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The Parliament of South Australia is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia. It consists of the 47-seat House of Assembly ( lower house ) and the 22-seat Legislative Council ( upper house ). [ 2 ]
South Australia was the second place in the world to do so after New Zealand in 1893, and the first to allow women to stand for election. [1] (The first woman candidates for the South Australia Assembly ran in 1918 general election, in Adelaide and Sturt. [2]) A painting of the House of Assembly meeting in Old Parliament House in 1867
This is a list of members of the South Australian House of Assembly from 2018 to 2022, as elected at the 2018 state election and subsequent by-elections. [ 1 ] Name
When the Province of South Australia received its original constitution in 1857, it was the most democratic in the British Empire, combining a universal-suffrage lower house (the House of Assembly), with a restricted-suffrage upper house (the Legislative Council). The purpose of the Legislative Council was, as with the 19th century House of ...
The other presiding officer is the President of the South Australian Legislative Council. As of the passage of the Constitution (Independent Speaker) Amendment Act 2021 , the Speaker is constitutionally banned from being a member of a registered political party outside of a "relevant election period".
While South Australia's total population exceeds 1.8 million, Adelaide's population exceeds 1.4 million (as at 30 June 2023) [2] − uniquely highly centralised, over 78% of the state's population resides in the Greater Adelaide metropolitan area and has 72% of seats (34 of 47) alongside a lack of comparatively sized rural population centres, therefore the metropolitan area is crucial in ...
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The 2026 South Australian state election will be held on 21 March 2026 to elect members to the 56th Parliament of South Australia.All 47 seats in the House of Assembly (the lower house, whose members were elected at the 2022 election), and half the seats in the Legislative Council (the upper house, last filled at the 2018 election) are up for re-election.