The counting of preferences under the Hare-Clark system is
finally over The outcome is unchanged from election predictions with
10-10-5. However the quirky vote saw elected MP's defeated by other candidates from their own party. Rebecca White came from behind to defeat Cabinet Minister David Llewelwyn in Lyons.Meander Valley mayor Mark Shelton was elected to join Rene Hidding. In Braddon The Greens won by electing Paul O'Halleran at the expense of Brett Whitely of the Liberals.
So it is a hung parliament and neither of the major parties will publicly entertain coalition with Nick Mc.Kim and the Greens. As I tweeted earlier, tomorrow we will see who blinks first. And I also don't expect that this Parliament will last 4 years and we probably will return to the polling booth in weeks or perhaps a half-year at the outside.
Certainly this has been the closest election in Tasmanian history. It still is unclear what will happen from here on. One thing
to clearly emerge is that the electorate wants fresh young faces in Tasmania's House of Assembly. The age of most of the members of the Upper House, known as the Legislative Council, is 20 to 30 years older than the Lower House.
We shall have to wait till tomorrow to find out what will happen next.
Robin 0903 UTC March 31st
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