Tasmanian major parties left with same number of seats as before election

ABC NEWS (Australia)

After two weeks of counting, the winner of the final seat in Tasmanian parliament has been determined, leaving both major parties with the same number of seats that they held before the election.

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00:00Well, the Tasmanian Electoral Commission has called the last unknown seat in the Tasmanian

00:06election. That's the last seat in Bass that was unknown. And they've called it for independent

00:12George Razay. He's a councillor at the City of Launceston Council and also a longstanding

00:16doctor up in Launceston. So Labor's Jess Green has also claimed a seat in Bass too.

00:23Mr Razay beat out former federal MP Jeff Lyons. And that brings the total count for the

00:29Tasmanian election, which was two weeks ago today. Liberals are on 14 seats. Labor have

00:3510. The Greens have five. Independents have five. And the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers have

00:40one. So it means that the results for the major parties, they have the exact same amount of

00:45seats as they did before the state election and the SNAP election was called. Big question

00:52on everyone's mind is what does this mean for who forms government and who holds power down

00:56here in Tasmania. So both the Liberal leader, Jeremy Rockcliffe, and the Labor leader, Dean

01:01Winter, have been talking with independents and crossbenchers about trying to gain their

01:05support. Now, the Liberals need support from four crossbenchers to remain in government.

01:12Yesterday, MP Craig Garland said he would not support the Liberals and he would actually support

01:17another no-confidence motion in Premier Jeremy Rockcliffe. And that's what brought about this

01:21SNAP election in the first place. And then Labor would need the support of the Greens. So the

01:25five Greens plus three other independents in order to form government. So still a few questions

01:31for the Tasmanian election.

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