Former newsreader Jo Palmer elected to Tasmanian Parliament

Her likely win in the Rosevears Legislative Council election was confirmed on Tuesday afternoon after postal vote counting concluded and the distribution of preference votes from the six election candidates began.

A Liberal candidate, Ms Palmer went into Tuesday's count as a clear leader - a lead which gradually narrowed in favour of independent candidate Janie Finlay.

With three candidates left in the race, it emerged that Ms Finlay would need almost 80 per cent of the votes from the Labor election candidate to win.

In the end, Ms Palmer won by 260 votes.

At the start of the preference cut-up, Ms Palmer had won 41.5 per cent of primary votes and Ms Finlay had won 30.3 per cent.

Labor candidate Jess Green won 9 per cent of all first-preference votes and Greens candidate Jack Davenport had won 7.4 per cent.

Mr Fry won 8.3 per cent of all primary votes and Ms Gale won 3.3 per cent.

Ms Finlay picked up 302 votes and Ms Palmer picked up 122 votes once Ms Gale was excluded.

Ms Finlay gained more ground when Mr Davenport's votes were distributed, winning 631 of them to Ms Palmer's 139.

Ms Greene scored 784 votes.

The election's outcome was not made any more clearer once Mr Fry's votes were distributed.

A former Liberal MHA, it was thought that a majority of his votes could flow on to Ms Palmer, however, more than half went to Ms Finlay.

Even though Ms Finlay received 1014 of these votes compared to 954 to Ms Palmer, the Liberal candidate still lead her closest rival by 1835 votes.

As was expected, a majority of Ms Greene's votes went against Ms Palmer.

Ms Finlay received 2370 votes and Ms Palmer received 795 which was just enough for her to secure the win.

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