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April 12, 2014, 9 a.m.

THE resurgent Liberals will have nearly half of Tasmania's state MPs if Legislative Council results go their way in May.

THE resurgent Liberals will have nearly half of Tasmania's state MPs if Legislative Council results go their way in May.

The Liberals - who recently took government with 15 of the 25 House of Assembly seats - are running candidates in both Upper House seats facing elections on May 3.

They are running former Liberal MHA Peter Hodgman in Huon and former Liberal staffer and ex-Senate candidate Don Morris in the Northern seat of Rosevears.

The Liberals already have two of the 15 Upper House seats, held by Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin and Leonie Hiscutt in Montgomery.

Winning the two available Upper House seats would give them 19 of a combined 40 MPs.

In practical terms, they would still need support from independents to get legislation through the Legislative Council.

Mr Morris and independent incumbent Kerry Finch - a relatively left-wing MLC, according to elections expert Kevin Bonham - are the only candidates in Rosevears.

There are seven contenders to replace independent MLC turned Liberal MHA Paul Harriss in Huon.

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Liberals push for bigger parliamentary presence

The Opposition Liberals have won a hotly contested by-election for the St. Johns-area seat vacated by former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Kathy Dunderdale.

Results from Elections Newfoundland and Labrador for Wednesdays race had businesswoman Cathy Bennett winning the riding of Virginia Waters by a narrow margin over the second-place Tories, with the NDP finishing a distant third.

The Progressive Conservatives had held the riding since 2003.

Bennett defeated St. Johns city councillor Danny Breen of the Progressive Conservatives and NDP hopeful Sheilagh OLeary, a former municipal councillor in the city.

The riding became vacant after former premier Kathy Dunderdale quit politics and resigned her seat on Feb. 28.

Elections Newfoundland and Labradors unofficial vote tally had the Liberals with 1,932 votes, just 40 more than the Tory total of 1,892.

The NDP took 1,021 votes.

Elections Newfoundland and Labrador issued a news release saying just over 49 per cent of the 9,853 eligible voters cast a ballot in the by-election.

Don Mills, the president of Corporate Research Associates, said in an interview the Liberals will be pleased to take a long-time Tory seat, but the Conservatives are showing they remain competitive.

Its a positive for the Liberals for sure and an indication they are legitimately a party in waiting to take over the government, said Mills.

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