The ABC projects that the Labor Party has been re-elected in South Australia.<\/p>\n
It means Peter Malinauskas has led his party to a second consecutive election win.<\/p>\n
Labor is also projected to hold a majority in parliament’s lower house.<\/p>\n
The ALP headquarters is starting to fill up as supporters make their way into the party’s official function ahead of the arrival of Mr Malinauskas.<\/p>\n
Liberal Leader Ashton Hurn is also projected to retain her seat of Schubert, in the state’s Barossa Valley region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She previously held the seat with a margin of 11.9 per cent and has had an almost 6 swing against her based in primary votes.<\/p>\n
SA Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said there was “no chance of arrogance” from Mr Malinauskas or the Labor Party, despite tonight’s win.<\/p>\n
“Peter is a once in a generation leader \u2026 he has transformed the Labor Party,” he said.<\/p>\n
“If the South Australian public sees us acting arrogantly they’ll punish us accordingly, and so they should.”<\/p>\n
The ABC’s chief election analyst Casey Briggs said despite the projected Labor win, the results were still being deciphered.<\/p>\n
“There are a lot of results still to pick through and a very complicated picture on the conservative side of politics, but there’s one thing that we’re pretty sure of at this point, and that is that the Labor government has been re-elected,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said it appeared Labor was continuing to pick up seats.<\/p>\n
Mr Briggs said while there was strong support for Labor in the Adelaide metropolitan area, it was more complicated in the state’s regional areas, with figures showing the Liberal Party vote on 18 per cent and One Nation “just shy of 23”.<\/p>\n
Liberal senator Anne Ruston said she thought Liberal Leader Ashton Hurn was “a brilliant leader” and that she would still be the party’s leader in the morning.<\/p>\n
“I would say to all of my colleagues, Ashton is a brilliant leader, she’s proved herself over the last three months and anybody who doesn’t want to get behind Ashton and support her as our leader going forward, quite frankly, should rethink about whether they really want to be in the Liberal Party.”Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ABC projects that the Labor Party has been re-elected in South Australia. It means Peter Malinauskas has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45464,64,63,1788,4273,44,274085,121980,274084,9804,25667],"class_list":["post-554754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-ashton-hurn","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-labor","tag-liberal","tag-news","tag-peter-malinaukas","tag-sa-election","tag-south-australian-2026-election","tag-state-election","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}