Labor leader Peter Malinauskas won a landslide victory in the South Australian elections, pledging to use the profits to deliver a “fairer, better, society”.
After gaining more than a 7% primary vote across the state, Labor was on track to win 26 seats and form a majority government, ending Steven Marshall’s Liberal government after just one term.
This would be the worst result for the Liberal Party since Mike Rann’s 2006 “Rannslide” victory.
The Prime Minister, Peter Malinauskas, declared defeat at around 9pm on Saturday night.
Premier-elected Malinauskas began his victory speech with an acknowledgment to land, committing a state-based treaty and vote for the Aboriginal people of SA progress.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank the people of South Australia – it is not lost on me the importance of the privilege and the magnitude of the responsibility you have invested in me and my team,” he said.
Malinauskas said that during election nights it was often about raising the victory for Labor, “real satisfaction comes to us to realize our ambition, to deliver our ideal, a fairer, better society and more opportunities for those in it. most need. “
“I believe we have the policy and the plan to realize this ambition, but more than that I know I will lead the team to deliver it,” he said.
Malinauskas also thanked the Liberal Party, saying “they may be our enemies, but they are not our enemies,” and acknowledged Liberal MPs who had lost their seats in Marshall’s service for the past four years.
Marshall said he had called on Malinauskas to admit it and congratulate him on becoming the 47th Prime Minister of the state.
“The people of SA have spoken, they have elected a new government,” Marshall told supporters at the Robin Hood Hotel on Saturday.
“But it does not take away from the work we have done in South Australia over the last four years,” he said, pointing to the state’s employment rate, lower costs and the management of the pandemic.
He said it would have been an “honor and privilege” to serve as Prime Minister.
ABC election analyst Antony Green said there was “no doubt” that Labor would form a government with fluctuations toward Labor across the state.
The possible loss to the Liberal Party after just one term makes it the first incumbent government to lose an election since the start of the Covid pandemic.
Prime Minister Steven Marshall’s own seat in Dunstan – held at a margin of 7.4% – was also at risk of falling to the Labor Party, where there was a 6.2% swing against him in the early vote.
Deputy Prime Minister Dan Van Holst Pelekaan was also likely to lose his secure regional seat to Stuart following a redistribution that former Labor-led independent Geoff Brock hometown of Port Pirie put in the electorate.
Labor has won the marginal seat of Elder, Newland and Adelaide, and is also likely to win the seat of Davenport.
It was also in front of the other key marginal seat of the king.
Labor holds 19 seats in the 47-seat House of Assembly while the Liberal Party holds 22. Labor needs four seats to win majority government form.
Since 6 a.m. on Sunday, figures from the SA Electoral Commission showed that the Labor Party received 40.5% of the votes of the first preference, the Liberals 34.6% and the Greens 9.6%.
Labor is leading in 26 seats, while the Liberal Party is on 15. Also, six independents were on track to win their seats, most of which were contested against the Liberal Party.
Family First – now led by former Labor ministers Tom Kenyon and Jack Snelling – registered 3.8% of the primary vote.
The Minister for Social Services, Anne Ruston, said there were some “home lessons” from the outcome in South Australia, and said it was clear the government had not been rewarded for its handling of the pandemic.
She also compared Marshall to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, saying that the SA Prime Minister was a “nice guy”.
“There are clearly some home runs for us to go to the polls in the next few months, but Steven Marshall is a really nice guy and maybe it’s a case of nice guys not winning tonight,” she told Sky News .
“Scott Morrison is a tough guy. Steven Marshall is a nice guy, there’s absolutely no doubt about it. You used the word ‘Mengrel’ – Steven Marshall did not have that bad streak.
“Scott Morrison does not let anyone run over the top of him and be as bad as Malinauskas was.”
Ruston also admitted that Labor leader Peter Malinauskas had “charisma”, saying that Albanians lack the same quality.
Labor MP Tom Koutsantonis said there had been a “dramatic” swing towards Labor and criticized the Liberal campaign for not addressing health priorities.
The Liberal Party also fought in the key seats, which fought against conservative independence that had been aborted by the Liberal Party during the last reign, with independents advancing to the seats of Kavel, Narungga and Mount Gambier.
Labor has led its campaign on the issue of health and ambulance ramping, while the Liberal Party has put the economy at risk of posing a change of government as the state emerges from the Covid pandemic.
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