State Of The Parties Still Unclear In South Australian Election

There has been a 1.7% swing to the ALP in today's South Australian election, but it is not yet clear if this has been enough for it to win the seats it needs to form government. The most up-to-date tally of seats is ALP 22, Liberal 18, National 1, Independents 3, Doubtful 3.

The following table shows the list of seats according to South Australian Electoral Commission figures at midnight February 9. Counting of postal and absentee votes could alter the figures. A recount in Hartley, where a counting error was discovered during the evening, will take place on Sunday. Whilst the table shows the ALP winning 4 extra seats, two of those (Cheltenham and Enfield) were already Labor seats held by disendorsed members.

SA House of Assembly - State of the Parties (47 electorates, 24 needed to form government)
Definite ALP Seats (gains in bold)	Definite Liberal Seats	Definite National Seats	Definite Independent Seats	Doubtful Seats
Adelaide Ashford Cheltenham Colton Croydon Elder Elizabeth Enfield Florey Giles Kaurna Lee Mitchell Napier Playford Port Adelaide Ramsay Reynell Taylor Torrens West Torrens Wright	Bragg Bright Davenport Finniss Flinders Frome Goyder Heysen Kavel Light MacKillop Mawson Morialta Morphett Newland Schubert Unley Waite	Chaffey	Fisher (Bob Such, ex-Liberal, likely to support a minority Liberal government.) Hammond (Peter Lewis, ex-Liberal member who was expelled from the party.) Mount Gambier (Rory McEwen would be unlikely to support the ALP.)	Hartley (The ALP has a narrow lead in this Liberal seat.) Norwood (The ALP is hanging on to this traditional Labor electorate. If they lose it, they can forget about forming government.) Stuart (The ALP's Justin Jarvis is narrowly ahead in this Liberal seat.)

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