Candidates of the 2026 South Australian state election

This is a list of candidates of the 2026 South Australian state election.

Retiring and vacating MPs

Labor

• Susan Close MP (Port Adelaide) – announced 18 September 2025 ^[1]
• Stephen Mullighan MP (Lee) – announced 18 September 2025 ^[1]
• Lee Odenwalder MP (Elizabeth) – announced 9 October 2025 ^[2]
• Dana Wortley MP (Torrens) – announced 9 October 2025 ^[2]
• Leon Bignell MP (Mawson) – announced 27 November 2025 ^[3]

Liberal

• John Gardner MP (Morialta) – announced 13 December 2024 ^[4]
• David Pisoni MP (Unley) – announced 8 October 2024 ^[5]
• Matt Cowdrey MP (Colton) – announced 27 June 2025 ^[6]
• Terry Stephens MLC – announced 25 November 2025

Independent

• Tammy Franks MLC – announced 30 September 2024 ^[7]
• Dan Cregan MP (Kavel) – announced 28 January 2025 ^[8]
• Troy Bell MP (Mount Gambier) – resigned 1 September 2025. Seat left vacant. ^[9]

House of Assembly

Sitting members of the South Australian House of Assembly are shown in bold text. ^[10]

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate [11]	Liberal candidate [12]	Greens candidate [13]	One Nation candidate [14]	Other candidates [ citation needed ]
Adelaide	Labor	Lucy Hood	Julian Amato	Bronte Colmer	Aoi Baxter	Keiran Snape (Ind)
Badcoe	Labor	Jayne Stinson	Amar Singh	Josh Andersen-Ward
Black	Labor*	Alex Dighton		Sarah Luscombe	Paula Wilson [15]
Bragg	Liberal	Rick Sarre	Jack Batty	Susan Ditter
Chaffey	Liberal		Tim Whetstone		Jenny Troeth [16]	Jeff Knipe (LC) [17]
Cheltenham	Labor	Joe Szakacs			Melissa Higgins [18]
Colton	Liberal	Aria Bolkus	Bec Sutton		Rocco DeAngelis [19]
Croydon	Labor	Peter Malinauskas				Ahmed Azhar (Ind) [20]
Davenport	Liberal	Erin Thompson	Trent Burnard	John Photakis
Dunstan	Labor*	Cressida O'Hanlon	Anna Finizio	Christel Mex		Chris McDermott (Fair Go) [21]
Elder	Labor	Nadia Clancy	Shawn van Groesen	Stef Rozitis	Matt Mangelsdorf [22]
Elizabeth	Labor	Ella Shaw		David Deex	Kym Hanton [23]
Enfield	Labor	Andrea Michaels
Finniss	Liberal		David Basham		Greg Powel [24]	Lou Nicholson (Ind)
Flinders	Liberal		Sam Telfer		Brenton Hincks [25]	Meghan Petherick (Ind) [26] Dylan Cowley (Nat) Thomas McNab (SAB)
Florey	Labor	Michael Brown		Alexandra McGee	Riley Size
Gibson	Labor	Sarah Andrews	Jane Fleming		Zoran Ananijev [27]
Giles	Labor	Eddie Hughes	Sunny Singh		Barry Drage [28]
Hammond	Liberal	Simone Bailey	Adrian Pederick		Robert Roylance [29]	Airlie Keen (Ind) [30] Lucas Hope (Ind) [31] Ruby Eckermann (AJP) [32]
Hartley	Liberal	Jenn Roberts	Vincent Tarzia	Melanie Searle
Heysen	Liberal	Marissa Bell	Josh Teague	Genevieve Dawson-Scott	Sarita Stratton	Gregory Davis (AJP) [32]
Hurtle Vale	Labor	Nat Cook			Katrina Emmerson [33]
Kaurna	Labor	Chris Picton		Sean Weatherly	Zoe Jones [34]
Kavel	Independent	David Leach	Bradley Orr		Christiaan Loch [35]	Matt Schultz (Ind) Padma Chaplin (AJP) [32]
King	Labor	Rhiannon Pearce	Amanda Hendry		David Kerrison [36]
Lee	Labor	David Wilkins			Fabio Sturm [37]
Light	Labor	James Agness			Alex Banks [38]
MacKillop	Independent	Mark Braes	Rebekah Rosser			Nick McBride * (Ind)
Mawson	Independent	Jenni Mitton	Michael Holden		Tyler Green [39]
Morialta	Liberal	Matthew Marozzi	Scott Kennedy	Jenn Tranter
Morphett	Liberal	Toby Priest	Stephen Patterson	Isabella Litt
Mount Gambier	Vacant	Matthew Key	Lamorna Alexander		Anne-Marie Loef [40]	Travis Fatchen (Ind) Cody Scholes (Ind) James Thomson (AJP) [32]
Narungga	Independent		Tania Stock		Chantelle Thomas [41]	Fraser Ellis * (Ind)
Newland	Labor	Olivia Savvas	Sarai Birch		Alison Dew-Fennell [42]
Ngadjuri	Liberal	Tony Piccolo	Penny Pratt		David Paton [43]	Cherie Steele (AJP) [32]
Playford	Labor	John Fulbrook			Nickolas Tsentidis
Port Adelaide	Labor	Cheyne Rich	Scott Anderson	Hayden Shaw	Joel Hendrie	Anne McMenamin (Ind) [44]
Ramsay	Labor	Zoe Bettison			Ralph Chambers
Reynell	Labor	Katrine Hildyard	Haseen Zaman
Schubert	Liberal	James Rothe	Ashton Hurn			Alice Shore (AJP) [32]
Stuart	Independent	David Ewings	Leon Stephens		Brandon Turton [45]	Geoff Brock * (Ind)
Taylor	Labor	Nick Champion			Peter Rentoulis [46]
Torrens	Labor	Meagan Spencer	Haritha Yara		David Medlock [47]
Unley	Liberal	Alice Rolls	Rosalie Rotolo	Dylan Kiernan	Jason Wilkinson	Ryan Harrison (For Unley) [48]
Waite	Labor	Catherine Hutchesson	Frank Pangallo	Declan Brumfield
West Torrens	Labor	Tom Koutsantonis		Samuel Bannon
Wright	Labor	Blair Boyer			Sean Porter [49]

Legislative Council

Sitting members of the South Australian Legislative Council are shown in bold text. Eleven of twenty-two seats are up for election. ^[50]

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	Greens candidates	One Nation candidates	Nationals candidates
Emily Bourke Mira El Dannawi Justin Hanson Hilton Gumbys Clare Scriven	Ben Hood Heidi Girolamo Rowan Mumford Thea Hennessey KD Singh Belinda Crawford-Marshall	Melanie Selwood Katie McCusker	Carlos Quaremba [51] Rebecca Hewett [52] Nathan Skrlj [53]
SA-BEST candidates	Family First candidates	Fair Go candidates	Animal Justice candidates	Libertarian candidates
Connie Bonaros	Deepa Matthew	Jake Hall-Evans Angela Rojas	Lionel Pengilley [32] Geoff Russell [32]
Better Community candidates	Real Change candidates	Legalise Cannabis candidates	Australian Family candidates
Jing Lee	Stephen Pallaras	Jessica Nies [54]	Bob Day

See also

• Candidates of the 2022 South Australian state election
• Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2022–2026
• Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 2022–2026

References

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41. "Chantelle Thomas - Candidate for Narungga".
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