A by-election was held for the
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
The House of Assembly was creat ...
seat of
Elizabeth on 9 April 1994. This was triggered by the resignation of former state
Labor MHA
Martyn Evans
Martyn John Evans (born 27 November 1953 in Birmingham, England), is a former South Australian Australian independent and Australian Labor Party state and federal politician.
Evans was educated at The University of Adelaide, and was a State ...
, who moved to the federal seat of
Bonython at the
1994 by-election
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...
. The seat, created at the 1969 redistribution and first contested at the
1970 state election, was held by
Labor from 1970 until 1984, when Evans won it as an independent Labor candidate. In 1993, he rejoined the Labor Party.
Timeline
Results
The Labor opposition retained the seat despite a small
two-party preferred
In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote (TPP or 2PP) is the result of an election or opinion poll after preferences have been distributed to the highest two candidates, who in some cases can be independents. For the purposes of TPP, ...
swing.
Cotton ran under the banner "Independent - Parent Democracy in State Schools".
See also
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List of South Australian state by-elections
References
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South Australian state by-elections
Elizabeth state by-election
1990s in South Australia
Elizabeth state by-election