South Australian legislative election, 2002
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2002 South Australian state election major party leaders | |||
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Labor | Liberal | ||
Mike Rann Opposition Leader |
Rob Kerin Premier of South Australia |
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Parliament | 16 years | Parliament | 8 years |
Leader since | 1994 | Leader since | 2001 |
District | Ramsay | District | Frome |
Legislative elections for Parliament of South Australia were held in South Australia on 9 February 2002. The Australian Labor Party led by Mike Rann defeated the incumbent Liberal Party led by Rob Kerin by just one seat, despite Labor receiving only 49.1% of the two party preferred vote, to win government for the first time since 1989.
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[edit] Background
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For previous results, see South Australian legislative elections.
This was the first election since Labor narrowly lost as opposition in the 1997 election, doing much better than most analysts predicted, after their comphrehensive loss in the 1993 election where the ALP were reduced to just 10 seats. Coming into the 2002 election, the Liberal Government had faced a number of scandals including the Motorola affair, over which Premier John Olsen was forced to resign. However, the new Liberal Premier Rob Kerin was successful in communicating a more positive message to voters and presented a more down to earth image than either his predecessor or Australian Labor Party leader Mike Rann.
[edit] Election Procedure
Under its state constitution, South Australia holds legislative elections approximately every four years. The Electoral Act stipulates that the election campaign must run for a minimum of 25 days and a maximum of 55 days.
In accordance with electoral regulations, the Electoral Commissioner then advertised key dates for this election of all 47 members of the House of Assembly and eleven members of the Legislative Council:
- Close of rolls
- Nominations
- Polling Day
- Return of Writs
[edit] House of Assembly Results
2002 State Election | |||
First preference | |||
Party | Seats | ||
Liberal Party of Australia | 40.0% | 20 | |
Australian Labor Party | 36.3% | 23 | |
Australian Democrats | 7.5% | ||
Independents | 5.5% | 2 | |
Family First Party | 2.6% | ||
One Nation Party | 2.4% | ||
SA Greens | 2.4% | ||
SA First | 1.8% | ||
Nationals SA | 1.5% | 1 | |
CLIC | 0.8% | 1 | |
Two Party Preferred | |||
Australian Labor Party | 49.1% | 24 | |
Liberal Party of Australia | 50.9% | 23 |
At the election, Labor won two seats from the Liberals, the districts of Adelaide (Jane Lomax-Smith) and Colton (Paul Caica). This gave Labor 23 seats, the Liberals 20 seats with one National (Karlene Maywald) and three conservative independents (Peter Lewis, Bob Such and Rory McEwen). In order to form majority government, a party needed 24 seats out of 47.
Most analysts expected Rob Kerin to form a minority government with the support of all the independents. However, on 13 February, independent Peter Lewis announced that he had signed an agreement to support a Labor Government with a number of conditions including support for parliamentary reform and concessions for his electorate. Following parliamentary precedent established by Don Dunstan following the 1968 election, the Kerin Government refused to resign until after Rann and Labor demonstrated that they had majority support on the floor of the House of Assembly. The Liberal Government was defeated on the floor of the House of Assembly on March 5, 2002 and Labor took office promptly after.
[edit] Post-election Pendulum
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For previous pendulums and maps, see South Australian legislative elections.
LABOR SEATS (24) | |||
Marginal | |||
Norwood | Vini Ciccarello | ALP | 0.5% |
Adelaide | Jane Lomax-Smith | ALP | 1.0% |
Hammond | Peter Lewis | CLIC | 2.1% v LIB |
Wright | Jennifer Rankine | ALP | 3.2% |
Ashford | Stephanie Key | ALP | 3.7% |
Florey | Frances Bedford | ALP | 3.7% |
Elder | Pat Conlon | ALP | 3.7% |
Colton | Paul Caica | ALP | 4.6% |
Mitchell | Kris Hanna | ALP | 4.7% |
Fairly safe | |||
Reynell | Gay Thompson | ALP | 6.6% |
Lee | Michael Wright | ALP | 7.0% |
Elizabeth | Lea Stevens | ALP | 7.2% |
Torrens | Robyn Geraghty | ALP | 7.2% |
West Torrens | Tom Koutsantonis | ALP | 8.6% |
Giles | Lyn Breuer | ALP | 9.7% |
Safe | |||
Kaurna | John Hill | ALP | 11.0% |
Playford | Jack Snelling | ALP | 13.1% |
Napier | Michael O'Brien | ALP | 14.3% |
Enfield | John Rau | ALP | 15.9% |
Cheltenham | Jay Weatherill | ALP | 16.7% |
Taylor | Trish White | ALP | 17.7% |
Croydon | Michael Atkinson | ALP | 19.1% |
Very safe | |||
Ramsay | Mike Rann | ALP | 20.2% |
Port Adelaide | Kevin Foley | ALP | 21.7% |
LIBERAL SEATS (23) | |||
Marginal | |||
Hartley | Joe Scalzi | LIB | 1.3% |
Stuart | Graham Gunn | LIB | 1.3% |
Light | Malcolm Buckby | LIB | 2.8% |
Kavel | Mark Goldsworthy | LIB | 2.9% v IND |
Mawson | Robert Brokenshire | LIB | 3.5% |
Heysen | Isobel Redmond | LIB | 4.0% v AD |
Morialta | Joan Hall | LIB | 4.1% |
Bright | Wayne Matthew | LIB | 5.0% |
Fairly safe | |||
Newland | Dorothy Kotz | LIB | 5.7% |
Unley | Mark Brindal | LIB | 9.0% |
Safe | |||
Morphett | Duncan McFetridge | LIB | 10.0% |
MacKillop | Mitch Williams | LIB | 11.4% v IND |
Davenport | Iain Evans | LIB | 11.5% |
Frome | Rob Kerin | LIB | 11.5% |
Waite | Martin Hamilton-Smith | LIB | 12.0% |
Fisher | Bob Such | IND | 12.1% v LIB |
Schubert | Ivan Venning | LIB | 13.1% |
Chaffey | Karlene Maywald | NAT | 14.0% v LIB |
Finniss | Dean Brown | LIB | 15.6% |
Goyder | John Meier | LIB | 16.2% |
Bragg | Vickie Chapman | LIB | 19.6% |
Very safe | |||
Mt Gambier | Rory McEwen | IND | 26.6% v LIB |
Flinders | Liz Penfold | LIB | 28.4% |
[edit] Legislative Council Results
2002 Legislative Council Result | |||
Party | Seats | ||
Liberal Party of Australia | 40.1% | 5 | |
Australian Labor Party | 32.9% | 4 | |
Australian Democrats | 7.3% | 1 | |
Family First Party | 4.0% | 1 | |
SA Greens | 2.8% | ||
One Nation Party | 1.8% | ||
No Pokies | 1.3% | ||
Independent for Voluntary euthanasia | 1.2% | ||
SA First | 1.0% | ||
Nationals SA | 0.5% | ||
2002-2006 Legislative Council | |||
Party | Seats | ||
Liberal Party of Australia | 9 | ||
Australian Labor Party | 7 | ||
Australian Democrats | 3 | ||
Family First Party | 1 | ||
No Pokies | 1 | ||
Terry Cameron | 1 |
In the Legislative Council, Liberal won 5 seats (Robert Lawson, Caroline Schaefer, Angus Redford, David Ridgway, Terry Stephens), Labor won 4 seats (Gail Gago, Paul Holloway, Terry Roberts, John Gazzola), Australian Democrats won 1 seat (Sandra Kanck), and the recently formed Family First party won their first ever seat in an Australian parliament (Andrew Evans). [1]
This left the overall numbers in the Legislative Council at: Labor 7, Liberal 9, Democrats 3, Family First 1, and 2 independents (Terry Cameron and Nick Xenophon).
[edit] See also
- South Australian legislative elections
- South Australian Legislative Council
- South Australian House of Assembly
[edit] References
- State Electoral Office - 2002 results
- Background leading up to the election/Liberals in power. Crikey. Archived from the original on 2005-12-13.
- SA Election - The last domino. Crikey. Archived from the original on 2005-12-13.
- Labor still a chance to take the final state. Crikey. Archived from the original on 2005-12-13.
[edit] External links
- General information
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