A total of 105 candidates have nominated to contests the 2021 Tasmanian election on 1 May. That’s down from 109 candidates in 2018 and 126 in 2014, but up on the very low 89 that contested then 2010 election.
This is the seventh election since the House of Assembly was reduced to 25 seats, and 105 candidates is the third lowest since the change.
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For the second election in a row, a record number of candidates have nominated to contest a Western Australian election.
The surge in numbers is largely down to a surge in minor party lower house nominations in support of upper house campaigns.
A total of 463 candidates have nominated for the 59 districts in the Legislative Assembly, and another 325 for the 36 vacancies in the Legislative Council.
All candidates have now been uploaded to the ABC’s election website.
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If interest is measured by the number of nominations, then the 2020 Queensland election is certainly attracting a lot of interest.
A record 597 candidates have nominated, an average of 6.4 candidates per seat. It easily surpasses the record 453 candidates that contested the 2017 Queensland election.Read More »Close of Nominations for 2020 Queensland Election