 After more conflict with the Council, Price and Peake obtained an early election, and campaigned as a "ministerial alliance".At the same time, Peake agreed to pressure from within his group to form a new party – the Liberal and Democratic Union (LDU).This drew its membership from small wheat farmers, and at this stage, the LDU was firmly in favour of franchise reform, willing to be in coalition with the ULP, and opposed to both the conservative Australasian National League (ANL) and the Farmers and Producers Political Union (FPPU).