There's a danger in the wake of an election that because it hasn't gone the way one might have hoped, or left others bemoaning the result, then somehow democracy has been tainted.

Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb is pushing to establish a parliamentary inquiry into the recent state poll.

Ms Webb claims: "We are now seeing a pattern of Tasmanian voters losing confidence in the integrity of our elections and their politicians."

The cynical - or perhaps realists - among us would question when we ever had such confidence in our politicians, but in our elections? Really?

On one level, her argument that other jurisdictions routinely hold parliamentary reviews into elections holds water.

Yet some of the examples she gives of "concerns" raised with regard to the May 1 poll makes it all look a little too much like a partisan attack, with a unhealthy dose of disrespect towards voters thrown in.

First, "the legitimacy of the rationale for calling an election" was very much an issue during the campaign.

Voters had the chance to judge Premier Peter Gutwein's excuse for 'going early', and hold it against him if they so desired, but you would have to be naive to think that anyone in his position wouldn't have similarly timed the election to their political advantage.

Next, a bugbear for independent members like Ms Webb who fear seeing the Legislative Council becoming dominated by parties - that it was held on the same day as the ballots for two upper house seats.

It is clear from the figures though that voters in those electorates did differentiate between the two houses, just as we know they do when voting for the House of Representatives and the Senate in federal polls.

Ms Webb says she intends "a general review of the administration of the elections, as opposed to the election outcome".

But it sounds suspiciously like it would be used by those who would rather bring into question the legitimacy of the outcome, arguing voters were somehow misled, and that's not in the interests of our democracy.