South Australian state election, 2002
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State elections were held in Australia on February 9, 2002. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia led by Premier of South Australia Rob Kerin was defeated by the Australian Labor Party led by Mike Rann.
Party | Votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Liberal Party of Australia | 378,929 | 39.97 | -0.43 | 20 | -3 | |
Australian Labor Party | 344,559 | 36.34 | +1.18 | 23 | +2 | |
Australian Democrats | 71,026 | 7.49 | -8.95 | 0 | 0 | |
Family First Party | 25,025 | 2.64 | * | 0 | 0 | |
One Nation Party | 22,833 | 2.41 | * | 0 | 0 | |
SA Greens | 22,332 | 2.36 | * | 0 | 0 | |
Nationals SA | 13,748 | 1.45 | -0.29 | 1 | 0 | |
Independents | 40,288 | 4.25 | +1.12 | 3 | +2 | |
Other | 29,292 | 3.09 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 948,032 | 47 | ||||
Australian Labor Party | WIN | 49.10 | +0.60 | 24 | +3 | |
Liberal Party of Australia | 50.90 | -0.60 | 23 | -3 |
Independents: Rory McEwen, Bob Such, Peter Lewis
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This was the first election since Labor narrowly lost as opposition in the 1997 election, doing much better than most analysts predicted, after their comprehensive 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.
Labor won two seats from the Liberals, the districts of Adelaide (Jane Lomax-Smith) and Colton (Paul Caica). This gave Labor 23 seats, Liberals 20 seats, SA Nationals one seat, and three seats to Independents. 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.
On 13 February, independent Peter Lewis announced that he had signed an agreement to support a Labor Government in exchange for holding a constitutional convention, making him speaker of the House of Assembly, and concessions for his electorate including the phasing out of commercial fishing in the River Murray, prioritising the eradication of the branched broomrape weed, changing water rates for irrigation, fast-tracking a feasibility study for a weir and lock at Wellington, and improving rural roads. 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, with Rann becoming Premier on March 6.
[edit] Post-election Pendulum
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% |
Newland | Dorothy Kotz | LIB | 5.7% |
Fairly safe | |||
Unley | Mark Brindal | LIB | 9.0% |
Morphett | Duncan McFetridge | LIB | 10.0% |
Safe | |||
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 (STV GV) | |||
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
- Political Parties
- Australian Labor Party
- Liberal Party of Australia
- SA Greens
- Australian Democrats
- Family First Party
- The Nationals
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