Tasmania
| Australian federal election, 2007: Senate, Tasmania | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Quota | 46,693 | ||||
| Labor | 1. Nick Sherry (elected 1) 2. Carol Brown (elected 4) 3. Catryna Bilyk (elected 6) |
131,055 | 40.10 | +6.56 | |
| Liberal | 1. Richard Colbeck (elected 2) 2. David Bushby (elected 5) 3. Don Morris |
122,203 | 37.39 | -8.74 | |
| Greens | 1. Bob Brown (elected 3) 2. Andrew Wilkie 3. Sophie Houghton 4. Scott Jordan |
59,254 | 18.13 | +4.84 | |
| Family First | 1. Jacquie Petrusma 2. Andrew Bennett 3. Betty Roberts |
6,663 | 2.04 | -0.34 | |
| What Women Want | 1. Debra Cashion 2. Belinda Gleeson |
2,540 | 0.78 | +0.78 | |
| Democratic Labor | 1. Pat Crea 2. Joan Shackcloth |
2,061 | 0.63 | +0.63 | |
| 1. Dino Ottavi 2. Mick Cook 3. Chris Smallbane |
1,398 | 0.43 | +0.03 | ||
| 1. Steve Martin 2. Karley Nelson |
789 | 0.24 | -0.12 | ||
| CEC | 1. Caroline Larner 2. Michael Phibbs |
313 | 0.10 | -0.06 | |
| Liberty and Democracy | 1. Bede Ireland 2. Luke Hamilton |
302 | 0.09 | +0.09 | |
| 1. Robyn Doyle 2. David Hammond |
268 | 0.08 | +0.08 | ||
| Total formal votes | 326,846 | 97.37 | +0.74 | ||
| Informal votes | 8,830 | 2.63 | -0.74 | ||
| Turnout | 335,676 | 95.98 | +0.08 | ||
Labor finished ahead of the Liberals with around 40% of the vote each, followed by the Greens with over 18%. Labor and the Liberals each won two seats on primary vote alone whilst the Greens won one on primary vote. Preferences from the Greens led to Labor winning the remaining seat. The final result was three seats to Labor, two seats to the Liberals and one seat to the Greens.
Read more about this topic: Full National And State-by-state Upper House Results For The 2007 Australian Federal Election