(You can find my discussion in this post.). Each individual person is allowed a maximum of one vote. The best local news every workday at lunch time. Strengthened in boundary changes with neighbouring Hurtle Vale and Reynell. South Australia is moving to reform abortion laws, with MPs to get a conscience vote on proposals to remove it from the criminal statutes. Your contribution goes directly to helping our journalists uncover the facts. Voting in South Australia. Seventy towns across South Australia have been nominated for the 2020 Ag Town of the Year award with public voting for the finalists now open. While the EDBC publishes estimated margins for new electorate, for technical reasons I prefer to calculate my own. 38 were here. Seventy towns across South Australia have been nominated for the 2020 Ag Town of the Year award with public voting for the finalists now open. Gains Athol Park from Croydon. South Australian law required the electoral … Main change is gaining part of Maslin Beach from Kaurna. An amendment to the Electoral Funding Act 2018 makes it unlawful for a person to make or accept a political donation in the form of cash over $100.. The radical re-draw of boundaries set out in the draft boundaries was abandoned. Strengthened for Labor by losing parts of Grange to Colton while gaining Albert Park and Hendon from Cheltenham. Subject to any appeal to the Supreme Court of South Australia, the new boundaries will take effect at the next State election, on 19 March 2022. The Labor Opposition had no knowledge of any such proposal today, with leader Peter Malinauskas telling InDaily: “Any move by Steven Marshall to rig the next election would diminish our democracy.”. A swing of 2.0% will deliver Labor 50.1% of the two-party preferred vote, and if the swing is uniform, will deliver Labor majority government by winning the four Liberal seats on the electoral pendulum under 2.0%. The Electoral Roll in Australia play a vital role in a number of types of research including the study of genealogy. 1988; 1990-1999. After a tough year of drought, fire and contagion in the regions, South Australians are being urged to show their support by voting for their favourite town in the Agricultural Town of the Year award. And the calculus of two-party preferred swing will be undermined if Geoff Brock contests and wins Stuart. The Electoral Commission’s 2018 election review made no reference to OPV, but the 2014 document noted that around 6 per cent of votes that were declared informal would have been counted if it were in place. Where on the draft boundaries Chaffey, Hammond, Kavel and Stuart had been set above quota, on the final boundaries they have all been set below quota. Get InDaily in your inbox. Voting opens to find the 2020 AgTown of the Year Primary Industries . As a consequence, country districts have again been drawn below quota. Gains parts of Somerton Park from Morphett and loses South Brighton to Black. In most of the districts that will decide the result of the next election, there are only minor differences between the two estimates. In my earlier post I explained how the EDBC had attemtpted to deal with a 9,000 vote under-enrolment in country districts. First, the EDBC tweaks estimated margins to take account of future population growth, so despite no change in boundaries, the EDBC estimates the Liberal margin in Adelaide to decline from 1.0% to 0.8%. The Government wouldn’t rule out the move today. She is a Liberal. Areas to the east transferred to Chaffey and MacKillop with Strathalbyn and Woodchester gained from Heysen. After much opposition, Mount Barker was retained in Kavel, leaving that seat based in the Adelaide Hills, and allowing Schubert to be a Barossa Valley based seat. The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government, SA Government or Her Majesty’s Government is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of South Australia.The Government of South Australia, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, was formed in 1856 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended from time to time. A concerted effort to encourage below-the-line voting in Victoria saw the proportion of formal votes cast below the line increase from 6.1% in 2014 to 8.8% in 2018. The changes would not need to be ratified by a referendum, but would need to pass the Upper House, where key Greens crossbencher Mark Parnell said while he backed the move for the Legislative Council “we’ve never advocated for it in the Lower House”. Party sources confirm Chapman has also canvassed support for a bid to introduce ‘Optional Preferential Voting’ [OPV] in the Lower House – a move that would completely overhaul SA’s electoral system. With SA boundaries re-drawn every four years, the permitted 10% variation from quota permitted under South Australian law can be viewed as either a weak method of enforcing equality of enrolment, or a useful method of avoiding the tyranny of numbers over-ridding all other considerations in the drawing of electoral boundaries. Thanks for signing up to the InDaily newsletter. This will be presented to Parliament in due course.”. Various suburb swaps with neighbouring Dunstan, Unley and Morialta. In 2020 it is arguements over community of interest in the Adelaide Hills and Barossa Valley that has undone boundaries initially drawn with greater emphasis on equality of current and future enrolment. Your contribution goes directly to helping our journalists uncover the facts, InDaily uses cookies. Optional preferential voting is in place at South Australian council elections, but voters have to fill in at least the same number of boxes as positions to be filled. The official Facebook page of Electoral Commission of South Australia. Loses Cherry Gardens to Heysen and Bellevue Heights to Waite. Brock’s margin versus the Liberal Party in 2018 was 8.2%. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is responsible for providing the Australian people with an independent electoral service which meets their needs and encourages them to understand and participate in the electoral process. Loses its eastern end in the Adelaide Hills to Schubert. All but one of South Australia's 47 electorates have been redrawn after a major review ahead of the 2022 state election. A similar issue arises with Federal redistributions where boundaries must be re-drawn within a 10% current enrolment variation, but also a projected 3.5% variation set for 3.5 years in the future. Our website has information about enrolment, voting, electoral boundaries, and parties and candidates in South Australia. Media diversity is under threat in Australia – nowhere more so than in South Australia. Loses Gepps Cross to Enfield, gains Bolivar, Globe Derby Park and St Kilda from Taylor. Reply. Loses Glenelg North to Morphett. Daily. Support independent Major boundary changes with neighbouring safe Labor seats. Loses Para Hills, Para Hills West, Parafield and parts of Mawson Lakes to Florey. … Queensland (local) 22 August. Margins shown here are based on two-party preferred results. Elections 2020 World news Environment ... but couldn’t manage to form government at either election. ECSA has also advocated moves to curb delays in counting ballots due to increasing pre-poll votes, including allowing pre-poll votes in an elector’s own district being counted as an ordinary vote and tallied on election night. So a conceivable minimalist approach for SA Labor back to power would be winning Newland, King and Adelaide, and relying on the support of Geoff Brock and Frances Bedford. Loses its eastern end in the Adelaide Hills to Heysen, Kavel and Schubert. (The actual numbers are Liberal 25, Labor 19 with three Independents, two in underlying Liberal seats, one in a Labor seat.). Updated Updated 14/10/2020 Share In short, the Weatherill government’s abolition of fairness as a major criteria for drawing electoral boundaries meant the Commission could no longer justify consistently lower country district enrolments on the ground of it being required to achieve fairness. Radically re-drawn. Shortly after an election is announced, an official guide is made available to all Australians. A cartoon shows a less civilised election day in 1857. Only the seat of Mt Gambier has emerged unchanged in a draft report released by the Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission on Friday. My estimate of the new pendulum is set out below, followed by a table that provides old and new margins for all seats as well as brief descriptions of the boundary changes. Dealing with that resulted in the transfer of 11,800 voters in Mount Barker from Kavel to Hammond, and the transfer of 12,500 voters in Gawler from Light to Schubert. That was down from more than 20 per cent in 2010. A similar scenario has unfolded with recent draft state boundaries for NSW. Your comments can be brief, or we can accept up to 350 words, or thereabouts. The Western Australian Electoral Commission is no longer able to accept payments after this time. Premier Steven Marshal supports it. Please put “Reader views” in the subject. Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development David Basham encouraged South Australians to get involved and … So in the rest of this post, including the detailed list of changes to all districts and the new electoral pendulum, I am using my own estimates rather than those published by the EDBC. Now loses Hahndorf to Heysen and gains Lenswood and Lobethal from Morialta. 38 were here. The new boundaries will apply for the first time at the next South Australian election in March 2022. To Print the Calendar, press Ctrl P (control key and 'P' key) to open your connected printers. Loses Cowell and Kimba to Flinders, gains Port Augusta West from Stuart. Loses Plympton Park and part of Plympton to Badcoe, and loses part of Somerton Park to Gibson. Microfiche SA/Elec/3 (Commonwealth) Family History microfiche cabinets. Loses parts of Newton and Magill to Morialta. At the next State election around 220,000 electors will find themselves in a different district. This produces a huge cut in the notional Liberal majority.