South Australian state election, 1993
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State elections were held in Australia on 11 December 1993. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia Lynn Arnold was defeated by the Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the Opposition Dean Brown.
[edit] Background
The campaign was dominated by the issue of the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia in 1992. The State Bank's deposits were legally underwritten by the Government of South Australia, putting South Australia into billions of dollars of debt. Labor premier John Bannon had resigned over the issue, being replaced by Lynn Arnold just over a year before the election. Following the leadership change and by early 1993, Newspoll had recorded a total rise of 13 percent in the Labor primary vote, but gains were not permanent, with a landslide win to the Liberal opposition led by Dean Brown.[1]
[edit] Post-election pendulum
A 1994 by-election saw Labor take the seat of Torrens from the Liberals.
Metro SA: ALP in red, Liberal in blue. Please note that these boundaries are based on the latest electoral redistribution. Click
here for boundary lines as of 1997.
Rural SA: ALP in red, Liberal in blue. Please note that these boundaries are based on the latest electoral redistribution. Click
here for boundary lines as of 1997.
In the Legislative Council, Liberal won 6 seats, Labor 4, and the Australian Democrats 1. This left the total upper house numbers at Liberals 11, Labor 9, Democrats 2.
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- Political Parties
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