2026 South Australian state election

2026 South Australian state election

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All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly 24 seats are needed for a majority 11 (of the 22) seats in the South Australian Legislative Council
Opinion polls
Leader Peter Malinauskas Vincent Tarzia Party Labor Liberal Leader since 9 April 2018 12 August 2024 Leader's seat Croydon Hartley Last election 27 seats 16 seats Current seats 28 seats 13 seats Seats needed 11
Current seats – includes by-election outcomes (Dunstan and Black) and affiliation changes.
Incumbent Premier Peter Malinauskas Labor

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.

The incumbent Labor government, currently led by Premier Peter Malinauskas, will attempt to win a second four-year term against the Liberal opposition.

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 (ECSA), an independent body answerable to Parliament.

The election will be held on the same day as the South Australian First Nations Voice election.^[1][2]