Electoral results for the Division of Huon
This is a list of electoral results for the electoral division of Huon in Tasmanian Legislative Council elections since 2005, when candidate political affiliations were first recorded in the official record.
Members
[edit]| Member | Party | Period | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Knight | Independent | 1856–1857 | |
| Richard Cleburne | Independent | 1857–1864 | |
| Alexander Kissock | Independent | 1864–1866 | |
| John Wedge | Independent | 1866–1868 | |
| John Foster | Independent | 1868–1874 | |
| James Robertson | Independent | 1874–1880 | |
| Joseph Solomon | Independent | 1880 | |
| William Fisher | Independent | 1881–1882 | |
| John Watchorn | Independent | 1882–1905 | |
| Thomas Fisher | Independent | 1905–1909 | |
| Stafford Bird | Independent | 1909–1924 | |
| David Calvert | Independent | 1924 | |
| William Calvert | Independent | 1924–1942 | |
| Rowland Worsley | Labor | 1942–1948 | |
| Ron Brown | Independent | 1948–1966 | |
| Michael Hodgman | Independent | 1966–1974 | |
| Peter Hodgman | Independent | 1974–1986 | |
| Athol Meyer | Independent | 1986–1996 | |
| Paul Harriss | Independent | 1996–2014 | |
| Robert Armstrong | Independent | 2014–2020 | |
| Bastian Seidel | Labor | 2020–2022 | |
| Dean Harriss | Independent | 2022– | |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 2020s
[edit]2022
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Toby Thorpe | 5,648 | 25.05 | −6.24 | |
| Independent | Dean Harriss | 5,340 | 23.68 | +7.54 | |
| Liberal | Aldo Antolli | 5,111 | 22.66 | +22.66 | |
| Greens | Gideon Cordover | 4,704 | 20.86 | +3.32 | |
| Local | Pat Caplice | 1,748 | 7.75 | +7.75 | |
| Total formal votes | 22,551 | 97.35 | −0.09 | ||
| Informal votes | 615 | 2.65 | +0.09 | ||
| Turnout | 23,166 | 86.20 | +0.64 | ||
| Registered electors | 26,876 | ||||
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Independent | Dean Harriss | 11,840 | 52.55 | +52.55 | |
| Labor | Toby Thorpe | 10,693 | 47.45 | −9.86 | |
| Independent gain from Labor | Swing | N/A | |||
2020
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Bastian Seidel | 6,795 | 31.29 | +31.29 | |
| Independent | Robert Armstrong | 4,071 | 18.75 | −1.65 | |
| Greens | Pat Caruana | 3,808 | 17.54 | +17.54 | |
| Independent | Dean Harriss | 3,506 | 16.14 | +16.14 | |
| Independent | Debbie Armstrong | 1,784 | 8.22 | +8.22 | |
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Garrick Cameron | 1,752 | 8.07 | +8.07 | |
| Total formal votes | 21,716 | 97.44 | +1.67 | ||
| Informal votes | 571 | 2.56 | −1.67 | ||
| Turnout | 22,287 | 85.56 | +0.39 | ||
| Registered electors | 26,048 | ||||
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Bastian Seidel | 12,284 | 57.31 | +57.31 | |
| Independent | Robert Armstrong | 9,152 | 42.69 | −14.19 | |
| Labor gain from Independent | |||||
Elections in the 2010s
[edit]2014
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Peter Hodgman | 5,387 | 26.13 | +26.13 | |
| Independent | Robert Armstrong | 4,205 | 20.40 | +20.40 | |
| Independent | Liz Smith | 3,974 | 19.28 | +19.28 | |
| Independent | Jimmy Bell | 3,177 | 15.41 | +15.41 | |
| Independent | Rodney Dillon | 1,690 | 8.20 | +8.20 | |
| Independent | Pavel Ruzicka | 1,312 | 6.36 | +6.36 | |
| Independent | Helen Lane | 871 | 4.22 | +4.22 | |
| Total formal votes | 20,616 | 95.76 | −0.56 | ||
| Informal votes | 912 | 4.24 | +0.56 | ||
| Turnout | 21,528 | 85.17 | +2.32 | ||
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Independent | Robert Armstrong | 10,703 | 56.88 | +56.88 | |
| Liberal | Peter Hodgman | 8,113 | 43.12 | +43.12 | |
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 2000s
[edit]2008
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Paul Harriss | 12,149 | 62.04 | +12.61 | |
| Greens | Mark Rickards | 7,435 | 37.96 | +37.96 | |
| Total formal votes | 19,584 | 96.32 | −1.31 | ||
| Informal votes | 748 | 4.68 | +1.31 | ||
| Turnout | 20,332 | 82.86 | −4.75 | ||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Huon results – 2022 Legislative Council elections Tasmania". www.tec.tas.gov.au. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ^ "Legislative Council Elections 2020 Results – Huon". Tasmanian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ 2014 Legislative Council elections results: Division of Huon Archived 5 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Tasmanian Electoral Commission, 3 May 2014.
- ^ "Division of Huon". 2008 Legislative Council election results. Tasmanian Electoral Commission. 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2013.[permanent dead link]
