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| State election major party leaders |
| < 1989 1993 1997 > |
Labor
Lynn Arnold
Premier
Parliament: 14 years
Leader since: 1992
Division: Ramsay
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Liberal
Dean Brown
Opposition Leader
Parliament: 14 years
Leader since: 1992
Division: Finniss
WIN
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State elections were held in Australia on December 11, 1993. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia Lynn Arnold was defeated by the Liberal Party of Australia led by Dean Brown.
The campaign was dominated by the issue of the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia in 1992. The State Bank's deposits were legally underwritten by the Government of South Australia, putting South Australia into billions of dollars of debt. Labor premier John Bannon had resigned over the issue, being replaced by Lynn Arnold, but this did not appease voter anger.
[edit] Post-election pendulum
A by-election in 1994 saw Torrens fall to Labor.
Metro SA: ALP in red, Liberal in blue. Please note that these boundaries are based on the latest electoral redistribution. Click
here for boundary lines as of
1997.
Rural SA: ALP in red, Liberal in blue. Please note that these boundaries are based on the latest electoral redistribution. Click
here for boundary lines as of
1997.
In the Legislative Council, Liberal won 6 seats, Labor 4, and the Australian Democrats 1. This left the total upper house numbers at Liberals 11, Labor 9, Democrats 2.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Political Parties
