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Tasmania's Liberals will govern with 15 seats in the state's 25-member lower house, final election counting has confirmed.

Led by Will Hodgman, the party romped to power at the March 15 poll but three seats had remained in doubt until the count was completed.

The Liberals have grabbed an unprecedented four of the five seats in the electorate of Braddon in the state's northwest.

The party has won three seats in Bass, Franklin and Lyons and two in Denison.

Five members are returned in each seat under Tasmania's unique Hare-Clark voting system and the state's five electorates are the same as their federal seats.

Prior to the election each seat had two Labor, two Liberal and one Greens MP.

The ALP will have seven members in the house after former ministers David O'Byrne and Brian Wightman missed out, along with rogue backbencher Brenton Best.

Mr Best had called for Premier Lara Giddings to quit in the lead-up to the campaign, criticising the ALP's power-sharing deal with the Greens.

The Greens' representation has shrunk from five seats, including two cabinet ministers before they were sacked in January, to three MPs.

They will lose their status as a parliamentary party, which is likely to mean a reduction in resources.

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ABC In crosshairs: Rebel MLAs Larisa Lee, Alison Anderson and Francis Xavier

Chief Minister Adam Giles has dumped one of three rebel Indigenous MLAs from the parliamentary wing of the Country Liberals.

The Member for Namatjira Alison Anderson will have to move to the cross benches.

It is also possible that a meeting of the Country Liberals executive may move to expel Ms Anderson from the party.

Mr Giles said talks between himself and the three rebel MPs had broken down because the Country Liberals were "being asked to govern with a gun to our heads".

The Country Liberals Government's three indigenous members, Alison Anderson, Larisa Lee and Francis Xavier, have been pressuring Mr Giles for several weeks and presented him with a list of demands.

Mr Giles said the list of demands had gone too far and he would not be held to ransom.

"It has got to a point when it is simply a joke," he said.

The ABC understands their list of demands included creating a new Aboriginal affairs department, making Alison Anderson the minister for Aboriginal affairs, and former chief executive of the Northern Land Council, Norman Fry, her chief of staff.

Larisa Lee wanted to be made minister for youth, sport and recreation, parks and wildlife, and women's affairs.

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