Current Affairs: SA Election

South Australian state election will elect members to the 54th Parliament of South Australia on 17 March 2018. All 47 seats in the House of Assembly or lower house, whose current members were elected at the 2014 election, and 11 of 22 seats in the Legislative Council or upper house, The record-16-year-incumbent Australian Labor Party (SA) government, currently led by Premier Jay Weatherill, will seek a fifth four-year term against the opposition Liberal Party of Australia (SA), currently led by Opposition Leader Steven Marshall. Nick Xenophon's new SA Best party is seeking to obtain the balance of power.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill (left), South Australian Opposition Leader Steven Marshall (centre) and SA Best leader Nick Xenophon Source: AAP-Roy Vandervegt