Election campaigning is just getting started, and South Australia could provide the Coalition with its toughest challenge yet.
Expected job losses in manufacturing and defence have hit voter sentiment hard, and even Christopher Pyne's once-safe Liberal seat is under threat.
The state's most senior government politician, Christopher Pyne, has held Sturt for the past 23 years. He has a 10 per cent margin.
Political analyst William Bowe [BO] says he's likely to feel the heat from smaller parties like Independent Senator Nick Xenophon's political party, the Nick Xenophon team.
South Australia is already the state with the highest unemployment.
John Spoehr, Director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute at Flinders University, says the election in South Australia is all about jobs, and the prospect of more job losses is likely to weigh heavily on the minds of voters.
