The Farmers and Producers Political Union (FPPU) was an

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agrarian

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founded in

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in reaction to

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, keen to fend off a perceived threat to the FPPU's interests against a rising

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and Labor. The rural stockowners and graziers were concerned at the concentration of the Australasian National League (ANL) on the metropolitan electorates and urban issues, leading to the formation of the FPPU which had a conservative political agenda, and was absolutely opposed to franchise reform. It was essentially the rural wing of the ANL. The FPPU was created in 1904 and lasted until after the 1910 election when it merged with the

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and the

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to become the Liberal Union. On their own the FPPU won an 8.8 percent vote at both the

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and 1906 election, winning nine and five seats respectively.

References

Wakefield Companion to South Australian History - by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round, Carol Fort, 2001The Emergence of the Australian party system - by Peter Loveday, Allan William Martin, 1977History of South Australian elections 1857-2006, volume 1: ECSA

Notes

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