An election is being held on 02 May 2026 for House of Assembly seats in Huon and Rosevears. As part of our election work, PMAT surveyed candidates on key planning issues across Development Assessment Panels, changes to Elector Polls and proposed changes to weaken Tasmania’s State Coastal Policy.
A Tasmanian State election is being held on 19 July 2025 for all House of Assembly seats. Of the 161 candidates announced by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission, PMAT managed to obtain email contact details for 120. Five substantive questions (Questions 5, 6,7,8 and 9) were asked of candidates.
2025 State Election Survey Results Read More »
Legislative Council (Upper House of Tasmanian Parliament) elections are being held on 24 May 2025 in the seats of Montgomery, Nelson and Pembroke. All 13 candidates across the three seats were contacted by PMAT with an email inviting them to undertake a survey on their position on DAPs (Development Assessment Panels).
DAP Survey Results: Legislative Election Candidates Position on DAPs 2025 Read More »
Legislative Council elections are being held on 4 May 2024 in the seats of Elwick, Hobart and Prosser. All 16 candidates across the three seats were contacted by PMAT with an email inviting them to undertake a survey on their position on DAPs (Development Assessment Panels).
PMAT Survey: What Are Your 2024 Legislative Candidates Position on DAPs? Read More »
A State election is being held on 23 March 2024 for all House of Assembly seats. Of the 167 candidates announced by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission, PMAT managed to obtain email contact details for 160. The remainder did not have email details provided. Only 25 candidates completed the survey. The survey was open from Sunday 3 March 2024 until midnight Saturday 9 March 2024.
State Election Candidate Survey Results on DAPs 2024 Read More »
In 2022, PMAT surveyed 398 of the 505 Local Government candidates. Of the 398 candidates, 169 completed our survey.
Local Government Candidate Survey Results 2022 Read More »
Elections are being held for 28 local government councils across Tasmania, with 481 individual candidates standing for councillor. Of those Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania managed to contact 407 candidates, asking them to complete this survey – 144 completed the survey.
Tasmanian Local Government Elections 2018 Planning Survey Read More »
Today the Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania released its Planning Policy Election Scorecard.
Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania Releases Policy Election corecard Read More »
