Tasmania Senate Ballot Draw Live

Today I'm attending the 2025 Tasmania Senate candidate reveal and ballot draw.   This is just an opportunity to find out quickly who is running since it takes some hours for the AEC to have the lists of candidates up.  The ballot order itself has little impact though it can be useful for parties to be adjacent to good sources of preferences, since voters are slightly more likely to give preferences to parties in adjacent columns than far away.  There isn't much "donkey vote" advantage in the Senate.

Once I have the ballot draw up I'll be going home to then work on my 2025 Tasmanian Senate guide with the aim of releasing it by the evening.  (Here's the 2022 guide if you want to see what you can expect!)

The following bave publicly declared they are running tickets for Tasmania Senate: Labor, Liberals, Greens, Jacqui Lambie Network, One Nation, Legalise Cannabis, Trumpet of Patriots, Libertarians, Sustainable Australia, Animal Justice, Australian Citizens, Shooters Fishers + Farmers, FUSION, plus Melissa Wells running for the unregistered "Tasmanians Now" (whether ungrouped or a grouped IND remains to be seen).   That means 13 declared tickets to date (there were 14 in 2022) so probably a similar sized Senate ballot.

Live comments from midday (refresh to see). 

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11:57 All in readiness, there will be two draws, one for groups and one for ungrouped candidates.  Not as many candidates here yet as in 2022.  

12:02 12 groups have nominated.  Liberal (3 candidates), Greens (4), Legalise Cannabis (2), Citizens (2), Trumpet of Patriots (3), ALP (6), JLN (2),One Nation (2), AJP (2), Libertarians (2), SFF (2), Sustainable Australia (2), and one ungrouped (Fenella Edwards, no Melissa Wells).  FUSION had declared a candidate but did not nominate.  33 candidates.

12:09 The double randomisation draw is underway.

12:12 And the order is: Sustainable Australia, Liberal, Trumpet of Patriots, Legalise Cannabis, Animal Justice Party, Greens, JLN, Libertarian, One Nation, Citizens Party, ALP, SFF and Edwards.