Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The 2018 South Australian state election will elect members to the 54th Parliament of South Australia on 17 March 2018. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2014 election, and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house, last filled at the 2010 election, will become vacant. The 16-year-incumbent Australian Labor Party government, currently led by Premier Jay Weatherill, will be challenged by the opposition Liberal Party of Australia, currently led by Opposition Leader Steven Marshall.The 2014 election resulted in a hung parliament with 23 seats for Labor and 22 for the Liberals. The balance of power rested with the two crossbench independents, Bob Such and Geoff Brock. Such did not indicate who he would support in a minority government before he went on two months' medical leave. Brock subsequently threw his support to Labor and became a minister. It is the longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history and is the second time that Labor has won four consecutive state elections in South Australia, the first occurred when Don Dunstan led Labor to four consecutive victories between 1970 and 1977. The last hung parliament occurred when Labor came to government in 2002.Like federal elections, South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting in the lower house and single transferable vote group voting tickets in the proportionally represented upper house. The election is being conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Australia (ECSA), an independent body answerable to Parliament.. }
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- South_Australian_state_election,_2018 abstract "The 2018 South Australian state election will elect members to the 54th Parliament of South Australia on 17 March 2018. All seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2014 election, and half the seats in the Legislative Council or upper house, last filled at the 2010 election, will become vacant. The 16-year-incumbent Australian Labor Party government, currently led by Premier Jay Weatherill, will be challenged by the opposition Liberal Party of Australia, currently led by Opposition Leader Steven Marshall.The 2014 election resulted in a hung parliament with 23 seats for Labor and 22 for the Liberals. The balance of power rested with the two crossbench independents, Bob Such and Geoff Brock. Such did not indicate who he would support in a minority government before he went on two months' medical leave. Brock subsequently threw his support to Labor and became a minister. It is the longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history and is the second time that Labor has won four consecutive state elections in South Australia, the first occurred when Don Dunstan led Labor to four consecutive victories between 1970 and 1977. The last hung parliament occurred when Labor came to government in 2002.Like federal elections, South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting in the lower house and single transferable vote group voting tickets in the proportionally represented upper house. The election is being conducted by the Electoral Commission of South Australia (ECSA), an independent body answerable to Parliament.".