1973 South Australian state election
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All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly 24 seats were needed for a majority 10 (of the 20) seats of the South Australian Legislative Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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State elections were held in
Background
Parliamentary elections for both houses of the
It was only the second time that a Labor government in South Australia had been re-elected for a second term, the first being the early Thomas Price Labor government. It would be the first five-year-incumbent Labor government however.
Moderate
The Country Party also won a seat for the first time in Flinders, and finished second after preferences with no Labor candidate in five LCL seats − Rocky River, Mallee, Alexandra, Goyder and Victoria.
A 1973 Semaphore by-election and a 1974 Goyder by-election were triggered. Labor and the Liberal Movement easily retained their respective seats.
The Democratic Labor Party, which won 0.71% of the vote and no seats in 1970, chose not to contest the election.[1]
Key dates
- Issue of writ: 20 February 1973
- Close of nominations: 27 February 1973
- Polling day: 10 March 1973
- Return of writ: On or before 10 April 1973
Results
House of Assembly
South Australian state election, 10 March 1973[2] | ||||||
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Enrolled voters | 696,290 | |||||
Votes cast | 655,937 | Turnout | 94.20% | -0.83% | ||
Informal votes | 26,794 | Informal | 4.08% | +2.02% | ||
Summary of votes by party | ||||||
Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
Labor | 324,135 | 51.52% | –0.12% | 26 | - 1 | |
Liberal and Country
|
250,312 | 39.79% | –3.97% | 20 | ± 0 | |
Country | 24,810 | 3.94% | +2.05% | 1 | + 1 | |
Independent | 27,178 | 4.32% | +2.86% | 0 | ± 0 | |
Other | 2,708 | 0.43% | * | 0 | ± 0 | |
Total | 629,143 | 47 | ||||
Two-party-preferred | ||||||
Labor | 54.50% | +1.20% | ||||
Liberal and Country
|
45.50% | –1.20% |
Legislative Council
South Australian state election, 10 March, 1973[3] | ||||||
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Enrolled voters | 383,758 | |||||
Votes cast | 357,971 | Turnout | 93.3 | –1.9 | ||
Informal votes | 27,140 | Informal | 7.6 | +1.7 | ||
Summary of votes by party | ||||||
Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats won |
Seats held | |
Labor | 174,082 | 52.6 | –5.3 | 4 | 6 | |
Liberal and Country
|
152,921 | 46.2 | +4.2 | 6 | 14 | |
Australia | 2,618 | 0.8 | +0.8 | 0 | 0 | |
Independent | 1,210 | 0.4 | +0.4 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 330,831 | 10 | 20 |
Post-election pendulum
Labor seats (26) | |||
Marginal | |||
Gilles | Jack Slater | ALP | 5.8% |
Fairly safe | |||
Millicent | Des Corcoran | ALP | 6.5% |
Coles | Len King | ALP | 9.2% |
Peake | Don Simmons | ALP | 9.6% |
Norwood | Don Dunstan | ALP | 9.6% |
Safe | |||
Henley Beach | Glen Broomhill | ALP | 10.2% |
Mitchell | Ron Payne | ALP | 11.0% |
Unley | Gil Langley | ALP | 11.6% |
Brighton | Hugh Hudson | ALP | 12.0% |
Mount Gambier | Allan Burdon | ALP | 14.0% |
Mawson | Don Hopgood | ALP | 14.1% |
Tea Tree Gully | Molly Byrne | ALP | 14.1% |
Ascot Park | Geoff Virgo | ALP | 14.7% |
Playford | Terry McRae | ALP | 14.8% |
Adelaide | Jack Wright | ALP | 16.7% |
Elizabeth | Peter Duncan | ALP | 19.6% |
Florey | Charles Wells | ALP | 20.4% |
Albert Park | Charles Harrison | ALP | 21.7% |
Price | John Ryan | ALP | 22.5% |
Pirie | Dave McKee | ALP | 23.9% v IND |
Whyalla | Max Brown | ALP | 24.7% |
Semaphore | Reg Hurst | ALP | 26.0% |
Ross Smith | Jack Jennings | ALP | 30.3% v IND |
Stuart | Gavin Keneally | ALP | 31.2% v IND |
Spence | Ernie Crimes | ALP | 31.9% v IND |
Salisbury | Reg Groth | ALP | 34.0% v IND |
LCL seats (20) | |||
Marginal | |||
Rocky River | Howard Venning | LCL | 0.2% v NAT |
Hanson | Heini Becker | LCL | 2.4% |
Glenelg | John Mathwin | LCL | 2.7% |
Mallee | Bill Nankivell | LCL | 3.2% v NAT |
Chaffey | Peter Arnold | LCL | 3.5% |
Torrens | John Coumbe | LCL | 5.2% |
Fairly safe | |||
Murray | Ivon Wardle | LCL | 7.3% |
Alexandra | Ted Chapman | LCL | 8.2% v NAT |
Fisher | Stan Evans | LCL | 9.4% |
Safe | |||
Goyder | David Boundy | LCL | 10.3% v NAT |
Frome | Ernest Allen | LCL | 10.9% |
Light | Bruce Eastick | LCL | 13.6% |
Gouger | Keith Russack | LCL | 13.6% |
Victoria | Allan Rodda | LCL | 14.1% v NAT |
Mitcham | Robin Millhouse | LCL | 15.7% |
Bragg | David Tonkin | LCL | 16.4% |
Davenport | Dean Brown | LCL | 18.2% |
Kavel | Roger Goldsworthy | LCL | 20.0% |
Eyre | Graham Gunn | LCL | 22.6% |
Heysen | William McAnaney | LCL | 23.0% |
Crossbench seats (1) | |||
Flinders | Peter Blacker | CP | 4.9% v LCL |
See also
- Results of the South Australian state election, 1973 (House of Assembly)
- Results of the 1973 South Australian state election (Legislative Council)
- Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1973–1975
- Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1973–1975
References
- History of South Australian elections 1857–2006, volume 1: House of Assembly, by Dean Jaensch, published by History Trust of SA and State Electoral Office of SA.
- History of South Australian elections 1857–2006, volume 2: Legislative Council Archived 22 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine, by Dean Jaensch, published by History Trust of SA and State Electoral Office of SA.
- Historical lower house results, ABC
- Historical upper house results, ABC
- State and federal election results Archived 18 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine in Australia since 1890, University of WA
- Specific
- ^ "DLP not to contest SA election". The Canberra Times.
- ^ "Details of SA 1973 Election". Australian Politics and Elections Database.
- ^ "History of South Australian elections 1857–2006, volume 2 Legislative Council". ECSA. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2016.