent candidates. Candidates who are standing under a party banner are assessed with their party ranking. Please contact us if you have information which will help us with the assessment process. Phone Rob on 0427580803.

Any candidate who is prepared to formally support the 3Rs and the Climate Rescue Accord is automatically ranked as an outstanding Green Light candidate in regard to our voting advice.

In a state election local issues are paramount for candidates and electors. The The failure to stop old growth logging, the AFL stadium fiasco and the failure to accomodate docking facilities for the new ferry are three examples. Nevertheless our assessment is purely about climate and ecological breakdown. Consequently, our advice is for those electors who want to be confident that their preferred representatives will stand up for climate action when relevant legislation comes before the Tasmanian parliament. Yes local issues are important but the science is screaming at us that our very survival is dependent on treating global warming as an emergency. Preference Green Light Candidates first in order of your choice. Preference orange light candidates next and lastly preference Red Light candiates . They are generally a dangerous choice for effective action to stop global warming.

Vote like your Life depends on it!

Dr Hall reports in our Climate Sentinel News that the flood of climate records broken over the last year shows that we have unleashed several kinds of positive feedbacks driving runaway warming. This presents a truly existential emergency on a global scale. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS if we don’t stop and reverse the warming. Humans will soon be extinct if we fail. 

Global mobilization is urgently required to have any chance to achieve this before societies begin to collapse under the weight of cascading sequences of extreme weather events as our planet grows hotter, faster and faster. Because special interests have captured our major political parties to control governments for their benefit, they are doing everything they can to prevent effective responses to the climate emergency that might harm these interests. 

Climate Rescue Accord is working to promote and publicise the kinds of actions that need to be mobilized, and Vote Climate One is doing what we can to help and show people how to change governments by replacing their unrepresentative parliamentarians with genuine climate aware and progressive representatives able to lead the necessary policy changes and implementations.