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15.3% swing to ALP
Preference count
Labor Party
Anne Urquhart
Vote: 57.2%
42,741
Liberal Party
Mal Hingston
Vote: 42.8%
31,927
- Anne Urquhart leads by 10,814 votes.
- Previously held by LIB with margin of 8.0%.
- Anne Urquhart former Senator wins seat.
- Mal Hingston fails to succeed Gavin Pearce.
First preference
LaborLabor Party
Anne Urquhart
- Vote:39.5%29,516Swing: +17.0%
LiberalLiberal Party
Mal Hingston
- Vote:31.7%23,646Swing: -12.4%
GreensGreens
Erin Morrow
- Vote:8.4%6,293Swing: +1.7%
IndependentIndependent
Adam Martin
- Vote:8.3%6,160Swing: +8.2%
One NationOne Nation
Christopher Methorst
- Vote:7.6%5,694Swing: +3.3%
Trumpet of PatriotsTrumpet of Patriots
Stephen Kenney
- Vote:4.5%3,359Swing: +4.5%
IndependentIndependent
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- Vote:0.0%0Swing: -7.8%
OthersOthers
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- Vote:0.0%0Swing: -9.9%
OthersOthers
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- Vote:0.0%0Swing: -4.6%
North West Tasmania
Safe Liberal 8.0%
MP
The retiring Liberal member is Gavin Pearce who has held this seat since 2019.
Profile
Braddon covers 21,369 square kilometres along the north-west and west coasts of Tasmania, and also includes King Island in Bass Strait. It extends from Port Sorell and Devonport in the east, through Ulverstone, Burnie, Wynyard, Stanley, Smithton and Waratah, then down the west coast of the state to include Rosebery, Zeehan, Queenstown and Strahan. The electorate is a mix of agricultural districts in the north and mining and wilderness areas on the west coast.
Background
Originally called Darwin, this electorate was re-named Braddon in 1955 to honour of Sir Edward Braddon. One of the leaders of the Federation movement in Tasmania, Braddon served in the Tasmanian Parliament, was Premier 1894-99, and also a member of the first House of Representatives elected in 1901.
Braddon became a relatively safe Liberal electorate in the period following the defeat of the Whitlam government and the later Franklin Dam dispute. In this period it was represented by Liberals Ray Groom 1975-84 and then Chris Miles until his defeat at the 1998 election. Groom was later to represent Denison in the Tasmanian Parliament 1986-2001 and was Tasmanian Premier from 1992 to 1996.
After two decades as the state's safest Liberal electorate, Braddon swung dramatically to Labor at the 1998 election. A swing of 10% defeated Chris Miles and delivered victory to Labor's Sid Sidebottom. Re-elected in 2001, Sidebottom suffered defeat at the 2004 election, a 7.1% swing generated by Mark Latham's unpopular forests policy delivering victory to Liberal Mark Baker. After one term out of Parliament, Sidebottom returned to defeat Baker at the 2007 election, and then more than doubled his majority in 2010.
The cycle turned again in 2013 with Sidebottom defeated by former local state MP Brett Whiteley, but Whitely lasted only one term before being defeated by Labor's Justine Keay at the 2016 election.
Keay's failure to renounce her UK citizenship in time for her nomination in 2016 saw Braddon become one of the seven seats forced to a by-election in the 2016-19 parliament over citizenship issues. Held on the same day as four other by-elections in July 2018, Braddon saw Keay again defeat Whiteley with only a small change in vote since the 2016 election. The poor Liberal results that day stoked the fire for the later leadership challenge against Malcolm Turnbull.
The Liberal Party under new Prime Minister Scott Morrison targeted the northern Tasmanian seats of Bass and Braddon at the 2019 election. The Liberal Party won both, new Liberal candidate Gavin Pearce easily defeating Justine Keay in Braddon. After two terms Pearce is retiring at the 2025 election.
Past Winning Parties
Year | Winning Party |
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1972 | ALP |
1974 | ALP |
1975 | LIB |
1977 | LIB |
1980 | LIB |
1983 | LIB |
1984 | LIB |
1987 | LIB |
1990 | LIB |
1993 | LIB |
1996 | LIB |
1998 | ALP |
2001 | ALP |
2004 | LIB |
2007 | ALP |
2010 | ALP |
2013 | LIB |
2016 | ALP |
2018By | ALP |
2019 | LIB |
2022 | LIB |
(Victories by a party of government are indicated by thick coloured underlining.)
2022 Polling Place Results
Of the 68 polling places used in Braddon at the 2019 election, 59 recorded Liberal two-party preferred majorities, rising above 70% in eight. The best Labor vote was 59.0% at the Waratah Athenaeum Hall, an old tin mining town inland from Burnie. The highest Liberal votes was 77.8% at Sassafras Primary School, a rural community south-east of Devonport.
(Click on polling place for results)
Past Results
The two northern seats of Bass and Braddon lean towards the Liberal Party compared to Tasmania as a whole. Given the overall Labor lean of Tasmania at Federal elections since the 1990s, being a Liberal leaning seat in Tasmania means being marginal nationally. The blue line for Braddon in the graph below shows this Liberal lean, above the dashed line for Tasmania as a whole, and popping above 50% to be gained by the Liberal Party in 2004, 2013 and 2019.
Results 1983-2022
2022 Preference Flow
2025 Candidates in Ballot Paper Order (6 Candidates)
Candidate Name | Party |
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KENNEY, Stephen John | Trumpet of Patriots |
MORROW, Erin | The Greens |
METHORST, Christopher | Pauline Hanson's One Nation |
URQUHART, Anne | Australian Labor Party |
MARTIN, Adam | Independent |
HINGSTON, Mal | Liberal |
More on Candidates


Erin Morrow
The Greens
Morrow grew up in Queensland, has lived all over the country but now lives in Devonport. She is a psychologist with a masters degree in organisational psychology and runs her own clinic and consultancy. Outside of her work and hobbies she has an established history of volunteer work in her local community. Morrow was a Greens candidate for Braddon at the 2024 state election.


Anne Urquhart
Australian Labor Party
Urquhart was born in Latrobe and with her husband has raised a family in the Gawler cottage where they have lived for 45 years. She began her working life at the potato factory in Ulverstone where she became a union delegate, later working as an organiser with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU). In 2004, she became the first female state secretary of the AMWU in Tasmania, leading successful campaigns for fair pay, safe workplaces and helping to defeat the Liberals WorkChoices legislation. Urquhart has served as a Labor Senator for Tasmania since 2010 and has resigned her seat to contest Braddon.

Adam Martin
Independent
Martin grew up in New South Wales, has lived in the country all his life and now lives in Ridgley, Tasmania. He is a builder and construction manager, as well as a farmer, and was the executive officer of the national peak body for recreational fishing, regularly visiting Canberra in that role. Martin has volunteered in the recreational fishing space for over 20 years in various capacities. This is his first time running as a candidate in an election as a community independent.

Mal Hingston
Liberal
Hingston's family connection to northern Tasmania goes back to 1842 when three brothers arrived from England. He grew up in Latrobe with three sisters and numerous foster children who his family took in over many years. He still lives in Latrobe with his partner Raquel. Hingston left school at 15 to undertake a trade and later studied part time to complete a degree in Mechanical Engineering while working as a Mechanical Designer at Elphinstone's in Burnie. Since 2003 Hingston has held key positions in the mining, civil, and defence industries delivering infrastructure all over Australia.
2022 Result
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
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Gavin Pearce | LIB | 31,142 | 44.1 | +6.2 |
Chris Lynch | ALP | 15,886 | 22.5 | -9.6 |
Sophie Lehmann | JLN | 6,966 | 9.9 | +9.9 |
Craig Anthony Garland | IND | 5,538 | 7.8 | +7.8 |
Darren Briggs | GRN | 4,745 | 6.7 | +1.9 |
Ludo Mineur | ONP | 3,065 | 4.3 | -1.2 |
Darren Scott Bobbermien | UAP | 1,000 | 1.4 | -2.3 |
Duncan White | LDP | 971 | 1.4 | +1.4 |
Scott Rankin | LOC | 719 | 1.0 | +1.0 |
Keone Patrick Martin | AJP | 566 | 0.8 | +0.8 |
.... | OTH | 0 | 0.0 | -5.1 |
.... | IND | 0 | 0.0 | -10.9 |
After Preferences | ||||
Gavin Pearce | LIB | 40,968 | 58.0 | +4.9 |
Chris Lynch | ALP | 29,630 | 42.0 | -4.9 |