Tasmania's Labor leader has been discarded after the party's worst election result in more than a century and a failed bid to seize power in minority.
Dean Winter, who assumed the role 16 months ago after being elected to state parliament in 2021, was on Wednesday replaced by Josh Willie.
The party, which has been in opposition for 11 years, met for more than seven hours on Wednesday before announcing Mr Willie had been elected unopposed.
It came a day after Mr Winter's bid to take power via a no-confidence motion in parliament fell spectacularly flat.
Neither the incumbent Liberal government (14 seats) nor Labor (10) got the 18 seats needed for majority at a snap poll on July 19.
Both parties courted an 11-member cross bench in an attempt to form government.
None of the cross bench, made up of up five Greens, five independents and one Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MP, backed Mr Winter's bid on Tuesday.
Labor suffered a three per cent swing against it at the election and picked up 25.9 per cent of the primary vote.
It is understood there were party room discussions about Mr Winter, a former local mayor, continuing as leader.
Mr Winter copped a lashing from the majority of the cross bench on Tuesday for failing to compromise during policy negotiations.
The Liberals made a number of concessions to the largely left-leaning cross bench, including a pledge to ban greyhound racing and review salmon farming.
Mr Winter said he took "full responsibility" for the election result and it was understandable Labor had a new leader.
He accused Liberal Premier Jeremy Rockliff of selling out workers by shifting positions.
"Some say that politics is the art of compromise, but compromise does not and should not mean capitulation," Mr Winter, who will continue as an MP, said.
Mr Willie, from the party's left faction, was a teacher before entering politics and spent eight years in the upper house before being elected in the lower house in 2024.
"Tasmanian Labor has a proud history and I look forward to giving this role everything I've got to return Labor to government," he said in a statement.
Janie Finlay has been elected as deputy leader, replacing Anita Dow.
The Greens and several independents said they lacked faith in the Liberals, but had less faith that Labor could form a workable government.
Mr Rockliff said it was time to "get on with the job" and policy shifts were a recognition of a minority scenario.
The election, Tasmania's fourth in seven years, was triggered after Mr Rockliff lost a no-confidence motion in June that criticised the state's ballooning budget debt.
