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formed by Kevin Lyons in 1969, which held the balance of power
in the Tasmanian House of
Assembly following the 1969 state
election in Tasmania. The party formed a
minority government
with the Liberal Party,
with Lyons acting as Deputy Premier to Angus Bethune
from 1969 to 1972.
Kevin Lyons,
the son of Tasmanian politician Joseph Lyons, was originally a member of the
Liberal Party. In 1966, a dispute arose over preselection and Lyons resigned
from the Liberals on 7 September.[1] Lyons remained in the House of Assembly
as an independent,
until the 1969 election when he ran for the newly formed Centre Party, a
repackaged version of the Country Party
which had never performed well in Tasmania.[2] Lyons was elected to the House of
Assembly as the party's only MHA, after substantial numbers of preferences were
transferred to him from Liberal voters in the electorate of Darwin.[3] Labor and the Liberals both won 17
seats in the House, resulting in a hung parliament, with the Centre Party's one seat
giving Lyons the balance of power. In negotiations with Bethune, Lyons agreed
to form a coalition government
with the Liberals, and became Bethune's deputy premier. The Liberal-Centre
coalition lasted until 1972, with Lyons resigning as Deputy Premier after a
dispute with Bethune, effectively dissolving the party and the coalition. The
resulting instability triggered the 1972 election,
which was won by the Labor Party's Eric Reece.
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