2002 Tasmanian state election

State election in Australia April 2022 2002 Tasmanian state election Tasmania parliamentary no 1998 Tasmanian state election 1998 2006 Tasmanian state election 2006 All 25 seats to the House of Assembly 13 20 July 2002 Labor Placeholder.png 120 120 160 0 0 Jim Bacon 14 April 1997 Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) Denison 14 seats 14 153,798 51.88% 7.09 Liberal Party of Australia placeholder portrait.svg 120 120 160 0 0 Bob Cheek 20 August 2001 Liberal Party of Australia (Tasmanian Division) Denison (lost seat) 10 seats 7 3 81,185 27.38% 10.67 Peg Putt 2006.jpg 130 130 170 8 0 center Peg Putt 29 August 1998 Tasmanian Greens Denison 1 seat 4 3 53,746 18.13% 7.95 2002 Tasmanian state election - Results.svg 350px Results of the election Premier Jim Bacon Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) Jim Bacon Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) A general election for the Tasmanian House of Assembly was held on Saturday 20 July 2002. The Labor government led by Premier Jim Bacon won a second term against the Liberal Party Opposition headed by Opposition Leader Bob Cheek in a landslide. The election was marked by a strong swing to both the Labor Party and the Tasmanian Greens at the expense of the Liberals, with Cheek losing his own seat. Bacon and the Labor Party campaigned on a platform of revitalising the state after the 1990s-era economic reforms of successive Liberal governments, while maintaining law and order and a strong economy, and promoting tourism in particular. In response, Cheek and the Liberals claimed that the government had abandoned small business and promised a wide range of spending initiatives - something that was seized upon by Bacon as a means of attacking the Liberals' economic credentials. The Tasmanian Greens, under leader Peg Putt, campaigned as an alternative to both major parties, concentrating on environmental issues, which are often an area of bipartisan agreement among the Tasmanian major parties. The results of the election were somewhat unexpected. The government retained its 14 seats in the 25-member parliament and recorded a swing in their favour in all five electorates. The Liberal Party had held ten seats before the election, but lost three to the Greens, who subsequently went from one to four seats. The Greens gained 18.1% of the statewide vote, their highest on record. In the Hobart-based seat of Denison, the Greens polled 24.5%, outpolling the main Opposition Liberal Party. The election had major impacts on both the Liberals and Tasmanian Greens, while leaving Labor largely unchanged. The Liberals suffered a swing of over 10 percent and lost three seats, including that of their leader, Bob Cheek–the first major-party leader in Tasmania to lose his own seat since 1903.December 2017 Rene Hidding was elected as his successor. In contrast to the misfortune of the Liberal Party, the election saw the unexpected revival of the Greens. The reduction of the size of the Assembly in 1998, from 35 to 25, had increased the quota necessary to win a seat to 16.7%. Both major parties portrayed this as a way to cut the costs of government, but the Greens saw it as an attempt to eradicate them. At the 1998 election, all of their MPs except one, Peg Putt, were defeated. However, they managed to markedly increase their vote in the 2002 poll, and picked up three new MPs, Kim Booth, Nick McKim and Tim Morris. Results Results of the Tasmanian state election, 2002 File:2006 TAS House of Assembly.svg Summary of the Results of the 2002 Tasmanian state election, House of Assembly 332473 15167 #f00011 #080cab #900 #f96 Labor Liberal Greens Democrats Socialist Alliance Tasmania First Independents 14 7 4 0 0 0 0 7.09 10.67 7.95 0.21 0.21 4.92 0.52 3 3 153798 81185 53746 2019 722 529 4471 Primary vote by division Bass Braddon Denison Franklin Lyons Labor Party 49.1% 53.2% 50.8% 51.7% 54.6% Liberal Party 31.4% 33.1% 22.9% 23.7% 25.7% Tasmanian Greens 16.5% 12.0% 24.5% 20.4% 17.2% Other 3.0% 1.7% 1.7% 4.2% 2.6% Distribution of seats auto Electorate Seats held Bass           Braddon           Denison           Franklin           Lyons           5em   Labor   Liberal   Green See also Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 2002-2006 Candidates of the 2002 Tasmanian state election References Tasmanian Parliamentary Library: 2002 election results https://web.archive.org/web/20191023054813/http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/tpl/Elections/e2002.htm 23 October 2019 Voting by Division from Adam Carr's Electoral Archive Australian Parliamentary Library research note Category:Elections in Tasmania Category:2002 elections in Australia Category:July 2002 in Australia Category:2000s in Tasmania