Electoral results for the district of Mallee

This is a list of election results for the Electoral district of Mallee in South Australian elections.

Members for Mallee

Member		Party	Term
	Bill Nankivell	Liberal and Country	1970–1974
		Liberal	1974–1979
	Peter Lewis	Liberal	1979–1985

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

1982 South Australian state election: Mallee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter Lewis	8,374	57.5	+11.6
	National	Guy Wheal	3,260	22.4	−2.6
	Labor	Norman Napper	2,661	18.3	+0.4
	Democrats	Samuel Pope	256	1.8	+1.8
Total formal votes			14,551	96.9	−0.3
Informal votes			468	3.1	+0.3
Turnout			15,019	94.7	+1.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Peter Lewis	11,641	80.0	+2.6
	Labor	Norman Napper	2,910	20.0	−2.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.6

• The two candidate preferred vote was not counted between the Liberal and National candidates for Mallee.

Elections in the 1970s

1979 South Australian state election: Mallee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter Lewis	6,488	45.9	−14.6
	National	Guy Wheal	3,541	25.0	+8.8
	Labor	Dale Thiel	2,526	17.9	+1.7
	Independent	Ronald Hentschke	1,583	11.2	+11.2
Total formal votes			14,138	97.2	−0.9
Informal votes			414	2.8	+0.9
Turnout			14,552	93.6	−0.8
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal	Peter Lewis	8,134	57.3	−16.5
	National	Guy Wheal	6,004	42.7	+42.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

1977 South Australian state election: Mallee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bill Nankivell	8,684	60.5	+6.4
	Labor	Gerald Lea	3,353	23.3	+4.4
	National	Leslie Ficken	2,329	16.2	+2.4
Total formal votes			14,366	98.1
Informal votes			283	1.9
Turnout			14,649	94.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Bill Nankivell	10,611	73.8	−2.6
	Labor	Gerald Lea	3,755	26.2	+2.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.6

1975 South Australian state election: Mallee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bill Nankivell	5,040	50.2	−3.0
	National	John Petch	2,443	24.3	−22.5
	Labor	Ronald Maczkowiack	1,509	15.0	+15.0
	Liberal Movement	William McConnell	1,046	10.4	+10.4
Total formal votes			10,038	98.1	+3.5
Informal votes			193	1.9	−3.5
Turnout			10,231	95.0	−0.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Bill Nankivell	8,181	81.5	+28.3
	Labor	Ronald Maczkowiack	1,857	18.5	+18.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

• The two candidate preferred vote was not counted between the Liberal and Country candidates for Mallee.

1973 South Australian state election: Mallee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Bill Nankivell	4,901	53.2	−4.9
	Country	Joseph Philbey	4,318	46.8	+28.9
Total formal votes			9,219	94.6	−4.1
Informal votes			525	5.4	+4.1
Turnout			9,744	95.7	+1.9
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing	N/A

1970 South Australian state election: Mallee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal and Country	Bill Nankivell	5,382	58.1
	Labor	Roland Telfer	2,225	24.0
	National	John Petch	1,654	17.9
Total formal votes			9,261	98.7
Informal votes			123	1.3
Turnout			9,384	93.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal and Country	Bill Nankivell	6,871	74.2
	Labor	Roland Telfer	2,390	25.8
	Liberal and Country hold		Swing