2026 South Australian state election

The 2026 South Australian state election will elect members to the 56th Parliament of South Australia on 21 March 2026. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2022 election, and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house, last filled at the 2018 election, will become vacant.

2026 South Australian state election
21 March 2026
All seats in the South Australian House of Assembly
 
Leader Peter Malinauskas David Speirs
Party Labor Liberal
Leader since 9 April 2018 19 April 2022
Leader's seat Croydon Black
Last election 27 seats 16 seats
Current seats 27 seats 16 seats
Seats needed 8
Incumbent Premier

Peter Malinauskas
Australian Labor Party


Like federal elections, South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting for single-member electorates in the lower house and optional preference single transferable voting in the proportionally represented upper house. The election will be conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Australia.

Date

The last state election was held on 19 March 2022 to elect members for the House of Assembly and half of the members in the Legislative Council.[1]

Section 28 of the Constitution Act 1934, as amended in 2001, states that parliaments have fixed four-year terms, with elections to be held on the third Saturday in March every four years unless this date falls the day after Good Friday, occurs within the same month as a Federal election, or the conduct of the election could be adversely affected by a state disaster. Section 28 also states that the Governor may also dissolve the Assembly and call an election for an earlier date if the government has lost the confidence of the Assembly or a bill of special importance has been rejected by the Legislative Council. Section 41 states that both the Council and the Assembly may also be dissolved simultaneously if a deadlock occurs between them.[2]

References
  1. 2022 State Election Electoral Commission of South Australia
  2. Constition Act 1934 Parliament of South Australia
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