List of South Australian Legislative Council by-elections explained

This is a list of historical by-elections for the South Australian Legislative Council. They were caused by the resignation or death of an incumbent member.

History

From inauguration until the 1975 election and the introduction of South Australian Legislative Council appointments, casual vacancies in the Legislative Council, like the House of Assembly, were also filled at by-elections. Amendments to the South Australian Constitution and Electoral Acts in that year 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. The constitution also 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.^[1]

List of by-elections

Gains for Labor are highlighted in red; for Liberal and its predecessors in blue; and others in grey.

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner^[2]	Party		Cause
	3 April 1860	Arthur Henry Freeling Edward Castres Gwynne				George Marsden Waterhouse George Tinline				Resigned Failure to attend
	7 August 1863	Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran William Scott George Tinline				Edward McEllister Thomas Elder John Baker				Resigned Resigned Failure to attend
	26 September 1866	Judah Moss Solomon Samuel Davenport Edward McEllister George Fife Angas				Thomas Hogarth John Hodgkiss Henry Mildred John Tuthill Bagot				Resigned Resigned Died Resigned
	26 November 1866	Charles Bonney				William Parkin				Resigned
	6 August 1867	Abraham Scott, Thomas Magarey, George Hall				John Crozier, William Morgan, Emanuel Solomon				Resigned Resigned Death
Uncontested	4 July 1870	John Tuthill Bagot				John B. Neales				Resigned
	4 October 1871	John Henry Barrow Augustine Stow Emanuel Solomon				William Storrie Thomas Elder Philip Santo				Resigned (3)
	22 September 1873	John B. Neales				William Sandover				Deceased
	10 September 1878	Thomas English William Storrie Thomas Elder William Everard				Henry Scott Allan Campbell John Hodgkiss Charles Burney Young				Resigned Resigned Resigned Failure to attend the Parliament
	7 July 1880	Walter Duffield Henry Kent Hughes Charles Burney Young				John Dunn Jr. James Garden Ramsay Alexander Borthwick Murray				Resigned (3)
	28 February 1884	Sir William Morgan				William Knox Simms				Deceased
Southern	7 July 1885	Thomas English				Samuel Tomkinson				Deceased
North-Eastern	28 June 1886	George Witherage Cotton				John Bosworth				Resigned
	25 June 1887	John Crozier John Brodie Spence				Alfred Muller Simpson John Howard Angas				Deceased Resigned
Northern	6 July 1887	William Dening Glyde				William Copley				Resigned
Northern	11 July 1888	William Wadham				Arthur Richman Addison				Resigned
Southern	28 June 1890	James Garden Ramsay				Friedrich Eduard Heinrich Wulf Krichauff				Deceased
Southern	11 July 1891	W. A. E. West-Erskine				John Lancelot Stirling				Resigned
	15 April 1893	George Witherage Cotton				William Alfred Robinson				Deceased
Southern	15 April 1893	John Hannah Gordon				John Hannah Gordon^[3]				Resigned due to financial difficulties, but stood for the vacant seat and was elected
	11 September 1897	David Charleston			United Labour Party	David Morley Charleston			Independent	Resigned^[4]
North-Eastern	4 June 1898	William Haslam				John Lewis				Deceased
Northern	26 November 1898	Allan Campbell				Andrew Tennant				Deceased
North East uncontested	31 March 1900	James Martin				John James Duncan				Deceased
	22 September 1900	Samuel Tomkinson				Charles Cameron Kingston				Deceased
Central uncontested	9 February 1901	Charles Cameron Kingston				John Langdon Parsons				Resigned
Central uncontested	1 June 1901	David Morley Charleston				George Brookman				Seated in Federal Parliament
Southern	8 June 1901	Gregor McGregor, Richard Chaffey Baker				Alfred von Doussa, George Riddoch				Seated in Federal Parliament (2)
	19 September 1903	John Langdon Parsons				Hugo Carl Emil Muecke				Deceased
Southern uncontested	14 December 1903	John Hannah Gordon				Louis von Doussa				Resigned
	19 December 1903	Robert Storrie Guthrie				Beaumont Arnold Moulden				Resigned
Central	20 October 1906				Independent				Labor	Death
Central	3 November 1906				Independent				Labor	Resignation
Central	2 March 1907				Labor				Labor	Death
Central	15 May 1909				Labor				Independent	Death
Central	5 August 1911				Liberal				Liberal	Death
Midland	15 November 1913				Liberal				Liberal	Death
Southern	16 August 1915				Liberal				Liberal	Death
Central No. 2	20 August 1915				Labor				Labor	Death
Southern	9 October 1920				Liberal				Liberal	Death
Central No. 1	27 October 1928				Labor				Labor	Death
Central No. 1	17 August 1929				Labor				Labor	Death
Central No. 1	24 October 1931				Labor				Independent	Death
Southern	17 June 1932				LCL				LCL	Death
Northern	20 October 1934				LCL				LCL	Death
Central No. 2	14 December 1935				LCL				LCL	Death
Southern	18 June 1938				LCL				Independent	Death
Northern	2 September 1939				LCL				Labor	Death
Midland	1 November 1948				LCL				LCL	Death
Northern	14 May 1949				LCL				LCL	Death
Southern	26 May 1949				LCL				LCL	Death
Central No. 1	24 October 1951				Labor				Labor	Death
Midland	26 February 1955				LCL				LCL	Death
Central No. 1	16 September 1961				Labor				Labor	Death
Midland	20 October 1962				LCL				LCL	Death
Southern	15 December 1962				LCL				LCL	Death
Southern	19 June 1964				LCL				LCL	Resignation
Central No. 2	4 December 1965				LCL				LCL	Death
Northern	29 October 1966				LCL				LCL	Resignation
Southern	2 June 1967				LCL				LCL	Resignation
Central No. 1	15 May 1970				Labor				Labor	Resignation
Midland	12 September 1970				LCL	Keith Russack			LCL	Death
Southern	3 July 1971				LCL	Martin Cameron			LCL	Resignation
Southern	11 August 1973				LCL	John Burdett			LCL	Death

See also

• List of South Australian House of Assembly by-elections
• List of South Australian Legislative Council appointments

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Web site: Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836-2007: SA Parliament . 26 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190311113513/http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf . 11 March 2019 . dead .
3. News: THE LABOR PARTY AND THE ELECTIONS. . . 4241 . New South Wales, Australia . 28 January 1893 . 13 December 2018 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
4. News: THE CENTRAL DISTRICT ELECTION. . . XXIX . 8368 . South Australia . 13 September 1897 . 13 December 2018 . 3 (ONE O'CLOCK EDITION) . National Library of Australia.