Tasmania’s Legislative Council is elected by a unique voting system, with a small proportion of the fifteen seats up for election every year, with the entire state voting over the course of a six-year cycle.
This voting system tends to favour local independents over the major parties, with Labor currently holding four seats and the Liberal Party one, along with ten independents.
Two seats are up for election in 2018, and I’ve prepared guides for both contests.
This map shows the location of the two seats:
Hobart covers the inner city of Hobart, and was won in 2012 by left-leaning independent Rob Valentine, who is favourite to win in 2018.
Prosser is a new seat created out of parts of four other seats in the south-eastern corner of Tasmania. There is no incumbent MP, with an MP representing an abolished seat elsewhere in the state retiring this year. The seat has some strong Labor areas including Sorell, along with better Liberal areas further north. Prosser could go to either major party, or to a strong independent, and will be the first electoral test for the re-elected majority Liberal government.
My guide for Prosser:
http://kevinbonham.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/legislative-council-2018-prosser.html
Strongly rumoured that Tony Mulder (ex-Rumney MLC) is running.
There are now ten declared candidates for Prosser.
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