2025 Tasmanian Election

LAST UPDATED: 12noon, Tuesday 8 June 2025

Tasmania remains in a cost of living crisis, with many households struggling to afford the basics and anxious about their financial security, the direction of our state and the future for their children. 

This election provides all parties and candidates an opportunity to reset and renew focus on the issues that really matter to Tasmanians.

When we speak to Tasmanians, they tell us a safe, affordable place to call home, action on the cost of living, and ensuring our children are safe and supported are the issues that matter most.

During this election campaign, TasCOSS is calling on all political leaders to demonstrate brave and bold leadership in order to create much needed change, with a focus on investing in Tasmanians and their wellbeing.

There is an urgent need for a sustainable community services industry to deliver essential support to Tasmanians in need — whether that’s providing emergency housing, support to women fleeing violence, food relief for families doing it tough, mental health support or literacy and digital skills.  

Right now, people are missing out on these essential supports, as community services are forced to turn people away because they don’t have the funding and resources to support everyone looking for help.

Investing in people, as well as the services that support them, will result in a healthier population, better outcomes and cost savings for government.  

2025 Tasmanian Election Priorities
TasCOSS’s 2025 Tasmanian Election Priorities (PDF, 3.48MB) statement focusses on industry sustainability and proposes a number of evidence-informed recommendations that better target government spending to improve the wellbeing of Tasmanians. 

  1. Prioritising community services industry sustainability 
  2. Improving the state of Tasmania’s housing 
  3. Bringing down household energy costs 
  4. Transforming child and youth safety 
  5. Closing the digital divide 
  6. Keeping Tasmanians healthy 

TasCOSS has shared our election platform with all parties and candidates and relevant updates will be made available on this webpage.

Resources and Assistance with Election Advocacy
TasCOSS has prepared an Advocacy Toolkit for Organisations and Individuals (PDF, 135KB) tailored to the 2025 Tasmanian Election. This resource covers off on a range of lobbying activities you can engage in individually or on behalf of your organisation to influence candidates and political parties. 

Stay Up-to-Date throughout the Election Campaign
In the lead-up to election day, we’ll keep you up-to-date via email and through our social media channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, X). To ensure you receive all of our campaign updates, please subscribe to our mailing list.

If your organisation has a election platform you’d like us to share for inclusion on this page, please let us know by emailing us.

Voting Requirements
Tasmania has five (5) electoral divisions: Bass, Braddon, Clark, Franklin and Lyons. For each division, seven (7) members will be elected to serve a term of office of up to four (4) years.

Voting is compulsory for every elector that is entitled to vote. The Tasmanian Electoral Commission (TEC) reminds electors that they need to number at least seven (7) boxes when they vote in the upcoming election.

You can vote in-person at a polling place on polling day. If you are unable do this, you need to vote early. There will be pre-poll voting centres available at various locations in Tasmania from Monday 30 June 2025.

If you are unable to vote in-person, either early or on polling day, you may be eligible to vote by post. To apply, you must complete and return an application form. Applications close at 4pm, Friday 11 July 2025. Postal ballot packs will be sent to approved applicants commencing Monday 30 June 2025. If you are interstate and overseas, telephone voting may be the most accessible option for you.

Answers to common questions about voting, enrolment, employment, campaigning and more can be found on the TEC website.

The key dates for the election are:

  • 6pm, Wednesday 18 June 2025: Issue of the writs, close of enrolment and candidate nominations open
  • 12noon, Thursday 26 June 2025: Candidate nominations close                       
  • 12noon, Friday 27 June 2025: Announcement of nominations
  • 8:30am, Monday 30 June 2025: Early voting commences
  • 4pm, Friday 11 July 2025: Postal vote applications close
  • 8am-6pm, Saturday 19 July 2025: Polling day

The Tasmanian Coalition of Community Service Peaks calls on the incoming state government to build a strong partnership with the state’s community services industry to ensure no Tasmanian misses out on essential supports.

In the lead up to the 2025 Tasmanian Election, 16 community service peaks have released a joint statement urging all candidates and parties to ‘Prioritise all Tasmanians’ and articulate how they will, if elected, build a sustainable community services industry now, for the future. Read the joint statement.

Every day we see the pain being experienced — Tasmanians are hurting in this cost of living crisis. They are worried about housing, health and education, and costs associated with rent, energy, transport and food and their general wellbeing is under threat.

This campaign is about more than just Tasmanians doing it tough — we want to ensure that all Tasmanians have what they need on the ground.

Our industry delivers essential services to Tasmanians in need. Essential services such as emergency food relief, domestic, family and sexual violence support, children and family services, mental health assistance, and services that support people experiencing homelessness.

Community services is the largest and fastest growing industry in Tasmania. Our 28,000 highly skilled workers and 46,000 volunteers work hard every day to support Tasmanians, and in doing so add $1.9 billion annually to the state’s economy.

If any government is serious about trying to improve outcomes for Tasmanians, the community services industry is the most important partner. We are talking about an investment in wellbeing and preventing more Tasmanians seeking acute and crisis services.

By working together, the industry can collectively support Tasmanians, retain our staff who deserve secure employment, and have certainty to make longer-term decisions that deliver better value for money.

Tasmanian Coalition of Community Services Peaks 2025 Election Priorities:

  1. Fast-track the implementation of five year funding contracts across the industry.
  2. Implement funding review processes, at least six months before the end date of a contract.
  3. Commit to an indexation figure that reflects the true cost of doing business.
  4. Provide a commitment to reset the relationship with the community services industry through a Partnership Agreement with the Tasmanian Coalition of Community Service Peaks and the Tasmanian Government, based on respect and collaboration.
We need your support!

We’d love for you to get involved with this campaign and lobby your local candidates. You can show your support by downloading and displaying the ‘Prioritise all Tasmanians’ resources on your social media and other digital platforms — access the DropBox.

While tailored posts developed by you are best, you can also share our social media posts on Facebook, LinkedIn, X, with the hashtags #PrioritiseAllTasmanians, #FairFunding and #SupportCommunityServices. If you want guidance on how you can help promote our asks, we’ve prepared an Advocacy Toolkit for Organisations and Individuals (PDF, 135KB) tailored to the election, which covers off on a range of lobbying activities you can engage in to influence candidates and political parties. 

For more information about the campaign, please visit tascoss.org.au/coalition-of-community-service-peaks.

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