Talk:1979 South Australian state election

Norm Foster
Since Foster resigned from the Labor party between the 1979 and 1982 elections, surely the comments on his resignation from the Labor Party belong here, because it affected the balance of power for the 1979-1982 parliament. Rocksong 04:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Seeing as he resigned in 1982, just before the elections, I don't agree. Therefore, i've added the comment back to 82, clarifying the term, and will leave it on the 1979 page. Timeshift 05:54, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * In my view of the world South Australian state election, 1979 shows the 1979-82 parliament, and South Australian state election, 1982 shows the 1982-85 parliament; and Norm Foster's resignation is relevant to the former only, so it belongs on the former only. But I'm not going to start an edit war at South Australian state election, 1982 over it. Rocksong 06:16, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

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removing some commentary
Some commentary mostly inserted in 2016 says, "In most of Australia, this would have been enough for a landslide Liberal victory. However, most of the Liberal margin was wasted on massive landslides in rural areas. The Liberals only won 13 seats in Adelaide, netting them a total of 25 seats (plus 1 National Party seat), a bare majority of two. This was pared back to 24 seats, just barely enough to form government, after the Norwood by-election." Besides being uncited, I don't think it is justified. When you count Mitcham as a conservative seat (Millhouse was an ex-Liberal), even after the Norwood by-election the conservative parties had 26 out of 47 seats (24 Lib, 1 Nat, 1 Dem), which is almost exactly in proportion to receiving 55% of the vote (47 x 0.55 = 25.85), and also the swing of 6 seats is about right. So I will rewrite it soon. Adpete (talk) 05:29, 11 February 2020 (UTC)


 * That seems like a good catch. It's a statement that's often true of South Australian elections where the Liberals do well on the 2PP but you're right that it doesn't seem to be true of this one. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 08:13, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

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