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The 2010 South Australian state election elected members to the 52nd Parliament of South Australia
on 20 March 2010. All seats in the House of Assembly
or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2006 election, and half the seats in the Legislative Council
or upper house, last filled at the 2002 election, became vacant.
The incumbent centre-left
Labor Party
government led by Premier Mike Rann
was elected to a third four-year term over the opposition centre-right
Liberal Party
led by Leader of the Opposition
Isobel Redmond
. Labor's landslide 7.7 percent swing to a two-party-preferred vote
of 56.8 percent at the 2006 election was reversed at this election with a swing of 8.4 percent, finishing with a two-party vote of 48.4 percent, however, Labor retained majority government
with 26 of 47 seats, a net loss of two. Labor lost the inner metropolitan seats of Adelaide
, Morialta
and Norwood
to the Liberals while Nationals SA member Karlene Maywald
lost her rural seat of Chaffey
to the Liberals. Independent Kris Hanna
lost to the Labor candidate in Mitchell
, independents Bob Such
in Fisher
and Geoff Brock
in Frome
retained their seats (the latter having won at the 2009 by-election), while independent candidate Don Pegler
won Mount Gambier
, replacing outgoing independent Rory McEwen
.
In the upper house, both major parties won four seats each, with the last three to the SA Greens, Family First
, and Dignity for Disability. The composition of the upper house therefore became eight Labor, seven Liberal, two Green, two Family First, two independent No Pokies
, and one Dignity for Disability.
Like federal elections, South Australia has compulsory voting
, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting
in single member seats for the lower house and single transferable vote
group voting ticket
s in the proportionally represented
upper house. The election was conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Australia (ECSA), an independent body answerable to Parliament.
Independents: Bob Such
, Geoff Brock
, Don Pegler
works by lining up all of the seats according to the percentage point
margin post-election on a two-candidate-preferred
basis.
Prior to the election, of 22 seats, Labor and the Liberals held eight seats each, Family First and No Pokies held two seats each, and the Greens and Democrat
-turned-independent David Winderlich
held one seat each. Up for election were five Liberal, four Labor, one Family First, and Winderlich. Labor and the Liberals won four seats each, with one each to Family First and the Greens, with the last spot to Dignity for Disability candidate Kelly Vincent
. This gives an upper house composition of eight Labor, seven Liberal, two Greens, two Family First, two independent No Pokies, and one Dignity for Disability.
, due to be completed by 2014. Additional specialist math and science teachers for South Australian high schools were announced. Tens of thousands of extra training places and apprenticeships as part of a pledge to create 100,000 extra jobs during the next six years, despite a healthy economy, assisted by mining and defence industries, and the lowest state unemployment figures in the country.
Under Labor, the Royal Adelaide Hospital
would be abandoned and a new hospital built on the site of the old rail yards, moving Adelaide's main hospital from the eastern end to the western end of North Terrace
in the Central Business District
, within the electoral district of Adelaide
. The Liberals and minor party Save the RAH
were campaigning against this, with the Liberals proposing renovations on the current site.
Australian Football League
(AFL) games and other sporting events are expected to be moved away from AAMI Stadium
to new grounds. The Liberals proposed a new sports stadium on the old rail yards, while Labor proposed a major overhaul of Adelaide Oval
, also in the electoral district of Adelaide.
A large unfunded liability within the workers compensation scheme known as WorkCover
had had built up under both Labor and Liberal governments, which sparked sweeping payout reductions under the last term of the Rann government, with the legislation passed in Parliament by both major parties, but came under sustained criticism from both the left and the right. The left were critical of monetary cuts to injured or otherwise incapable workers (see 2008 Parnell–Bressington filibuster), while the Liberals attacked WorkCover's operations, claiming there was wasteful duplication and a decrease in accountability, argued that this contributed to its budget problems, and that under a Liberal government WorkCover's insurance and regulatory arms would be split.
Attorney-General Michael Atkinson
had been the subject of sustained criticism by the internet generation
demographic for refusing to allow classification of and therefore legally allow certain types of explicit media (see Michael Atkinson#Media classification and censorship). Gamers 4 Croydon
was created and contested Atkinson's seat of Croydon, as well as Adelaide
, Norwood
, Light
, Mawson
, and the upper house. Though the Liberals had not pledged a different stance on the issue, Atkinson suffered a larger than average primary swing of 16 points and two-party-preferred swing of 12 points in his seat. Following the election, Atkinson announced his immediate resignation from the Rann ministry, and that he would not recontest his seat at the next election
. It was announced that the new Rann Labor Attorney General would be John Rau
, who expressed that he held a different view to his predecessor, and would be talking with his interstate counterparts at the next meeting of Attorney Generals.
The election campaign was overshadowed by affair allegations against Rann.
Although it was apparent only a few hours after the polls closed that Rann Labor had retained majority government
, it was four days after the election that Rann officially claimed victory, after Redmond eventually conceded that the Liberals had not won enough seats to be capable of forming a government. The Governor of South Australia subsequently re-appointed Mike Rann
as Premier of South Australia.
polling is conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes
consist of just under 900 electors, with the 14–18 March 2010 poll consisting of just under 1600 electors. The declared margin of error
s are ± 3.5 percent and ± 2.5 percent respectively.
and half of the members in the Legislative Council
. In South Australia, section 28 of the Constitution Act 1934, as amended in 2001, directs that parliaments have fixed four-year terms, and elections must be held on the third Saturday in March every four years unless this date falls the day after Good Friday or occurs within the same month as a Commonwealth election, or the conduct of the election could be adversely affected by a state disaster. Section 28 also states that the Governor may also dissolve the Assembly and call an election for an earlier date if the Government has lost the confidence of the Assembly or a bill of special importance has been rejected by the Legislative Council. Section 41 states that both the Council and the Assembly may also be dissolved simultaneously if a deadlock occurs between them.
The election campaign must run for a minimum of 25 days or a maximum of 55 days, therefore the Governor would need to have issued writs for the election by 23 February 2010 at the latest. Between 7 and 10 days after that date, the electoral roll is closed, which gives voters a final opportunity to enrol or to notify the State Electoral Office of any changes in their place of residence. Candidates wishing to stand for election can nominate between the issue of the writs and no more than 14 days after the close of rolls for a deposit of $450.
The writs were issued 20 February, the electoral roll closed 2 March, and candidate nominations closed 5 March.
The centre-left
Labor Party
, led by Premier Mike Rann
, and the centre-right
Liberal Party
, led by Leader of the Opposition
Isobel Redmond
, are the two main parties in South Australia. In the 2006 state election, of 47 seats total, Labor won 28 seats, the Liberals won 15 seats and the Nationals, who are not in coalition with the Liberals in South Australia, retained their seat through minister Karlene Maywald
(Chaffey
). Three seats were retained by independents, minister Rory McEwen
(Mount Gambier
), Bob Such
(Fisher
) and Kris Hanna
(Mitchell
). Smaller parties which held no seats in the lower House but achieved significant votes in 2006 included the SA Greens and the Family First Party
.
Former Liberal Premier Rob Kerin
resigned in November 2008, which triggered a Frome by-election
on 17 January 2009. Independent Geoff Brock
won the seat, reducing the Liberals to 14 seats.
In the South Australian Legislative Council
, the Labor Party and the Liberal Party held eight seats each, whilst No Pokies
and Family First
held two seats each. The SA Greens and an ex-Democrat
independent held one seat each. Half of the upper house was up for election in 2010, four Labor and five Liberal, one Family First and one ex-Democrat independent.
No Pokies
MP Nick Xenophon
, re-elected in 2006 until 2014, was replaced by former No Pokies candidate John Darley
after Xenophon's resignation to run for the Australian Senate
at the 2007 federal election in which he was successful. Former Liberal MP Robert Brokenshire
replaced Family First MP Andrew Evans as an MLC in 2008. The last remaining Democrats MP anywhere in Australia, Sandra Kanck
, chose to resign before the end of her term, which prompted a party membership ballot to choose a replacement in early 2009. David Winderlich
was selected. He resigned from the party in late 2009 to sit in parliament as an independent.
Parliament of South Australia
The Parliament of South Australia is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia. It consists of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly. It follows a Westminster system of parliamentary government....
on 20 March 2010. All seats in the House of Assembly
South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.- Overview :...
or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2006 election, and half the seats in the Legislative Council
South Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the House of Assembly...
or upper house, last filled at the 2002 election, became vacant.
The incumbent centre-left
Centre-left
Centre-left is a political term that describes individuals, political parties or organisations such as think tanks whose ideology lies between the centre and the left on the left-right spectrum...
Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
government led by Premier Mike Rann
Mike Rann
Michael David Rann MHA, CNZM , Australian politician, served as the 44th Premier of South Australia. He led the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party to minority government at the 2002 election, before attaining a landslide win at the 2006 election...
was elected to a third four-year term over the opposition centre-right
Centre-right
The centre-right or center-right is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political parties, or organizations whose views stretch from the centre to the right on the left-right spectrum, excluding far right stances. Centre-right can also describe a coalition of centrist...
Liberal Party
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
led by Leader of the Opposition
Leader of the Opposition (South Australia)
The Leader of the Opposition in South Australia is the leader of the largest minority political party or coalition of parties, known as the Opposition, in the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia. By convention, he or she is generally a member of the House of Assembly...
Isobel Redmond
Isobel Redmond
Isobel Mary Redmond is the current parliamentary leader of the South Australian division of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Australia since 2009. The Redmond Liberals won 18 of 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly at the 2010...
. Labor's landslide 7.7 percent swing to a two-party-preferred vote
Two-party-preferred vote
In politics, the two-party-preferred vote , or two-candidate-preferred vote , in an election or opinion poll uses preferential voting to express the electoral result after the distribution of preferences...
of 56.8 percent at the 2006 election was reversed at this election with a swing of 8.4 percent, finishing with a two-party vote of 48.4 percent, however, Labor retained majority government
Majority government
A majority government is when the governing party has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system. This is as opposed to a minority government, where even the largest party wins only a plurality of seats and thus must constantly bargain for support from...
with 26 of 47 seats, a net loss of two. Labor lost the inner metropolitan seats of Adelaide
Electoral district of Adelaide
Adelaide is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly which includes Adelaide's central business district and suburbs in the inner north and inner north east...
, Morialta
Electoral district of Morialta
Morialta is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Morialta is derived from a Kaurna Aboriginal word "mariyatala", with "mari" meaning east and "yertala" meaning water...
and Norwood
Electoral district of Norwood
Norwood is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after its surrounding geographical area, Norwood, South Australia. Norwood is a 14.2 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's inner eastern suburbs...
to the Liberals while Nationals SA member Karlene Maywald
Karlene Maywald
Karlene Ann Maywald is an Australian National Party politician who represented the seat of Chaffey in the South Australian House of Assembly from October 1997 until March 2010...
lost her rural seat of Chaffey
Electoral district of Chaffey
Chaffey, created in 1936, is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the Riverland region of South Australia and is named after brothers George and William Chaffey who established the irrigation area along the Murray River from 1886...
to the Liberals. Independent Kris Hanna
Kris Hanna
Kris Hanna was an Australian politician, and member for Mitchell in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1997 until 2010. Originally elected as a Labor member, Hanna defected to the SA Greens in 2003 before becoming an independent in 2006....
lost to the Labor candidate in Mitchell
Electoral district of Mitchell (South Australia)
Mitchell is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the state of South Australia. It was first created in 1969 and is named after philosopher Sir William Mitchell...
, independents Bob Such
Bob Such
Robert Bruce "Bob" Such , Australian politician, is the member for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly, as an independent since 2000, and as member of the Liberal Party member from the 1989 election to 2000....
in Fisher
Electoral district of Fisher
Fisher is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after James Fisher, a colonial politician and the first mayor of Adelaide...
and Geoff Brock
Geoff Brock
Geoffrey Graeme "Geoff" Brock is a South Australian politician, representing the seat of Frome in the South Australian House of Assembly as an Independent, after a shock win at the 2009 Frome state by-election, defeating the Liberal candidate Terry Boylan. He had a high local profile prior to the...
in Frome
Electoral district of Frome
Frome is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Edward Charles Frome, the third surveyor-general of South Australia. The electorate is based around the industrial city of Port Pirie and the agriculture areas of Clare and Gilbert...
retained their seats (the latter having won at the 2009 by-election), while independent candidate Don Pegler
Don Pegler
Donald William "Don" Pegler is an Australian politician. He has been an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the March 2010 election, representing the electorate of Mount Gambier....
won Mount Gambier
Electoral district of Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the southeast part of the state centered on the city and extinct volcano of Mount Gambier....
, replacing outgoing independent Rory McEwen
Rory McEwen
Rory McEwen , Australian politician, was the independent member for the seats of Gordon and Mount Gambier in the South Australian House of Assembly....
.
In the upper house, both major parties won four seats each, with the last three to the SA Greens, Family First
Family First Party
The Family First Party is a socially conservative minor political party in Australia. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council...
, and Dignity for Disability. The composition of the upper house therefore became eight Labor, seven Liberal, two Green, two Family First, two independent No Pokies
No Pokies
No Pokies is an independent South Australian Legislative Council ticket that contested the 1997, 2002, and 2006 statewide legislative council elections...
, and one Dignity for Disability.
Like federal elections, South Australia has compulsory voting
Compulsory voting
Compulsory voting is a system in which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. If an eligible voter does not attend a polling place, he or she may be subject to punitive measures such as fines, community service, or perhaps imprisonment if fines are unpaid...
, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting
Instant-runoff voting
Instant-runoff voting , also known as preferential voting, the alternative vote and ranked choice voting, is a voting system used to elect one winner. Voters rank candidates in order of preference, and their ballots are counted as one vote for their first choice candidate. If a candidate secures a...
in single member seats for the lower house and single transferable vote
Single transferable vote
The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...
group voting ticket
Group voting ticket
Group voting tickets are a way to simplify preferential voting, usually in an election held under the single transferable vote or the alternative vote system....
s in the proportionally represented
Proportional representation
Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...
upper house. The election was conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Australia (ECSA), an independent body answerable to Parliament.
Results
Lower house
- See also: Full results of the South Australian state election, 2010#Lower house
House of Assembly (IRV Instant-runoff votingInstant-runoff voting , also known as preferential voting, the alternative vote and ranked choice voting, is a voting system used to elect one winner. Voters rank candidates in order of preference, and their ballots are counted as one vote for their first choice candidate. If a candidate secures a...
) — Turnout 92.8% (CVCompulsory votingCompulsory voting is a system in which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. If an eligible voter does not attend a polling place, he or she may be subject to punitive measures such as fines, community service, or perhaps imprisonment if fines are unpaid...
) — Informal 3.3%Party Votes % Swing Seats Change Liberal Party of Australia Liberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...408,482 41.7 +7.7 18 +4 Australian Labor Party Australian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...367,480 37.5 −7.8 26 −2 SA Greens 79,535 8.1 +1.6 0 0 Family First Party Family First PartyThe Family First Party is a socially conservative minor political party in Australia. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council...52,769 5.4 −0.5 0 0 Nationals SA 10,279 1.0 −1.0 0 −1 Independent 46,108 4.7 +3.3 3 –1 Other 16,016 1.6 −3.3 0 0 Total 980,669 47 Australian Labor Party Australian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...WIN 48.4 −8.4 26 −2 Liberal Party of Australia Liberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...51.6 +8.4 18 +4
Independents: Bob Such
Bob Such
Robert Bruce "Bob" Such , Australian politician, is the member for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly, as an independent since 2000, and as member of the Liberal Party member from the 1989 election to 2000....
, Geoff Brock
Geoff Brock
Geoffrey Graeme "Geoff" Brock is a South Australian politician, representing the seat of Frome in the South Australian House of Assembly as an Independent, after a shock win at the 2009 Frome state by-election, defeating the Liberal candidate Terry Boylan. He had a high local profile prior to the...
, Don Pegler
Don Pegler
Donald William "Don" Pegler is an Australian politician. He has been an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the March 2010 election, representing the electorate of Mount Gambier....
Seat movement
| Seat | Pre-2010 | Swing | Post-2010 | ||||||
| Party | Member | Margin | Margin | Member | Party | ||||
| Adelaide Electoral district of Adelaide Adelaide is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly which includes Adelaide's central business district and suburbs in the inner north and inner north east... |
Labor | Jane Lomax-Smith Jane Lomax-Smith Jane Diane Lomax-Smith is a former Australian politician in the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Adelaide representing the Labor Party from 2002 to 2010, and Lord Mayor of Adelaide from 1997 to 2000... |
10.2 | 14.5 | 4.2 | Rachel Sanderson Rachel Sanderson Rachel Sanderson is an Australian politician representing the seat of Adelaide in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election.-Early life:... |
Liberal | ||
| Chaffey Electoral district of Chaffey Chaffey, created in 1936, is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the Riverland region of South Australia and is named after brothers George and William Chaffey who established the irrigation area along the Murray River from 1886... |
Nationals SA | Karlene Maywald Karlene Maywald Karlene Ann Maywald is an Australian National Party politician who represented the seat of Chaffey in the South Australian House of Assembly from October 1997 until March 2010... |
17.2 | 20.0 | 3.8 | Tim Whetstone Tim Whetstone Timothy John "Tim" Whetstone is an Australian politician representing the seat of Chaffey in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election.... |
Liberal | ||
| Mitchell Electoral district of Mitchell (South Australia) Mitchell is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the state of South Australia. It was first created in 1969 and is named after philosopher Sir William Mitchell... |
Independent | Kris Hanna Kris Hanna Kris Hanna was an Australian politician, and member for Mitchell in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1997 until 2010. Originally elected as a Labor member, Hanna defected to the SA Greens in 2003 before becoming an independent in 2006.... |
0.6 | N/A | 2.1* | Alan Sibbons Alan Sibbons Alan John Sibbons is an Australian politician elected to the seat of Mitchell as the Labor Party candidate in the South Australian House of Assembly at the March 2010 election, defeating Independent incumbent Kris Hanna.... |
Labor | ||
| Morialta Electoral district of Morialta Morialta is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Morialta is derived from a Kaurna Aboriginal word "mariyatala", with "mari" meaning east and "yertala" meaning water... |
Labor | Lindsay Simmons Lindsay Simmons Lindsay Anne Simmons is a former Australian politician, representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Morialta for the Australian Labor Party from her election in 2006 until the 2010 election.-Early life:... |
7.9 | 11.1 | 4.1 | John Gardner John Gardner (Australian politician) John Anthony William Gardner is an Australian politician representing the seat of Morialta in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election.... |
Liberal | ||
| Mount Gambier Electoral district of Mount Gambier Mount Gambier is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the southeast part of the state centered on the city and extinct volcano of Mount Gambier.... |
Independent | Rory McEwen Rory McEwen Rory McEwen , Australian politician, was the independent member for the seats of Gordon and Mount Gambier in the South Australian House of Assembly.... |
6.2* | N/A | 0.4* | Don Pegler Don Pegler Donald William "Don" Pegler is an Australian politician. He has been an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the March 2010 election, representing the electorate of Mount Gambier.... |
Independent | ||
| Norwood Electoral district of Norwood Norwood is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after its surrounding geographical area, Norwood, South Australia. Norwood is a 14.2 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's inner eastern suburbs... |
Labor | Vini Ciccarello Vini Ciccarello Vincenzina "Vini" Ciccarello , Australian politician, is a former Labor Party MP for the electoral district of Norwood. A mayor of Norwood for seven years, she was a well known identity in the eastern suburbs electorate.... |
4.2 | 8.8 | 4.9 | Steven Marshall Steven Marshall Steven Spence Marshall is an Australian politician representing the seat of Norwood in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election.... |
Liberal | ||
- *Figure is versus the Liberal Party. In the electoral district of Mount GambierElectoral district of Mount GambierMount Gambier is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the southeast part of the state centered on the city and extinct volcano of Mount Gambier....
, the incument independent Rory McEwenRory McEwenRory McEwen , Australian politician, was the independent member for the seats of Gordon and Mount Gambier in the South Australian House of Assembly....
did not re-contest his seat, and was expected to revert back to the Liberal Party. However, another independent, Don PeglerDon PeglerDonald William "Don" Pegler is an Australian politician. He has been an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the March 2010 election, representing the electorate of Mount Gambier....
, won the seat. - In the electoral district of FromeElectoral district of FromeFrome is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Edward Charles Frome, the third surveyor-general of South Australia. The electorate is based around the industrial city of Port Pirie and the agriculture areas of Clare and Gilbert...
, incumbent independent Geoff BrockGeoff BrockGeoffrey Graeme "Geoff" Brock is a South Australian politician, representing the seat of Frome in the South Australian House of Assembly as an Independent, after a shock win at the 2009 Frome state by-election, defeating the Liberal candidate Terry Boylan. He had a high local profile prior to the...
retained his seat won at the 2009 Frome by-election, held at the 2006 election by former leader of the Liberal Party and former Premier, Rob KerinRob KerinRobert Gerard Kerin was the Liberal Premier of South Australia from 22 October 2001 to 5 March 2002. He also served as Deputy Premier of South Australia to John Olsen from 7 July 1998 until he became premier upon Olsen's resignation....
.
Pendulum
The following Mackerras PendulumMackerras Pendulum
The Mackerras Pendulum was devised by the Australian psephologist Malcolm Mackerras as a way of predicting the outcome of an election contested between two major parties in a Westminster style lower house legislature such as the Australian House of Representatives, which is composed of...
works by lining up all of the seats according to the percentage point
Percentage point
Percentage points are the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages.Consider the following hypothetical example: in 1980, 40 percent of the population smoked, and in 1990 only 30 percent smoked...
margin post-election on a two-candidate-preferred
Two-party-preferred vote
In politics, the two-party-preferred vote , or two-candidate-preferred vote , in an election or opinion poll uses preferential voting to express the electoral result after the distribution of preferences...
basis.
| LABOR SEATS | |||
| Marginal | |||
| Bright Electoral district of Bright Bright is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers southern coastal suburbs of Adelaide including Hove, Brighton, Seacliff, Seacliff Park, Marino, Hallett Cove, Somerton Park, South Brighton, North Brighton and Kingston Park.... |
Chloe Fox Chloe Fox Chloë Catienne Fox is an Australian politician, and MP for the seat of Bright in the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2006 election, representing the Australian Labor Party... |
ALP | 0.4% |
| Mitchell Electoral district of Mitchell (South Australia) Mitchell is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the state of South Australia. It was first created in 1969 and is named after philosopher Sir William Mitchell... |
Alan Sibbons Alan Sibbons Alan John Sibbons is an Australian politician elected to the seat of Mitchell as the Labor Party candidate in the South Australian House of Assembly at the March 2010 election, defeating Independent incumbent Kris Hanna.... |
ALP | 2.1% |
| Newland Electoral district of Newland Newland is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after pioneer Simpson Newland, a prominent figure in nineteenth-century South Australia... |
Tom Kenyon Tom Kenyon Thomas Richard "Tom" Kenyon is an Australian politician. He is the Australian Labor Party member for the electoral district of Newland in the South Australian House of Assembly, having won the seat at the 2006 state election and returned at the 2010 state election.Kenyon was appointed as Minister... |
ALP | 2.2% |
| Hartley Electoral district of Hartley Hartley is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after John Hartley, a public servant responsible for creating much of South Australia's public education system... |
Grace Portolesi Grace Portolesi Grace Portolesi is a South Australian politician and Labor member for the electoral district of Hartley, having won the seat at the 2006 state election... |
ALP | 2.3% |
| Florey Electoral district of Florey Florey is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after scientist Howard Florey, who was responsible for the development of penicillin... |
Frances Bedford Frances Bedford Frances Ellen Bedford , Australian politician, is a member of the South Australian House of Assembly. She represents the electoral district of Florey and is a member of the Australian Labor Party.... |
ALP | 3.6% |
| Elder Electoral district of Elder Elder is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after nineteenth-century businessman and philanthropist Thomas Elder... |
Pat Conlon Patrick Conlon (politician) Patrick Frederick "Pat" Conlon is a South Australian politician. Since 1997 he has represented the Electoral district of Elder in the South Australian House of Assembly as a member of the Australian Labor Party. He is Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, and Minister for Energy,... |
ALP | 3.6% |
| Colton Electoral district of Colton Colton is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a 14.2 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's western beaches, taking in the suburbs of Fulham, Fulham Gardens, Grange, Henley Beach, Henley Beach South, Kidman Park as well as parts of... |
Paul Caica Paul Caica Paul Caica BA JP MP, , Australian politician, is a member of the South Australian House of Assembly. He represents the electoral district of Colton and is a member of the Australian Labor Party. A member of the Rann government cabinet since 2006, he is the current Minister for Environment and... |
ALP | 4.0% |
| Mawson Electoral district of Mawson The Electoral district of Mawson is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the outer southern suburbs of Woodcroft, Hackham, Hackham West, Huntfield Heights and Noarlunga Downs, as well as the regional shopping centre at Noarlunga as well as the southern wine region... |
Leon Bignell Leon Bignell Leon William Kennedy Bignell , Australian politician, is the member for Mawson for the Australian Labor Party. He finished ahead of incumbent Liberal member Robert Brokenshire by 3.9% on first preference and 2.2% of two party preferred in the 2006 state election, delivering the seat to Labor for... |
ALP | 4.4% |
| Wright Electoral district of Wright Wright is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the 19th century South Australian architect Edmund Wright, it is a 21.2 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's outer north-eastern suburbs, taking in the suburb of Salisbury East and... |
Jennifer Rankine Jennifer Rankine Jennifer Mary Rankine is the sitting Labor member for the electoral district of Wright, first won in 1997. She is also the current Minister for Families and Communities, Minister for the Northern Suburbs, Minister for Housing, Minister for Ageing, and Minister for Disability.The 2006 election saw... |
ALP | 4.6% |
| Ashford Electoral district of Ashford Ashford is an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly which includes many of Adelaide's inner south western suburbs. The district forms part of three federal electorates: the Division of Hindmarsh, the Division of Boothby, and the Division of Adelaide.The electorate's name dervives... |
Stephanie Key Stephanie Key Stephanie Wendy Key served as South Australia's Minister for Social Justice, Minister for Employment, Training & Further Education, Minister for Youth, and Minister for the Status of Women in the first Rann Labor government... |
ALP | 4.8% |
| Light Electoral district of Light Light is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Colonel William Light who was the first Surveyor-General of South Australia. The electorate was created in 1857, abolished in 1902 and reinstated in 1936... |
Tony Piccolo Tony Piccolo Tony Piccolo is an Australian politician, currently the Labor member for the electoral district of Light. He managed to win this seat in the 2006 state election with 52.1% on two party preference, a swing of 4.9% against the incumbent Liberal member, Malcolm Buckby... |
ALP | 5.3% |
| Fairly safe | |||
| Little Para Electoral district of Little Para Little Para is an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly in the northern suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area in South Australia.... |
Lee Odenwalder Lee Odenwalder Lee Kenny Odenwalder is an Australian politician elected to the seat of Little Para as the Labor Party candidate in the South Australian House of Assembly at the March 2010 election, after the resignation of the previous Labor Party incumbent Lea Stevens.... |
ALP | 6.7% |
| West Torrens Electoral district of West Torrens West Torrens is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the City of West Torrens because of its location on the River Torrens, it is a 26.7 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's western suburbs... |
Tom Koutsantonis Tom Koutsantonis Anastasios "Tom" Koutsantonis is a South Australian politician and a member of the Australian Labor Party, representing the seat of West Torrens in the South Australian House of Assembly... |
ALP | 6.7% |
| Lee Electoral district of Lee Lee is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the women's suffrage campaigner Mary Lee, it is a 17.6 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's north-western beaches, taking in the suburbs of Birkenhead, Ethelton, Exeter, Glanville,... |
Michael Wright Michael Wright (Australian politician) Michael John Wright is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Lee since 1997.... |
ALP | 7.1% |
| Torrens Electoral district of Torrens Torrens is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Located along the River Torrens, and named after Robert Richard Torrens, a 19th century Premier of South Australia, and also the founder of the "Torrens title" land registration system. Torrens is... |
Robyn Geraghty Robyn Geraghty Robyn Kathryn Geraghty has been the sitting Labor member for the electoral district of Torrens in South Australia since 1994.Geraghty has been heavily involved in community issues, as well as introducing various acts in to parliament... |
ALP | 7.7% |
| Kaurna Electoral district of Kaurna Kaurna is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the Kaurna aboriginal tribe which originally inhabited the Adelaide plains, it is a 67.2 km² semi-urban electorate on Adelaide's far-southern beaches, taking in the suburbs of... |
John Hill John Hill (Australian politician) John David Hill , Australian politician, is the current South Australian Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts in the Rann Government... |
ALP | 8.6% |
| Safe | |||
| Reynell Electoral district of Reynell Reynell is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after John Reynell, a leading force in the founding of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia and noted 19th century grape farmer and vineyard owner in the area... |
Gay Thompson Gay Thompson Mary Gabrielle Thompson has been the Labor member for the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Reynell since 1997.... |
ALP | 10.4% |
| Enfield Electoral district of Enfield Enfield is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the suburb of the same name, it is a 20 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's inner northern suburbs, taking in the suburbs of Angle Park, Broadview, Clearview, Enfield, Ferryden... |
John Rau John Rau John Robert Rau , Australian politician, is the current South Australian Deputy Premier and Attorney-General. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Assembly seat of Enfield since 2002.-Legal career:... |
ALP | 10.5% |
| Taylor Electoral district of Taylor Taylor is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. This district is named after Doris Irene Taylor MBE, a leading force in the founding of Meals on Wheels, and Australian Labor Party activist. Taylor is a 549.8 km² semi-urban electorate in... |
Leesa Vlahos Leesa Vlahos Leesa Anne Vlahos is an Australian politician elected to the seat of Taylor as the Labor Party candidate in the South Australian House of Assembly at the March 2010 election, after the resignation of the previous Labor Party incumbent Trish White.-References:... |
ALP | 11.1% |
| Giles Electoral district of Giles Giles is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. The electorate, named after explorer Ernest Giles, is the largest in South Australia, covering a 500,738.0km² swathe of outback South Australia... |
Lyn Breuer Lyn Breuer Lynette Ruth "Lyn" Breuer , Australian politician, represents the electoral district of Giles in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Australian Labor Party... |
ALP | 11.9% |
| Port Adelaide Electoral district of Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after Port Adelaide because of its geographical location, it is a 113.4 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's Lefevre Peninsula and stretches east to cove some of Adelaide's northern... |
Kevin Foley Kevin Foley Kevin Owen Foley , Australian politician, is the current Minister for Industry and Trade and Minister for Federal/State Relations in the Rann Labor government. He previously served as Treasurer of South Australia and Deputy Premier of South Australia from 2002 until his resignation in 2011... |
ALP | 12.8% |
| Croydon | Michael Atkinson Michael Atkinson Michael John Atkinson , an Australian politician, was the South Australian Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the Rann Labor Government. A day after the 2010 election, he stepped down as Attorney-General and resigned... |
ALP | 14.1% |
| Napier Electoral district of Napier Napier is an electorate created in 1976 for the South Australian Legislative Assembly in the northern suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area of South Australia.... |
Michael O'Brien Michael O'Brien (Australian politician) Michael O'Brien is the Labor member for Napier in the South Australian House of Assembly. He was first elected in 2002, replacing Annette Hurley... |
ALP | 15.8% |
| Cheltenham Electoral district of Cheltenham Cheltenham is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the suburb of the same name, it is a 17.3km² urban rectangular-shaped electorate in Adelaide's north-west, taking in the suburbs of Alberton, Albert Park, Athol Park, Cheltenham,... |
Jay Weatherill Jay Weatherill Jay Wilson Weatherill is an Australian politician and current Premier of South Australia. He has represented the electoral district of Cheltenham in the South Australian House of Assembly as a member of the Australian Labor Party since the 2002 election.-Early life:Born in the western suburbs of... |
ALP | 16.1% |
| Playford Electoral district of Playford Playford is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the long serving South Australian premier Tom Playford, it is a 21.4 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's northern suburbs, taking in the suburb of Ingle Farm, Para Hills West,... |
Jack Snelling Jack Snelling John James "Jack" Snelling is an Australian politician who has been the sitting Labor member for the electoral district of Playford in the South Australian House of Assembly since the 1997 election.... |
ALP | 16.2% |
| Ramsay Electoral district of Ramsay Ramsay is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Alexander Ramsay , who was General Manager of the South Australian Housing Trust for 25 years and devoted to the improvement of South Australian life... |
Mike Rann Mike Rann Michael David Rann MHA, CNZM , Australian politician, served as the 44th Premier of South Australia. He led the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party to minority government at the 2002 election, before attaining a landslide win at the 2006 election... |
ALP | 18.0% |
| Very safe | |||
| LIBERAL SEATS | |||
| Marginal | |||
| Chaffey Electoral district of Chaffey Chaffey, created in 1936, is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the Riverland region of South Australia and is named after brothers George and William Chaffey who established the irrigation area along the Murray River from 1886... |
Tim Whetstone Tim Whetstone Timothy John "Tim" Whetstone is an Australian politician representing the seat of Chaffey in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election.... |
LIB | 3.8% v NAT |
| Morialta Electoral district of Morialta Morialta is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Morialta is derived from a Kaurna Aboriginal word "mariyatala", with "mari" meaning east and "yertala" meaning water... |
John Gardner John Gardner (Australian politician) John Anthony William Gardner is an Australian politician representing the seat of Morialta in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election.... |
LIB | 4.1% |
| Adelaide Electoral district of Adelaide Adelaide is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly which includes Adelaide's central business district and suburbs in the inner north and inner north east... |
Rachel Sanderson Rachel Sanderson Rachel Sanderson is an Australian politician representing the seat of Adelaide in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election.-Early life:... |
LIB | 4.2% |
| Norwood Electoral district of Norwood Norwood is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after its surrounding geographical area, Norwood, South Australia. Norwood is a 14.2 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's inner eastern suburbs... |
Steven Marshall Steven Marshall Steven Spence Marshall is an Australian politician representing the seat of Norwood in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election.... |
LIB | 4.9% |
| Fairly safe | |||
| Stuart Electoral district of Stuart Stuart is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the northeast part of the state extending from just north of the Barossa Valley all the way to the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales borders, and extending west to include Port Augusta... |
Dan van Holst Pellekaan Dan van Holst Pellekaan Daniel Cornelis "Dan" van Holst Pellekaan is an Australian politician elected to the seat of Stuart as the Liberal Party candidate in the South Australian House of Assembly at the March 2010 election, after the resignation of the previous Liberal Party incumbent Graham Gunn.-References:... |
LIB | 7.6% |
| Safe | |||
| Morphett Electoral district of Morphett Morphett is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the state of South Australia.Created in 1976 following an electoral redistribution, the seat of Morphett was named after Sir John Morphett who lived in the Morphettville area and was speaker of the enlarged Legislative Council in 1851... |
Duncan McFetridge Duncan McFetridge Duncan McFetridge is an Australian politician representing the seat of Morphett in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2002 election. He was re-elected at the 2006 and 2010 elections.... |
LIB | 11.1% |
| Finniss Electoral district of Finniss Finniss is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Boyle Finniss, the first Premier of South Australia... |
Michael Pengilly Michael Pengilly Michael Redding Pengilly is an Australian politician who took over from retiring sitting member and former Premier Dean Brown for the safe Liberal seat of Finniss at the 2006 election.... |
LIB | 11.2% |
| Davenport Electoral district of Davenport Davenport is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after nineteenth-century pioneer and politician Sir Samuel Davenport. Davenport is a 37.4 km² electorate covering part of outer suburban Adelaide and the southern foothills of... |
Iain Evans Iain Evans Iain Frederick Evans is a South Australian Liberal Party politician. He studied at Heathfield High School and gained a Bachelor Degree for Building Technology from the SA Institute of Technology . Prior to entering politics he managed a family-owned building and retailing business... |
LIB | 11.8% |
| Unley Electoral district of Unley Unley is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the suburb of the same name, it is a 12.2 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's inner southern suburbs, taking in the suburbs of Eastwood, Frewville, Fullarton, Glenunga, Highgate, Hyde... |
David Pisoni David Pisoni David Gregory Pisoni is a South Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly since 2006, representing the electorate of Unley.... |
LIB | 12.2% |
| Waite Electoral district of Waite Waite is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after Peter Waite, a 19th entrepreneur and philanthropist in the current area of the electorate, it is a 30.6km² urban electorate in Adelaide's inner south-eastern suburbs, taking in the... |
Martin Hamilton-Smith Martin Hamilton-Smith Martin Leslie James Hamilton-Smith is the member for the electoral district of Waite in the South Australian House of Assembly since 1997... |
LIB | 12.9% |
| Kavel Electoral district of Kavel Kavel, created in 1969, is an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia.Kavel is named after Lutheran pastor August Kavel who migrated to South Australia from Germany in 1838 with approximately 250 people seeking freedom from religious... |
Mark Goldsworthy Mark Goldsworthy Roger Mark Goldsworthy is an Australian politician who has been the sitting Liberal member for the electoral district of Kavel since 2002.... |
LIB | 15.8% |
| Heysen Electoral district of Heysen Heysen is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Sir Hans Heysen, a prominent South Australian landscape artist. It is a 616 km² electoral district stretching from residential suburbs in the east and southeast of Adelaide... |
Isobel Redmond Isobel Redmond Isobel Mary Redmond is the current parliamentary leader of the South Australian division of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Australia since 2009. The Redmond Liberals won 18 of 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly at the 2010... |
LIB | 16.5% |
| Schubert Electoral district of Schubert Schubert is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Max Schubert, the winemaker of Grange Hermitage... |
Ivan Venning Ivan Venning Ivan Howard Venning is an Australian politician and Liberal Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly since 1990.... |
LIB | 17.8% |
| Goyder Electoral district of Goyder Goyder is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a 10,406.4 km² rural electorate based around the Yorke Peninsula and taking in the towns of Ardrossan, Bute, Corny Point, Edithburgh, Maitland, Minlaton, Moonta, Owen, Port Wakefield,... |
Steven Griffiths Steven Griffiths Steven Paul Griffiths is a former parliamentary deputy leader of the South Australian division of the Liberal Party of Australia and the deputy Leader of the Opposition in South Australia since 2009, and member for the electoral district of Goyder in the House of Assembly since 2006.Griffiths was... |
LIB | 18.3% |
| Hammond Electoral district of Hammond Hammond is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Ruby Hammond, the first indigenous woman to stand for the South Australian parliament... |
Adrian Pederick Adrian Pederick Adrian Stephen Pederick is an Australian politician who won the safe Liberal seat of Hammond for the Liberal party, re-claiming it back from Liberal-turned-independent Peter Lewis who left to contest a seat in the Upper House.... |
LIB | 19.0% |
| Very safe | |||
| MacKillop Electoral district of MacKillop MacKillop is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named in 1991 after Mary MacKillop , who served the local area, it is a 24,358.3 km² rural electorate in the south-east of the state, stretching from the mouth of the Murray River... |
Mitch Williams Mitch Williams (Australian politician) Michael Richard "Mitch" Williams is a South Australian Liberal politician and farmer. He is currently the deputy opposition leader in the South Australian parliament. He resigned from the Liberal Party and was elected to the safe Liberal seat of MacKillop in the state's south east at the 1997... |
LIB | 20.1% v IND |
| Bragg Electoral district of Bragg Bragg is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. The seat of Bragg is named after the eminent physicists Bragg – William Henry and his son, William Lawrence. The electorate is largely urban and encompasses a significant portion of the City of... |
Vickie Chapman Vickie Chapman Vickie Ann Chapman is an Australian politician, representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bragg for the Liberal Party since 2002. She was Deputy Leader of the South Australian Opposition from 30 March 2006 until 4 July 2009.-Early life:Chapman was born in Kangaroo Island... |
LIB | 21.1% |
| Flinders Electoral district of Flinders Flinders is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 55,260.6 km² coastal rural electorate encompassing the Eyre Peninsula and... |
Peter Treloar Peter Treloar Peter Andrew Treloar is an Australian politician elected to the seat of Flinders as the Liberal Party candidate in the South Australian House of Assembly at the March 2010 election, after the resignation of the previous Liberal Party incumbent Liz Penfold.... |
LIB | 26.2% |
| INDEPENDENT SEATS | |||
| Mt Gambier Electoral district of Mount Gambier Mount Gambier is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the southeast part of the state centered on the city and extinct volcano of Mount Gambier.... |
Don Pegler Don Pegler Donald William "Don" Pegler is an Australian politician. He has been an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the March 2010 election, representing the electorate of Mount Gambier.... |
IND | 0.4% v LIB |
| Frome Electoral district of Frome Frome is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Edward Charles Frome, the third surveyor-general of South Australia. The electorate is based around the industrial city of Port Pirie and the agriculture areas of Clare and Gilbert... |
Geoff Brock Geoff Brock Geoffrey Graeme "Geoff" Brock is a South Australian politician, representing the seat of Frome in the South Australian House of Assembly as an Independent, after a shock win at the 2009 Frome state by-election, defeating the Liberal candidate Terry Boylan. He had a high local profile prior to the... |
IND | 7.5% v LIB |
| Fisher Electoral district of Fisher Fisher is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after James Fisher, a colonial politician and the first mayor of Adelaide... |
Bob Such Bob Such Robert Bruce "Bob" Such , Australian politician, is the member for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly, as an independent since 2000, and as member of the Liberal Party member from the 1989 election to 2000.... |
IND | 16.6% v LIB |
Upper house
- See also: Full results of the South Australian state election, 2010#Upper house
Legislative Council (STV Single transferable voteThe single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...
GVGroup voting ticketGroup voting tickets are a way to simplify preferential voting, usually in an election held under the single transferable vote or the alternative vote system....
) — Turnout 92.9% (CVCompulsory votingCompulsory voting is a system in which electors are obliged to vote in elections or attend a polling place on voting day. If an eligible voter does not attend a polling place, he or she may be subject to punitive measures such as fines, community service, or perhaps imprisonment if fines are unpaid...
) — Informal 5.8%Party Votes % Swing Seats Won Total Seats Change Liberal Party of Australia Liberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...376,786 39.4 +13.4 4 7 –1 Australian Labor Party Australian Labor PartyThe Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...356,626 37.3 +0.7 4 8 0 SA Greens Greens South AustraliaGreens South Australia is a Green Party located in South Australia, a member of the federation of the Australian Greens party.The party has four members currently elected to parliament, Mark Parnell and Tammy Franks in the South Australian Legislative Council and Sarah Hanson-Young and Penny Wright...63,358 6.6 +2.3 1 2 +1 Family First Party Family First PartyThe Family First Party is a socially conservative minor political party in Australia. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council...42,187 4.4 –0.6 1 2 0 Dignity for Disability 11,271 1.2 +0.6 1 1 +1 Other 106,444 11.1 +4.1 0 0 –1 No Pokies No PokiesNo Pokies is an independent South Australian Legislative Council ticket that contested the 1997, 2002, and 2006 statewide legislative council elections...–20.5 2 0 Total 956,672 11 22
Prior to the election, of 22 seats, Labor and the Liberals held eight seats each, Family First and No Pokies held two seats each, and the Greens and Democrat
Australian Democrats
The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New LM, after principals of those minor parties secured the commitment of former Liberal minister Don Chipp, as a high profile leader...
-turned-independent David Winderlich
David Winderlich
David Winderlich , is an Australian teacher, public servant and politician who in 2009 was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the South Australian Legislative Council following the November 2008 resignation of Australian Democrats member Sandra Kanck...
held one seat each. Up for election were five Liberal, four Labor, one Family First, and Winderlich. Labor and the Liberals won four seats each, with one each to Family First and the Greens, with the last spot to Dignity for Disability candidate Kelly Vincent
Kelly Vincent
Kelly Leah Vincent is an Australian playwright, actress and politician elected to the eleventh and last seat for an 8-year term in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 2010 state election for the Dignity for Disability party....
. This gives an upper house composition of eight Labor, seven Liberal, two Greens, two Family First, two independent No Pokies, and one Dignity for Disability.
Campaign
Rann Labor opened the campaign by announcing the duplication (one-way to two-way) of the Southern ExpresswaySouthern Expressway
The Southern Expressway is the world's longest reversible one way freeway. Originally proposed as 'Noarlunga Freeway', it was built as a corridor to relieve heavy traffic from the major arterial, Main South Road, in Adelaide's south. The expressway was built in two stages — the first...
, due to be completed by 2014. Additional specialist math and science teachers for South Australian high schools were announced. Tens of thousands of extra training places and apprenticeships as part of a pledge to create 100,000 extra jobs during the next six years, despite a healthy economy, assisted by mining and defence industries, and the lowest state unemployment figures in the country.
Under Labor, the Royal Adelaide Hospital
Royal Adelaide Hospital
The Royal Adelaide Hospital is Adelaide's largest hospital, with 680 beds. Founded in 1840, the Royal Adelaide provides tertiary health care services for South Australia and provides secondary care clinical services to residents of Adelaide's city centre and inner suburbs.The hospital is situated...
would be abandoned and a new hospital built on the site of the old rail yards, moving Adelaide's main hospital from the eastern end to the western end of North Terrace
North Terrace, Adelaide
North Terrace is one of the four terraces that bound the central business and residential district of the city of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It runs east-west, along the northern edge of the CBD.-North Side of North Terrace:...
in the Central Business District
Adelaide city centre
The Adelaide city centre is the innermost locality of Greater Adelaide, known by locals simply as "The City" or "Town". The locality is split into two key geographical distinctions: the city "square mile", bordered by North, East, South and West Terraces; and that part of the Adelaide Parklands...
, within the electoral district of Adelaide
Electoral district of Adelaide
Adelaide is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly which includes Adelaide's central business district and suburbs in the inner north and inner north east...
. The Liberals and minor party Save the RAH
Save the RAH
Save the RAH is a minor political party in South Australia, a single-issue party with the aim of stopping the relocation of Adelaide's main hospital, the Royal Adelaide Hospital . It ran candidates in 11 of the 47 seats in the House of Assembly at the 2010 state election. The party received 5,381...
were campaigning against this, with the Liberals proposing renovations on the current site.
Australian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
(AFL) games and other sporting events are expected to be moved away from AAMI Stadium
AAMI Stadium
Football Park is an Australian rules football stadium located in West Lakes, a western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia...
to new grounds. The Liberals proposed a new sports stadium on the old rail yards, while Labor proposed a major overhaul of Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval
The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the Central Business District and North Adelaide...
, also in the electoral district of Adelaide.
A large unfunded liability within the workers compensation scheme known as WorkCover
WorkCoverSA
WorkCoverSA, commonly known in South Australia as WorkCover, is a government authority established by the Government of South Australia.It is has three functions:* Policing occupational health and safety legislation* Providing worker's compensation...
had had built up under both Labor and Liberal governments, which sparked sweeping payout reductions under the last term of the Rann government, with the legislation passed in Parliament by both major parties, but came under sustained criticism from both the left and the right. The left were critical of monetary cuts to injured or otherwise incapable workers (see 2008 Parnell–Bressington filibuster), while the Liberals attacked WorkCover's operations, claiming there was wasteful duplication and a decrease in accountability, argued that this contributed to its budget problems, and that under a Liberal government WorkCover's insurance and regulatory arms would be split.
Attorney-General Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson
Michael John Atkinson , an Australian politician, was the South Australian Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the Rann Labor Government. A day after the 2010 election, he stepped down as Attorney-General and resigned...
had been the subject of sustained criticism by the internet generation
Generation Z
Generation Z is a common name in the US and other Western nations for the group of people born from the early 1990s through to the present....
demographic for refusing to allow classification of and therefore legally allow certain types of explicit media (see Michael Atkinson#Media classification and censorship). Gamers 4 Croydon
Gamers 4 Croydon
Gamers 4 Croydon is a minor political party in South Australia which contested the 2010 state election.-History:The party has a strong anti-censorship message, particularly relating to the lack of an R18+ classification for video games in Australia...
was created and contested Atkinson's seat of Croydon, as well as Adelaide
Electoral district of Adelaide
Adelaide is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly which includes Adelaide's central business district and suburbs in the inner north and inner north east...
, Norwood
Electoral district of Norwood
Norwood is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after its surrounding geographical area, Norwood, South Australia. Norwood is a 14.2 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's inner eastern suburbs...
, Light
Electoral district of Light
Light is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Colonel William Light who was the first Surveyor-General of South Australia. The electorate was created in 1857, abolished in 1902 and reinstated in 1936...
, Mawson
Electoral district of Mawson
The Electoral district of Mawson is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the outer southern suburbs of Woodcroft, Hackham, Hackham West, Huntfield Heights and Noarlunga Downs, as well as the regional shopping centre at Noarlunga as well as the southern wine region...
, and the upper house. Though the Liberals had not pledged a different stance on the issue, Atkinson suffered a larger than average primary swing of 16 points and two-party-preferred swing of 12 points in his seat. Following the election, Atkinson announced his immediate resignation from the Rann ministry, and that he would not recontest his seat at the next election
South Australian state election, 2014
The 2014 South Australian state election will elect members to the 53rd Parliament of South Australia on 15 March 2014. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2010 election, and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house, last...
. It was announced that the new Rann Labor Attorney General would be John Rau
John Rau
John Robert Rau , Australian politician, is the current South Australian Deputy Premier and Attorney-General. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Assembly seat of Enfield since 2002.-Legal career:...
, who expressed that he held a different view to his predecessor, and would be talking with his interstate counterparts at the next meeting of Attorney Generals.
The election campaign was overshadowed by affair allegations against Rann.
Although it was apparent only a few hours after the polls closed that Rann Labor had retained majority government
Majority government
A majority government is when the governing party has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system. This is as opposed to a minority government, where even the largest party wins only a plurality of seats and thus must constantly bargain for support from...
, it was four days after the election that Rann officially claimed victory, after Redmond eventually conceded that the Liberals had not won enough seats to be capable of forming a government. The Governor of South Australia subsequently re-appointed Mike Rann
Mike Rann
Michael David Rann MHA, CNZM , Australian politician, served as the 44th Premier of South Australia. He led the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party to minority government at the 2002 election, before attaining a landslide win at the 2006 election...
as Premier of South Australia.
Liberal
- Graham GunnGraham GunnGraham McDonald Gunn, AM , Australian politician, was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly. He represented the electoral district of Stuart and was a member of the Liberal Party of Australia...
, MHA in StuartElectoral district of StuartStuart is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the northeast part of the state extending from just north of the Barossa Valley all the way to the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales borders, and extending west to include Port Augusta...
. Preselection is former national basketball player Dan van Holst Pellekaan. - Liz PenfoldLiz PenfoldElizabeth Meryl "Liz" Penfold was an Australian politician who represented the seat of Flinders in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party from 1993 to 2010....
, MHA in FlindersElectoral district of FlindersFlinders is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 55,260.6 km² coastal rural electorate encompassing the Eyre Peninsula and...
. Preselection is Australian Farmers' Federation Grains Council chairman Peter Treloar. - Robert Lawson, MLC.
- Caroline SchaeferCaroline SchaeferCaroline Veronica Schaefer is an Australian politician, and a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1993 to 2010....
, MLC.
Labor
- Lea StevensLea StevensLea Stevens is an Australian politician and was the sitting Labor party member for the electoral district of Little Para from the 1994 Elizabeth by-election to the 2010 state election....
, MHA in Little ParaElectoral district of Little ParaLittle Para is an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly in the northern suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area in South Australia....
. Preselection is former police officer Lee Odenwalder. - Trish WhiteTrish WhitePatricia Lynne "Trish" White is a company director and former Australian politician, representing Taylor in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Australian Labor Party...
, MHA in TaylorElectoral district of TaylorTaylor is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. This district is named after Doris Irene Taylor MBE, a leading force in the founding of Meals on Wheels, and Australian Labor Party activist. Taylor is a 549.8 km² semi-urban electorate in...
. Preselection is former Labor assistant secretary Leesa Vlahos.
Other
- Rory McEwenRory McEwenRory McEwen , Australian politician, was the independent member for the seats of Gordon and Mount Gambier in the South Australian House of Assembly....
, Independent MHA in Mount GambierElectoral district of Mount GambierMount Gambier is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the southeast part of the state centered on the city and extinct volcano of Mount Gambier....
. Liberal preselection is Mount Gambier Mayor Steve Perryman.
Polling
NewspollNewspoll
Newspoll Market Research is an Australian company providing opinion polling and other market research services. Its chief executive is Martin O'Shannessy.Newspoll's surveys of voter opinion are published in The Australian....
polling is conducted via random telephone number selection in city and country areas. Sampling sizes
Sample size
Sample size determination is the act of choosing the number of observations to include in a statistical sample. The sample size is an important feature of any empirical study in which the goal is to make inferences about a population from a sample...
consist of just under 900 electors, with the 14–18 March 2010 poll consisting of just under 1600 electors. The declared margin of error
Margin of error
The margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in a survey's results. The larger the margin of error, the less faith one should have that the poll's reported results are close to the "true" figures; that is, the figures for the whole population...
s are ± 3.5 percent and ± 2.5 percent respectively.
| Labor Rann |
Liberal Redmond |
|
|---|---|---|
| 14–18 Mar 2010 | 43% | 45% |
| Jan–Mar 2010 | 44% | 41% |
| Oct–Dec 2009 | 48% | 31% |
| Jul–Aug 2009 | 46% | 27% |
| Jan–Mar 2009 | 53% | 24%3 |
| Oct–Dec 2008 | 50% | 26%3 |
| Jul–Sep 2008 | 48% | 30%3 |
| Apr–Jun 2008 | 54% | 27%3 |
| Jan–Mar 2008 | 54% | 24%3 |
| Oct–Dec 2007 | 50% | 25%3 |
| Jul–Sep 2007 | 52% | 26%3 |
| Apr–Jun 2007 | 52% | 21%3 |
| Jan–Mar 2007 | 64% | 14%2 |
| Oct–Dec 2006 | 61% | 14%2 |
| Pre 2006 election | 63% | 21%1 |
| Pre 2002 election | 30% | 50%1 |
| Polling conducted by Newspoll Newspoll Newspoll Market Research is an Australian company providing opinion polling and other market research services. Its chief executive is Martin O'Shannessy.Newspoll's surveys of voter opinion are published in The Australian.... and published in The Australian The Australian The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly.... . ^ Remainder were "uncommitted" to either leader. 1 Rob Kerin Rob Kerin Robert Gerard Kerin was the Liberal Premier of South Australia from 22 October 2001 to 5 March 2002. He also served as Deputy Premier of South Australia to John Olsen from 7 July 1998 until he became premier upon Olsen's resignation.... , 2 Iain Evans Iain Evans Iain Frederick Evans is a South Australian Liberal Party politician. He studied at Heathfield High School and gained a Bachelor Degree for Building Technology from the SA Institute of Technology . Prior to entering politics he managed a family-owned building and retailing business... , 3 Martin Hamilton-Smith Martin Hamilton-Smith Martin Leslie James Hamilton-Smith is the member for the electoral district of Waite in the South Australian House of Assembly since 1997... |
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| Primary vote | 2PP vote | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALP | Lib | Nat | Dem | FFP | Grn | Oth | ALP | Lib | ||
| 2010 Election | 37.5% | 41.7% | 1.0% | 0.4% | 5.4% | 8.1% | 5.9% | 48.4% | 51.6% | |
| 14–18 Mar 2010 | 35.3% | 42.5% | < .5% | < .5% | 3.2% | 9.3% | 9.1% | 48% | 52% | |
| Jan–Mar 2010 | 36% | 39% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 10% | 12% | 50% | 50% | |
| Oct–Dec 2009 | 37% | 35% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 12% | 13% | 53% | 47% | |
| Jul–Aug 2009 | 41% | 33% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 11% | 12% | 56% | 44% | |
| Jan–Mar 2009 | 42% | 34% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 10% | 11% | 56% | 44% | |
| Oct–Dec 2008 | 39% | 35% | 1% | < .5% | 1% | 13% | 11% | 54% | 46% | |
| Jul–Sep 2008 | 38% | 40% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 8% | 11% | 50% | 50% | |
| Apr–Jun 2008 | 41% | 35% | 1% | < .5% | 2% | 12% | 9% | 54% | 46% | |
| Jan–Mar 2008 | 41% | 37% | < .5% | 1% | 1% | 8% | 10% | 53% | 47% | |
| Oct–Dec 2007 | 42% | 36% | 1% | 2% | 3% | 7% | 9% | 54% | 46% | |
| Jul–Sep 2007 | 48% | 33% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 6% | 8% | 59% | 41% | |
| Apr–Jun 2007 | 47% | 35% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 5% | 9% | 57% | 43% | |
| Jan–Mar 2007 | 48% | 29% | 1% | 4% | 2% | 6% | 10% | 61% | 39% | |
| Oct–Dec 2006 | 47% | 33% | 1% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 10% | 58% | 42% | |
| 2006 Election | 45.2% | 34% | 2.1% | 2.9% | 5.9% | 6.5% | 3.4% | 56.8% | 43.2% | |
| 15–16 Mar 2006 | 46% | 33% | 1.5% | 1.5% | 3% | 4% | 11% | 57% | 43% | |
| Jan–Feb 2006 | 44% | 37% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 10% | 54% | 46% | |
| Oct–Dec 2005 | 46% | 35% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 4% | 10% | 56% | 43% | |
| Jul–Sep 2005 | 45% | 38% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 4% | 9% | 54% | 46% | |
| Apr–Jun 2005 | 46% | 37% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 4% | 8% | 55% | 45% | |
| Jan–Mar 2005 | 45% | 40% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 5% | 7% | 53% | 47% | |
| Oct–Dec 2004 | 42% | 42% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 4% | 7% | 49% | 51% | |
| 2002 Election | 36.3% | 40% | 1.5% | 7.5% | 2.6% | 2.4% | 9.7% | 49.1% | 50.9% | |
| Polling conducted by Newspoll Newspoll Newspoll Market Research is an Australian company providing opinion polling and other market research services. Its chief executive is Martin O'Shannessy.Newspoll's surveys of voter opinion are published in The Australian.... and published in The Australian The Australian The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly.... . |
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Date
The last state election was held on 18 March 2006 to elect members for the House of AssemblySouth Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.- Overview :...
and half of the members in the Legislative Council
South Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the House of Assembly...
. In South Australia, section 28 of the Constitution Act 1934, as amended in 2001, directs that parliaments have fixed four-year terms, and elections must be held on the third Saturday in March every four years unless this date falls the day after Good Friday or occurs within the same month as a Commonwealth election, or the conduct of the election could be adversely affected by a state disaster. Section 28 also states that the Governor may also dissolve the Assembly and call an election for an earlier date if the Government has lost the confidence of the Assembly or a bill of special importance has been rejected by the Legislative Council. Section 41 states that both the Council and the Assembly may also be dissolved simultaneously if a deadlock occurs between them.
The election campaign must run for a minimum of 25 days or a maximum of 55 days, therefore the Governor would need to have issued writs for the election by 23 February 2010 at the latest. Between 7 and 10 days after that date, the electoral roll is closed, which gives voters a final opportunity to enrol or to notify the State Electoral Office of any changes in their place of residence. Candidates wishing to stand for election can nominate between the issue of the writs and no more than 14 days after the close of rolls for a deposit of $450.
The writs were issued 20 February, the electoral roll closed 2 March, and candidate nominations closed 5 March.
Previous Parliament
- See also: 2006 election pendulum and maps
The centre-left
Centre-left
Centre-left is a political term that describes individuals, political parties or organisations such as think tanks whose ideology lies between the centre and the left on the left-right spectrum...
Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
, led by Premier Mike Rann
Mike Rann
Michael David Rann MHA, CNZM , Australian politician, served as the 44th Premier of South Australia. He led the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party to minority government at the 2002 election, before attaining a landslide win at the 2006 election...
, and the centre-right
Centre-right
The centre-right or center-right is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political parties, or organizations whose views stretch from the centre to the right on the left-right spectrum, excluding far right stances. Centre-right can also describe a coalition of centrist...
Liberal Party
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
, led by Leader of the Opposition
Leader of the Opposition (South Australia)
The Leader of the Opposition in South Australia is the leader of the largest minority political party or coalition of parties, known as the Opposition, in the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia. By convention, he or she is generally a member of the House of Assembly...
Isobel Redmond
Isobel Redmond
Isobel Mary Redmond is the current parliamentary leader of the South Australian division of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Australia since 2009. The Redmond Liberals won 18 of 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly at the 2010...
, are the two main parties in South Australia. In the 2006 state election, of 47 seats total, Labor won 28 seats, the Liberals won 15 seats and the Nationals, who are not in coalition with the Liberals in South Australia, retained their seat through minister Karlene Maywald
Karlene Maywald
Karlene Ann Maywald is an Australian National Party politician who represented the seat of Chaffey in the South Australian House of Assembly from October 1997 until March 2010...
(Chaffey
Electoral district of Chaffey
Chaffey, created in 1936, is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the Riverland region of South Australia and is named after brothers George and William Chaffey who established the irrigation area along the Murray River from 1886...
). Three seats were retained by independents, minister Rory McEwen
Rory McEwen
Rory McEwen , Australian politician, was the independent member for the seats of Gordon and Mount Gambier in the South Australian House of Assembly....
(Mount Gambier
Electoral district of Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the southeast part of the state centered on the city and extinct volcano of Mount Gambier....
), Bob Such
Bob Such
Robert Bruce "Bob" Such , Australian politician, is the member for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly, as an independent since 2000, and as member of the Liberal Party member from the 1989 election to 2000....
(Fisher
Electoral district of Fisher
Fisher is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after James Fisher, a colonial politician and the first mayor of Adelaide...
) and Kris Hanna
Kris Hanna
Kris Hanna was an Australian politician, and member for Mitchell in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1997 until 2010. Originally elected as a Labor member, Hanna defected to the SA Greens in 2003 before becoming an independent in 2006....
(Mitchell
Electoral district of Mitchell (South Australia)
Mitchell is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the state of South Australia. It was first created in 1969 and is named after philosopher Sir William Mitchell...
). Smaller parties which held no seats in the lower House but achieved significant votes in 2006 included the SA Greens and the Family First Party
Family First Party
The Family First Party is a socially conservative minor political party in Australia. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council...
.
Former Liberal Premier Rob Kerin
Rob Kerin
Robert Gerard Kerin was the Liberal Premier of South Australia from 22 October 2001 to 5 March 2002. He also served as Deputy Premier of South Australia to John Olsen from 7 July 1998 until he became premier upon Olsen's resignation....
resigned in November 2008, which triggered a Frome by-election
Frome state by-election, 2009
A by-election was held for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Frome on 17 January 2009. This was triggered by the resignation of former Premier and state Liberal MHA Rob Kerin...
on 17 January 2009. Independent Geoff Brock
Geoff Brock
Geoffrey Graeme "Geoff" Brock is a South Australian politician, representing the seat of Frome in the South Australian House of Assembly as an Independent, after a shock win at the 2009 Frome state by-election, defeating the Liberal candidate Terry Boylan. He had a high local profile prior to the...
won the seat, reducing the Liberals to 14 seats.
In the South Australian Legislative Council
South Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the House of Assembly...
, the Labor Party and the Liberal Party held eight seats each, whilst No Pokies
No Pokies
No Pokies is an independent South Australian Legislative Council ticket that contested the 1997, 2002, and 2006 statewide legislative council elections...
and Family First
Family First Party
The Family First Party is a socially conservative minor political party in Australia. It has two members in the South Australian Legislative Council...
held two seats each. The SA Greens and an ex-Democrat
Australian Democrats
The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New LM, after principals of those minor parties secured the commitment of former Liberal minister Don Chipp, as a high profile leader...
independent held one seat each. Half of the upper house was up for election in 2010, four Labor and five Liberal, one Family First and one ex-Democrat independent.
No Pokies
No Pokies
No Pokies is an independent South Australian Legislative Council ticket that contested the 1997, 2002, and 2006 statewide legislative council elections...
MP Nick Xenophon
Nick Xenophon
Nicholas "Nick" Xenophon is a South Australian barrister, anti-gambling campaigner and politician. He attended Prince Alfred College, and studied law at the University of Adelaide, attaining his Bachelor of Laws in 1981. Xenophon established and became principal of his own law firm, Xenophon & Co....
, re-elected in 2006 until 2014, was replaced by former No Pokies candidate John Darley
John Darley (Australian politician)
John Andrew Darley , a former valuer-general, was appointed to the South Australian Legislative Council by a joint sitting of the Parliament of South Australia on 21 November 2007 to replace outgoing No Pokies MP Nick Xenophon. Darley was the third of three candidates on the independent No Pokies...
after Xenophon's resignation to run for the Australian Senate
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...
at the 2007 federal election in which he was successful. Former Liberal MP Robert Brokenshire
Robert Brokenshire
Robert "Rob" Lawrence Brokenshire is a South Australian dairy farmer and Member of the 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd and current South Australian Parliament. Formerly a real estate broker, Brokenshire was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1993 and...
replaced Family First MP Andrew Evans as an MLC in 2008. The last remaining Democrats MP anywhere in Australia, Sandra Kanck
Sandra Kanck
Sandra Myrtho Kanck is a South Australian politician. She was an Australian Democrats member of the South Australian Legislative Council 1993-2009, and at the time of the announcement of her resignation in November 2008, her party's sole remaining member of any Australian parliament...
, chose to resign before the end of her term, which prompted a party membership ballot to choose a replacement in early 2009. David Winderlich
David Winderlich
David Winderlich , is an Australian teacher, public servant and politician who in 2009 was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the South Australian Legislative Council following the November 2008 resignation of Australian Democrats member Sandra Kanck...
was selected. He resigned from the party in late 2009 to sit in parliament as an independent.
See also
- Candidates of the South Australian state election, 2010Candidates of the South Australian state election, 2010-Liberal:*Graham Gunn, MHA in Stuart.*Liz Penfold, MHA in Flinders.*Robert Lawson, MLC.*Caroline Schaefer, MLC.-Labor:*Lea Stevens, MHA in Little Para.*Trish White, MHA in Taylor.-Other:*Rory McEwen, Independent MHA in Mount Gambier.-House of Assembly:...
- Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2010–2014Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2010–2014This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 2010 to 2014, as elected at the 2010 state election....
- Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2010–2014Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2010–2014This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council between 2010 and 2014, spanning the 51st and 52nd Parliament of South Australia...
- Full results of the South Australian state election, 2010Full results of the South Australian state election, 2010-Lower house:Independents: Bob Such, Geoff Brock, Don Pegler-Upper house:*Darley replaced Nick Xenophon in 2008....
- Previous election: South Australian state election, 2006
- Next election: South Australian state election, 2014South Australian state election, 2014The 2014 South Australian state election will elect members to the 53rd Parliament of South Australia on 15 March 2014. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2010 election, and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house, last...
External links
- 2010 South Australian election: Electoral Commission SA
- 2010 South Australian election: Antony Green - ABC
- 2010 South Australian election guide: The Poll Bludger
- 2010 South Australian election: Adelaide Now
- Liberals confident as South Australia heads to the polls, 7:30 Report, 16 March 2010, Transcript - Video
- The South Australian Election 2010: A Summary - by Dean JaenschDean JaenschDean Jaensch is an Australian political scientist and a retired Professor of Political and International Studies at The Flinders University of South Australia. Jaensch was awarded a Bachelor of Arts , a Master of Arts and PhD from the University of Adelaide...