In 2025, periodic elections will be conducted for the Legislative Council divisions of Montgomery, Nelson and Pembroke. The elected members will serve until the 2031 periodic elections.
Polling day is expected to be Saturday 24 May 2025.
Remember, voting in the Legislative Council elections is compulsory and more information may be found at: www.tec.tas.gov.au/legislative-council/elections-2025/index.html .
You can vote in person at a polling place on polling day. If you expect to be unable do this, there will be early voting options available. Voting details and polling locations will be available on the Electoral Commission website closer to the election.
To vote in these Legislative Council elections, you must be correctly enrolled before 6pm on Tuesday 15 April 2025. Further information is available to assist you if you need to enrol to vote or update your enrolment.
You are eligible to enrol for Federal and Tasmanian elections if–
The exception being prisoners serving a sentence of imprisonment for a term of more than 3 years.
British subjects who are not Australian citizens are eligible to enrol for Federal and Tasmanian elections if they were on a Commonwealth of Australia electoral roll on 25 January 1984.
*You may enrol when you are 16 or 17, but you cannot vote until you are 18.
Yes, if you are 18 or older and otherwise eligible you must enrol to vote. You may be fined if you do not enrol. If you are only 16 or 17, enrolment is not compulsory.
Yes, voting is compulsory in Federal and Tasmanian Parliamentary elections. Recent amendments to the Local Government Act 1993 mean that voting in local government elections is now compulsory for all electors on the State roll. You may be fined if you do not vote.
For more information about enrolment, to check or update your enrolment, visit: www.tec.tas.gov.au/info/Enrolment.html or phone the Electoral Commission on
