Announced/Expected Candidates For The 2025 Tasmanian State Election

Introduction

This article is a list of endorsed, self-declared or expected candidates running in the 2025 Tasmanian state election (Link to main guide page).   I've written it mainly to keep tabs on the mushrooming tally of candidate announcements before I have time to get my candidate guides in order.  Incumbents, marked with a *, are assumed to be running again unless they announce retirement or are deselected.  Rumours are noted for interest but are by nature unreliable and will be noted as debunked once that is so.  Media-reported candidates for preselection who have not yet been announced as party candidates are noted as "intending".

I am aware of some people who have made Facebook posts saying they are running without saying which electorate.  It is not entirely clear if they are serious.  I am disregarding these for now pending further information.

Declared Candidate Tally

I expect the Greens to run 35 candidates.  Numbers who ran in 2024 shown in brackets.  This tally includes candidates seeking preselection.

Liberal 35 (35)

Labor 35 (35)

Greens 35 (35)

Independents 44 (29) (record high, excluding "Green Independents" in 1992)

Shooters Fishers and Farmers 3 (11)

Nationals 9 (not then registered)

Animal Justice Party apparently not running (5)

Jacqui Lambie Network not running (12)

Local Network deregistered (5)

Total 161 (167)

Bass  (31)

Liberal

Bridget Archer

Rob Fairs*
Michael Ferguson*

Chris Gatenby

Sarah Quaile

Julie Sladden

Simon Wood*

Labor

Melissa Anderson

Janie Finlay*

Jess Greene

Will Gordon

Geoff Lyons

Luke Moore

Peter Thomas

Greens

Greens are listed in party recommended order

Cecily Rosol*

Charlene McLennan

Jack Fittler

Lauren Ball

Tom Hall

Anne Layton-Bennett

Eric March

Nationals

Angela Armstrong

Carl Cooper 

Independents - Own Column

George Razay

Independents - Ungrouped

Jack Davenport

Fenella Edwards

Daniel Groat

Caroline Larner

Rebekah Pentland*  

Tim Walker

Shooters Fishers and Farmers

Michael Frydrych

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Retirement: Michelle O'Byrne (Labor) is not recontesting.  

Rumours: There was been some discussion of Rebekah Pentland possibly running as a National but she is running as an independent.  A Facebook post has been seen suggesting Caroline Larner (Aus Citizens) is an independent candidate but it appears to be possibly based on confusion with the federal election.

Braddon  (38)

Liberal

Felix Ellis*

Roger Jaensch*

Stephen Parry

Gavin Pearce

Jeremy Rockliff*

Giovanna Simpson 

Kate Wylie

Labor

Shane Broad*

Amanda Diprose

Anita Dow*

Cheryl Fuller

Adrian Luke

Kelly Hunt

Tara Woodhouse

Greens

Greens are listed in party recommended order

Vanessa Bleyer

Scott Jordan

Erin Morrow

Petra Wilden

Susanne Ward

Haru Fergus

Thomas Kingston

Independent - Own Column

Craig Garland*  

Independent - Own Column

Joel Badcock

Coordinated Independents

This is a group of six independents who will run in a non-party group column together with Adam Martin as the most prominent candidate

Claudia Baldock

Andrea Courtney

Cristale Harrison

Adam Martin

James Redgrave

Malcolm Ryan 

Independents (Ungrouped)

Dami Barnes

Gatty Burnett (Tasmanians Now)

Jennifer Hamilton

Ernst Millet

Matthew Morgan

Mellissa Wells (Tasmanians Now)

Nationals

Miriam Beswick* 

Andrew Roberts

Shooters Fishers and Farmers

Adrian Pickin

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Clark  (28)

Liberal

Simon Behrakis*

Madeleine Ogilvie*

Jessica Barnett

Marilena Di Florio

Edwin Johnstone

Marcus Vermey

David Wan

Labor

Ella Haddad*

John Kamara

Luke Martin

Liam McLaren

Tessa McLaughlin

Craig Shirley

Josh Willie*

Greens

Greens are listed in party recommended order

Vica Bayley*, Helen Burnet* (joint lead candidates)

Janet Shelley

Nathan Volf

Pat Caruana

Angus Templeton

Peter Jones

Independent - Own Column

Kristie Johnston*  

Independent - Own Column

Elise Archer

Independents - Ungrouped

Jags (Jared) Goldsmith

John Macgowan 

Stephen Phipps

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Not running: Heidi Heck has ruled out running as a Labor candidate. 

Franklin (31)

Liberal

Eric Abetz*

Josh Garvin

Michele Howlett

Natasha Miller

Jacquie Petrusma*

Nic Street*

Dean Young

Labor

Meg Brown*

Kaspar Deane

Traycee Di Virgilio

Chris Hannan

Amelia Meyers

Jess Munday

Dean Winter*

Greens

Greens are listed in party recommended order

Rosalie Woodruff*

Owen Fitzgerald

Gideon Cordover

Carly Allen

Adi Munshi

Mark Donnellon

Brian Chapman

Independent - Own Column

David O'Byrne*

Independents - Peter George Group

This is a group of seven independents who will run in a non-party group column together with Peter George as the most prominent candidate, the rest are explicitly stated to be support candidates

Peter George (lead candidate)

Rayne Allinson

Kirsten Bacon

Louise Cherrie

Anthony Houston

Andrew T Jenner (not related to or to be mistaken with Lyons MP Andrew Jenner)

Chrissie Materia

Independents - Ungrouped

Sarah Gibbens

Hans Willink

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Rumours: Mitch McPherson was rumoured as a Labor candidate (but was also at the same time rumoured to have ruled it out) and didn't run..  

Not running: Brendan Blomeley (IND) has been reported by media as not running. Tamar Cordover (IND) announced intention to run but didn't run.

Lyons  (35)

Liberal

Guy Barnett*

Stephanie Cameron

Bree Groves

Richard Hallett

Jane Howlett*

Judith "Poppy" Lyne

Mark Shelton*

Labor

Edwin Batt

Jen Butler*

Shannon Campbell

Casey Farrell*

Richard Goss

Brian Mitchell

Saxon O'Donnell

Greens

Greens are listed in party recommended order

Tabatha Badger*

Alistair Allan

Hannah Rubenach-Quinn

Isabell Shapcott

Mitch Houghton

Craig Brown

Joey Cavanagh

Nationals

Francis Haddon-Cave

Andrew Jenner*

Rick Mandelson

Lesley Pyecroft

John Tucker

Independent - Own Column

Angela Offord

Independents - Ungrouped

Phillip Bigg

Ray Broomhall

Paul Dare

Michelle Dracoulis

John Hawkins

Jiri Lev

Tennille Murtagh

Shooters Fishers and Farmers

Carlo di Falco

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Not running: Ben Dudman has ruled out running as a Labor candidate. Susie Bower has ruled out running for the Liberals.