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Politics
Ethan James

Labor ahead by a nose in race for key marginal seat

Ex-Tasmanian Labor leader Rebecca White could make the shift to federal parliament. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

One of the most marginal seats in Australia, which sits in a battleground state, is poised to again go down to the wire at the upcoming federal election.

Forestry industry-funded polling of 712 residents in the mostly rural Tasmanian electorate of Lyons has Labor ahead 50.94 per cent to the Liberals' 49.06 on a two-party preferred basis. 

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