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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Lyons, Tasmania
Central Tasmania: Deloraine, Longford, New Norfolk, Sorell
Sitting member: Eric Hutchinson (Liberal), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 76,656
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 1.2%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Eric Hutchinson
Liberal Party |
2. Shelley Shay
Recreational Fishers Party |
3. Duncan Livingston
Renewable Energy Party |
4. Hannah Rubenach-Quinn
Australian Greens |
5. Gene Mawer
Christian Democrats |
6. Brian Mitchell
Australian Labor Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Lyons was created in 1984, when the old electorate of Wilmot, which had existed since 1903, was renamed. At various times this electorate has occupied
most parts of Tasmania: since 1984 it has extended from the northern suburbs of Hobart north to Port Sorrell and east to the coastal towns of St Helens
and St Marys. It has among Australia's lowest levels of median income, and among the lowest levels of people born in non English speaking countries.
Lyons is thus largely working-class but also parochial and conservative. The future of the timber industry has been an important issue in this seat.
Labor's strength lies in the semi-suburban areas north and west of Hobart, such as Bridgewater and New Norfolk, as well as in the timber and mining
towns. The Liberals dominate the farming areas of the Meander and Tamar valleys in the north.
The old seat of Wilmot was held by Prime Minister Joe Lyons from 1928 to 1939: it was renamed after him and his wife in 1984. Dick Adams, a former
state minister, won Lyons for Labor in 1993. Adams had a large personal vote, which is why Labor retained this seat in the face of the adverse swing
in 2004 caused by Mark Latham's anti-logging forestry policy. So the defeat of Adams after 20 years - largely due to the unpopularity of the
Labor-Greens coalition state government - was the biggest upset of the 2013 election.
Eric Hutchinson, Liberal MP for Lyons since 2013, was a wool buyer and trader and marketing manager before entering politics. he has a modest majority
of 1.2%, but this likely to be deceptive since he has had three years of incumbency and Labor will no longer have the personal vote of Dick Adams. At
the 2014 state election, the Liberals polled 50% of the vote in Lyons to Labor's 32.0%. Labor's new candidate is Brian Mitchell, who owns a media
consultancy company.
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