1860 South Australian colonial election
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Colonial elections were held in South Australia from 9 March to 3 April 1860.[1] All 36 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election.
In the three years after the 1857 election, there were four different governments. Three came and went in the first year of responsible government. The Finniss government was replaced by John Baker (the first leader of a government from the Legislative Council), then by Robert Richard Torrens. Richard Hanson formed the fourth government in a period of only seven months. Hanson’s government took the Assembly into the 1860 election. There was also instability in the membership. There were 14 by-elections held during the life of the parliament.
Since the inaugural
Informal groupings began to form, and increasing government stability occurred from the
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Notes
- ^ "Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 to 2009" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2016.