This is a list of results for the
Legislative Council at the
2018 South Australian state election
The 2018 South Australian state election to elect members to the 54th Parliament of South Australia was held on 17 March 2018. All 47 seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose members were elected at the 2014 election, and 11 of 22 se ...
.
The 11 of 22 seats up for election were 4
Liberal
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Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
, 4
Labor
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
, 1
Green
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, 1
Conservative
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and 1
Dignity
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. The final outcome was 4 Liberal, 4 Labor, 2
SA Best and 1 Green.
[Final Results of the 2018 South Australian Election: Antony Green 4 April 2018]
/ref>[Third time lucky: The Poll Bludger 18 March 2018]
/ref> Carrying over from the 2014 election were 4 Liberal, 4 Labor, 1 Green, 1 Advance SA, and 1 Conservative; although the Conservative, Dennis Hood
Dennis Garry Edward Hood (born 12 January 1970) is an Australian politician who began his political career as a member of the South Australian Legislative Council in 2006 on the Family First Party's ticket. In 2017, Family First merged into the ...
, defected to the Liberals nine days after the 2018 state election.
So from 2018 to 2020, the 22 seat upper house composition was 9 Liberal on the government benches, 8 Labor on the opposition benches, and 5 to minor parties on the crossbench
A crossbencher is an independent or minor party member of some legislatures, such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia. They take their name from the crossbenches, between and perpendicular to the government and oppositi ...
, consisting of 2 SA Best, 2 Greens, and 1 Advance SA.[ The government therefore required at least three additional non-government members to form a majority and carry votes on the floor.
In 2020, ]John Dawkins
John Sydney "Joe" Dawkins, AO (born 2 March 1947) is an Australian former politician who was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993. He is notable for his reforms of tertiary education as Minister for E ...
was expelled from the Liberal Party for breaking party rules by nominating himself for President of the Legislative Council.
Election results
See also
* Candidates of the 2018 South Australian state election
* Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2018–2022
Notes
References
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2018 elections in Australia
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