Tasmanian Liberals Returned to Office in Election Fought on Jobs

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Premier Will Hodgman visit flood devestated Latrobe in NW Tasmania on June 9, 2016 in Devonport, Australia. Severe storms caused extensive flooding across Northern Tasmania, with one confirmed death in Latrobe and two men still missing. Heath Holden/Getty Images

SYDNEY–Australia’s state of Tasmania has returned the conservative Tasmanian Liberals to office with a clear majority in an election fought largely on jobs and poker machines.

The southern state, an island the size of Sri Lanka with a population of 519,000, went to the polls on Saturday with decisive results apparent before midnight.