1993 South Australian state election

1993 South Australian state election
11 December 1993 (1993-12-11)
All 47 seats in the House of Assembly
24 seats needed for a majority
11 of 22 seats in the Legislative Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Dean Brown Lynn Arnold Peter Blacker
Party Liberal Labor National
Leader since 11 May 1992 4 September 1992 10 March 1973
Leader's seat Finniss Taylor Flinders
(lost seat)
Last election 22 seats 22 seats 1 seat
Seats before 22 22 1
Seats won 37 10 0
Seat change 15 12 1
Primary vote 481,623 277,038 10,217
Percentage 52.80% 30.37% 1.11%
Swing 8.60 9.72 0.07
TPP 60.91% 39.09%
TPP swing 8.87 8.87
Premier before election

Lynn Arnold
Labor

Elected Premier

Dean Brown
Liberal

The 1993 South Australian state election was held on Saturday, 11 December 1993, to elect members of the Parliament of South Australia. All 47 seats in the House of Assembly were up for election, along with 11 of the 22 seats in the Legislative Council. The three-term incumbent Arnold Labor government were defeated in a landslide victory for the opposition Liberal Party, led by Dean Brown. The Liberals won 37 seats in the House of Assembly, the highest number of seats ever won by a single party in a South Australian election, and reduced Labor to 10 seats in opposition, their lowest amount since 1938.

This marked the Liberal's first election win since 1979, and only their second since the end of the Playmander after the 1968 election. It brought to an end a decade of Labor governance, led by John Bannon for nine of those years. It was also the first time since 1970 that no crossbenchers were elected to the House of Assembly.

Labor's historic defeat was largely attributed to the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia in 1991, which led to the resignation of Premier John Bannon the next year.

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