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The 2026 South Australian state election will elect members to the 55th Parliament of South Australia on 21 March 2026. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2022 election, and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house, last filled at the 2018 election, will become vacant. The first term incumbent Australian Labor Party (SA) government, currently led by Premier Peter Malinauskas, will seek a second four-year term and will be challenged by the Liberal Party of Australia (SA) opposition, currently led by Opposition Leader David Speirs.
Like federal elections, South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting for single-member electorates in the lower house and optional preference single transferable voting in the proportionally represented upper house. The election will be conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Australia (ECSA), an independent body answerable to Parliament.
Background
In the House of Assembly at the 2022 election, the Labor opposition formed a four-seat majority government with 25 of 47 seats. The crossbench was represented by four independents: Troy Bell, Geoff Brock Dan Cregan and Fraser Ellis.
Pendulum
Date
The last state election was held on 19 March 2022 to elect members for the House of Assembly 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, 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.[1] This means that barring unforeseen events, the election will be held on 21 March 2026.
The Electoral (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 2013 introduced set dates for writs for general elections in South Australia. The writ sets the dates for the close of the electoral roll and the close of nominations for an election. The Electoral Act 1985 requires that, for a general election, the writ be issued 28 days before the date fixed for polling (S47(2a)) and the electoral roll be closed at 12 noon, 6 days after the issue of the writ (S48(3(a)(i). The close of nominations will be at 12 noon 3 days after the close of rolls (Electoral Act 1985 S48(4)(a) and S4(1)).
See also
- Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2022–2026
- Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2022–2026
- 2022 South Australian state election
References
- ^ "Australian elections timetable". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
Category:Future elections in Australia Category:2020s in South Australia Category:Elections in South Australia