Jay Wilson Weatherill is a former Australian politician who was the 45th premier of South Australia,serving from 21 October 2011 until 19 March 2018. Weatherill represented the House of Assembly seat of Cheltenham as a member of the South Australian Labor Party from the 2002 election to 17 December 2018,when he retired.
Frome is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after Edward Charles Frome,the third surveyor-general of South Australia. The electorate stretches north-eastwards from the Gawler River and Gulf St Vincent in the south,and includes many of the agricultural areas of the Clare and Gilbert Valleys. It covers a total of 12,921 km2 (4,989 sq mi) and takes in the towns of Auburn,Clare,Mintaro,Port Broughton,Saddleworth,Snowtown and Riverton. Prior to the 2020 redistribution,its main population centre was Port Pirie,since transferred to Stuart.
The term swing refers to the extent of change in voter support,typically from one election or opinion poll to another,expressed as a positive or negative percentage point. For the Australian House of Representatives and the lower or unicameral houses of the parliaments of all the states and territories except Tasmania and the ACT,as well as Tasmania's upper house,Australia employs preferential voting in single-member constituencies. Under the full-preference instant-runoff voting system,in each seat the candidate with the lowest vote is eliminated and their preferences are distributed,which is repeated until only two candidates remain. While every seat has a two-candidate preferred (TCP) result,seats where the major parties have come first and second are commonly referred to as having a two-party-preferred (TPP) result. The concept of "swing" in Australian elections is not simply a function of the difference between the votes of the two leading candidates,as it is in Britain. To know the majority of any seat,and therefore the swing necessary for it to change hands,it is necessary to know the preferences of all the voters,regardless of their first preference votes. It is not uncommon in Australia for candidates who have comfortable leads on the first count to fail to win the seat,because "preference flows" go against them.
Stuart is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. At 323,131 km²,it is a vast country district extending from the Spencer Gulf as far as the Northern Territory border in the north and the Queensland and New South Wales borders in the east. The district includes pastoral lease and unincorporated Crown Lands,Lake Eyre and part of the Simpson Desert in the far north. Its main population centres since the 2020 boundaries redistribution are the industrial towns of Port Pirie and Port Augusta.
Robert Bruce Such was a South Australian politician. He was the member for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1989 until his death in 2014. He defeated Labor MP Philip Tyler at the 1989 election and was a member of the Liberals until 2000 when he became an independent. Such was Minister for Employment,Training and Further Education,and Minister for Youth Affairs,in the Brown Liberal government from 1993 to 1996. He served as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly for the Rann Labor government from 2005 to 2006. Such was joint Father of the House with Michael Atkinson from 2012.
Leon William Kennedy Bignell,is an independent politician and former journalist representing the Electoral district of Mawson since the 2006 election.
Martin Leslie James Hamilton-Smith is a former Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Waite from the 1997 election until his retirement in 2018. First elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party,Hamilton-Smith was the state parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party and the Leader of the Opposition in South Australia from 2007 to 2009,and a Minister in the Kerin Liberal government from 2001 to 2002.
In Australian politics,the two-party-preferred vote is the result of an election or opinion poll after preferences have been distributed to the highest two candidates,who in some cases can be independents. For the purposes of TPP,the Liberal/National Coalition is usually considered a single party,with Labor being the other major party. Typically the TPP is expressed as the percentages of votes attracted by each of the two major parties,e.g. "Coalition 50%,Labor 50%",where the values include both primary votes and preferences. The TPP is an indicator of how much swing has been attained/is required to change the result,taking into consideration preferences,which may have a significant effect on the result.
Nicholas David Champion is an Australian politician. He is a member of the South Australian Labor Party and has served in the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2022 South Australian state election,representing the seat of Taylor. He has served as the Minister for Trade and Investment,Minister for Housing and Urban Development and Minister for Planning in the Malinauskas ministry since March 2022.
The 2010 South Australian state election elected members to the 52nd Parliament of South Australia on 20 March 2010. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house,whose current members were elected at the 2006 election,and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house,last filled at the 2002 election,became vacant.
A by-election was held for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Frome on 17 January 2009. This was triggered by the resignation of former Premier and state Liberal MHA Rob Kerin. The seat had been retained by the Liberals at the 2006 state election on a 3.4 per cent margin,and at the 2002 state election on an 11.5 per cent margin.
The 2014 South Australian state election elected members to the 53rd Parliament of South Australia on 15 March 2014,to fill all 47 seats in the House of Assembly and 11 of 22 seats in the Legislative Council. The 12-year-incumbent Australian Labor Party (SA) government,led by Premier Jay Weatherill,won its fourth consecutive four-year term in government,a record 16 years of Labor government,defeating the opposition Liberal Party of Australia (SA),led by Opposition Leader Steven Marshall.
Steven Spence Marshall is a former Australian politician who served as the 46th premier of South Australia between 2018 and 2022. He was a member of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the South Australian House of Assembly from 2010 until 2024,representing the electorate of Dunstan.
Kyam Joseph Maher is an Australian politician and lawyer who has been Attorney-General of South Australia and the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council since March 2022. He was appointed to a casual vacancy in the South Australian Legislative Council for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party on 17 October 2012. He previously served in the Cabinet of South Australia between 2015 and 2018 and was the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council between 2016 and 2018.
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 seats in the Legislative Council or upper house,last filled at the 2010 election,were contested. The record-16-year-incumbent Australian Labor Party (SA) government led by Premier Jay Weatherill was seeking a fifth four-year term,but was defeated by the opposition Liberal Party of Australia (SA),led by Opposition Leader Steven Marshall. Nick Xenophon's new SA Best party unsuccessfully sought to obtain the balance of power.
A by-election for the seat of Fisher in the South Australian House of Assembly was held on 6 December 2014. The by-election was triggered by the death of independent MP Bob Such on 11 October 2014. Originally elected to Fisher for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 1989 election,defeating the one-term Australian Labor Party MP Philip Tyler,Such left the party in 2000.
Natalie Fleur Cook is an Australian politician and anti-violence campaigner. She became an anti-violence campaigner after the death of her son in a one-punch attack in 2008.
The Weatherill ministry was the 72nd ministry of the Government of South Australia,led by Jay Weatherill of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. It commenced on 21 October 2011,when Weatherill succeeded Mike Rann as Premier and Labor leader.
Emily Sarah Bourke is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2018 state election.
The 2022 South Australian state election was held on 19 March 2022 to elect members to the 55th Parliament of South Australia. All 47 seats in the House of Assembly,and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for re-election.
