In the first five days since early voting opened, almost 11,000 Tasmanians have cast their vote at one of the state's pre-poll centres.
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As of Wednesday morning, more than 20,289 postal ballots had been issued to enrolled Tasmanian voters within the state, intrastate, and overseas.
According to the most recent Tasmanian Electoral Commission data:
- 1680 pre-poll votes have been submitted in Bass;
- 2666 in Braddon,
- 1585 in Clark,
- 3394 in Franklin;
- and 1422 in Lyons.
There are pre-polling stations now open in Burnie, Launceston, Devonport, Hobart, Kingston and Sorrell.
Polling stations at Moonah, Smithton, St Helens, Bellerive, George Town, Scottsdale, New Norfolk, and Queenstown will open on Monday.
There will be 250 polling places opened on election day on March 23.
Almost one in five Tasmanians visited a pre-poll centre in the 2021 state election and another 27,230 submitted postal ballots - or 7.6 per cent of all voters.
In 2018, 10.4 per cent of Tasmanian voters cast votes early at a pre-poll centre.
The deadline to apply for a postal vote is 4pm on Friday, March 15.
Tasmanian Electoral Commissioner Andrew Hawkey said the quickest way to apply for a postal vote was by downloading and printing a form from the commission's website.
"The form can then be returned to us by email," he said.
Telephone voting is being offered for the first time in this state election for voters outside of Tasmania.
The telephone voting service is open from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm on weekdays at present.
Political reporter for Australian Community Media, based in Hobart.
Political reporter for Australian Community Media, based in Hobart.
