List of South Australian Legislative Council appointments
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This is a list of appointments to the South Australian Legislative Council, caused by the resignation or death of an incumbent member. A departure creates a casual vacancy which is filled by a candidate of the same affiliation in a joint sitting of the Parliament of South Australia. The constitution states that if the previous sitting Legislative Council member was at the time of his/her election the representative of a particular political party, that party should nominate a replacement from amongst its own members.[http://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/component/edocman/?view=document&id=473:south-australian-by-elections-1851-2011&highlight=YToxOntpOjA7czoxMToiYnktZWxlY3Rpb24iO30= South Australian By-Elections 1851-2013: ECSA]
History
Until the 1975 election, casual vacancies in the Legislative Council, like the House of Assembly, were also filled at South Australian Legislative Council by-elections. Amendments to the South Australian Constitution and Electoral Acts saw the whole state become a single electorate for the Legislative Council and gave, in line with the Australian Senate, an assembly of members of both Houses of Parliament the right to meet to choose a replacement member.
List of appointments
There have been 29 appointments since 1975: thirteen Labor, ten Liberal, three Democrats, one Family First, one Australian Greens and one independent.
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| Date | Incumbent | colspan=2 | Party | Appointee {{Cite web |url=http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf |title=Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836-2007: SA Parliament |access-date=27 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311113513/http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf |archive-date=11 March 2019 |url-status=dead }} | colspan=2 | Party | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2023
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 24 August 2021
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 4 May 2021
|{{Australian party style|Greens}}| |{{Australian party style|Greens}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 7 April 2020
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 28 February 2017
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 1 December 2015
|{{Australian party style|Independent}}| |Independent {{ref label|a|a|a}} |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 17 October 2012
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 13 September 2011
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 17 February 2009
|{{Australian party style|Democrats}}| |{{Australian party style|Democrats}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 24 July 2008
|{{Australian party style|Family First}}| |{{Australian party style|Family First}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 21 November 2007
|{{Australian party style|Independent}}| |{{Australian party style|Independent}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 2 May 2006
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 2 May 2006
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Death | |||||
| 26 June 2003
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 17 February 2003
|{{Australian party style|Democrats}}| |{{Australian party style|Democrats}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 1 September 2000
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 10 October 1995
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 26 September 1995
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 13 September 1994
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 10 February 1994
|{{Australian party style|Democrats}}| |{{Australian party style|Democrats}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 3 August 1993
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 23 October 1990
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 14 February 1989
|Dr John Cornwall |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 4 August 1988
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 24 February 1987
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 11 February 1986
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 1 June 1982
|{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |{{Australian party style|Labor}}| |Death | |||||
| 31 July 1979
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Resignation | |||||
| 7 March 1978
|{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |{{Australian party style|Liberal}}| |Death |
See also
Notes
{{note label|a|a|a}} Though Finnigan sat as an independent from 2011, he was elected as a Labor candidate at the 2010 election, as such the joint sitting duly endorsed a Labor appointment.
References
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