John Andrew Darley (born 15 May 1937) is a former member of the

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and a former valuer-general.

Political career (2007–present)

Darley was appointed to the

by a

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of the

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on 21 November 2007 to replace outgoing

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No Pokies MLC Nick Xenophon who resigned to contest the

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at the

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. Darley was the third of three candidates on the

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No Pokies upper house ticket at the 2006 state election. Darley was re-elected at the 2014 state election as the first candidate on the independent Nick Xenophon ticket. In 2015, Nick Xenophon Group (NXG) changed its name to

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(NXT).

2018 South Australian election

Darley left the

and became an

on 17 August 2017 ahead of the 2018 state election.MLC John Darley quits Nick Xenophon Team in South Australia: ABC 17 August 2017
/ref> He said: "There are many things I could say as to why I have resigned. However, it is not my place to speak publicly about internal party matters". Though it was stated that there had been months of conflict between Darley and the party, it came to a head a week prior when Darley voted with the Labor government to back Legislative Council voting reforms. Xenophon indicated the resignation had averted Darley's imminent expulsion from the party due to "breaches to party rules".

Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST SA-Best (stylised SA-BEST), formerly known as Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST, is a political party in South Australia. It was founded in 2017 by Nick Xenophon as a state-based partner to his Nick Xenophon Team party (renamed to Centre Alliance in early ...

therefore contested the 2018 election without state parliamentary representation. On 15 September 2017, Darley announced that he would team up with another former Xenophon affiliate, retired lawyer Peter Humphries, to form another new party called

Advance SA Advance SA is a political party in South Australia. It was founded in 2017 by John Darley. Darley had been elected to the Legislative Council of South Australia as a member of the Nick Xenophon Group, named as Nick Xenophon Team from 2015. Dar ...

. Darley's term in the Legislative Council does not expire until 2022, and Humphries was the party's lead candidate for the 2018 election. Darley announced that Advance SA would not run candidates for the lower house, and would not direct preferences to SA-BEST or any other party. Advance SA received 0.4% of the vote, and did not get any candidates elected at the 2018 election. Darley was not up for re-election. Darley's term continued until

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, when he was defeated.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Darley, John 1937 births Living people Independent members of the Parliament of South Australia Members of the South Australian Legislative Council Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Place of birth missing (living people) Nick Xenophon Team politicians Public servants of South Australia Valuation professionals 21st-century Australian politicians