Tasmania's stinging rebuke of the coalition has left the Liberal Party the task of working out where it went so wrong in the island state.
Recording the nation's highest state swing against the government, nudging nine per cent, the result translated to the loss of three seats, leaving Tasmania bereft of Liberal representation in the federal lower house.
Senior Liberal Eric Abetz said Labor's scare campaign about the privatisation of Medicare bit hard in Tasmania where there was a high dependence on welfare among a largely aged population.
"It would be fair to say that we as a Liberal Party need to reflect especially on the national campaign as to why we did not resonate in Tasmania as we could have done and should have done," the Tasmanian senator told reporters on Sunday.
"This is a matter for analysis and consideration over the next few days and weeks but clearly we did not counter the Medi-scare campaign."
Voters ousted one-term Liberals Eric Hutchinson, Brett Whiteley and Andrew Nikolic - the self-titled "three amigos" - from the seats of Lyons, Braddon and Bass respectively.
Labor snatched back each of the seats, with Brian Mitchell, Justine Keays and Ross Hart joining the party's Franklin MP Julie Collins, who was returned for a fourth term.
"Clearly Tasmanians are opposed to the cuts to health and education that we've seen under the Liberals," Ms Collins said on Sunday.
"This result ... shows that the Liberal Party in Tasmania really needs to do some soul searching.
"It shows they are out of touch and that they do not understand what the community of Tasmania wants."
She took aim at Liberal Premier Will Hodgman for aligning himself so closely with the federal party's campaign.
The first-term premier used social media to reflect on a "disappointing" result.
"It certainly was a very fierce and very dishonest scare campaign by Labor on Medicare," Mr Hodgman posted on Facebook.
"We will continue working hard to keep Tasmania heading in the right direction."
Independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie, who easily met her quota on Saturday, has voiced concern about how the state will fare under a coalition government without any Liberal lower house representation.
But Ms Collins denied she and fellow Tasmanian Labor MPs would struggle to argue a case for the apple isle and said that even with Liberal members in place the coalition still ignored the southern state.
"Not a new cent of infrastructure under the Liberal government in Tasmania for the whole three years," she said of the coalition's reign since 2013.
Independent Andrew Wilkie picked up a swing of 2.2 per cent to remain in his Hobart seat of Denison and has promised not to do deals with the major parties, about which he said Tasmanian voters were feeling an "increasing level of dismay".
"The government, and often the alternative government, are out of step with the community so they're looking to people like me to represent them," Mr Wilkie said on Sunday.
While Tasmania's senate make-up is expected to be days away from finalisation, it appears the major parties have each secured four spots, with two to the Greens and one to Jacqui Lambie and the 12th still to be decided.
