2010 South Australia State Election

Election Day: Saturday 20th March 2010.

South Australia went to the Polls, with the ALP expecting a swing against them, but even with a smaller vote count than the Liberals, the ALP still won the election after winning 25 seats.

As at midnight on Election day, 72.9% of the vote had been counted, with ALP getting 37.9% and Liberals a higher figure of 41.4%, with 8.0% going to the Greens.

Number of votes so far allocated

  • 318,201 votes for Liberal
  • 291,338 votes for ALP (Labor)
  • 62,014 votes for Greens

The number of seats won so far is:

25 Labor with 37.8% of the vote and Winning the election
18 Liberal with 41.3% of the vote
3 Independent with 4.9% of the vote

2010 South Australia State Election Results


Agoda Hotel Bookings
Sponsor ai10
Votes Party % of Vote Seats % of Seats
291,338 Australian Labor Party 37.82% 25 53.2%
318,201 Liberal Party of Australia 41.30% 18 38.3%
62,014 SA Greens 8.05%
40,605 Family First Party 5.27%
2,899 Australian Democrats 0.38%
8,505 Nationals SA 1.10%
37,633 Independents 4.88% 3 6.4%
9,196 Other 1.19%

An unusual outcome this year:

Liberal get more votes than Labor, yet Labor have won.

Both Liberal and Greens have shown increases so far, compared to the 2006 results, with Liberals gaining a 7.3% swing and Greens a 1.6% swing, and a 7.4% swing against Labor. Family first and Nationals both having small swings against them, -0.6% and -1.0% respectively.

The 2006 South Australia State Election Results showed the following break up of votes

Votes Party % of Vote Seats % of Seats
424,715 Australian Labor Party 45.22% 28 59.6%
319,041 Liberal Party of Australia 33.97% 15 31.9%
60,949 SA Greens 6.49% 0
55,192 Family First Party 5.88% 0
27,179 Australian Democrats 2.89% 0
19,636 Nationals SA 2.09% 1 2.1%
25,884 Independents 2.76% 3 6.4%
6,565 Other 0.70% 0

Links:

0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest

0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x