This is a list of historical by-elections for the South Australian Legislative Council. They were caused by the resignation or death of an incumbent member.
History From inauguration until the 1975 election and the introduction of South Australian Legislative Council appointments, casual vacancies in the Legislative Council, like the House of Assembly, were also filled at by-elections. Amendments to the South Australian Constitution and Electoral Acts in that year saw the whole state become a single electorate for the Legislative Council and gave, in line with the Australian Senate, an assembly of members of both Houses of Parliament the right to meet to choose a replacement member. The constitution also states that if the previous sitting Legislative Council member was at the time of his/her election the representative of a particular political party, that party should nominate a replacement from amongst its own members.South Australian By-Elections 1851-2013: ECSA
List of by-elections Gains for Labor are highlighted in red; for Liberal and its predecessors in blue; and others in grey.
By-election Date Incumbent Party Winner Party Cause The Province 3 April 1860 Arthur Henry FreelingEdward Castres Gwynne George Marsden WaterhouseGeorge Tinline ResignedFailure to attend The Province 7 August 1863Thomas Shuldham O'HalloranWilliam ScottGeorge Tinline Edward McEllisterThomas ElderJohn Baker ResignedResignedFailure to attend The Province 26 September 1866 The Province 26 November 1866Charles Bonney William Parkin Resigned The Province 6 August 1867Abraham Scott, Thomas Magarey, George Hall John Crozier, William Morgan, Emanuel Solomon ResignedResignedDeathUncontested 4 July 1870John Tuthill Bagot John B. Neales Resigned The Province 4 October 1871John Henry BarrowAugustine StowEmanuel Solomon William StorrieThomas ElderPhilip Santo Resigned (3) The Province 22 September 1873John B. Neales William Sandover Deceased The Province 10 September 1878 Thomas EnglishWilliam StorrieThomas ElderWilliam Everard Henry ScottAllan CampbellJohn HodgkissCharles Burney Young ResignedResignedResignedFailure to attend the Parliament The Province 7 July 1880Walter DuffieldHenry Kent HughesCharles Burney Young John Dunn Jr.James Garden RamsayAlexander Borthwick Murray Resigned (3)Central 28 February 1884Sir William Morgan William Knox Simms DeceasedSouthern7 July 1885 Thomas English Samuel Tomkinson DeceasedNorth-Eastern28 June 1886George Witherage Cotton John Bosworth ResignedCentral 25 June 1887John CrozierJohn Brodie Spence Alfred Muller SimpsonJohn Howard Angas Deceased Resigned Northern6 July 1887William Dening Glyde William Copley ResignedNorthern11 July 1888William Wadham Arthur Richman Addison ResignedSouthern28 June 1890 James Garden Ramsay Friedrich Eduard Heinrich Wulf Krichauff DeceasedSouthern11 July 1891 W. A. E. West-Erskine John Lancelot Stirling ResignedCentral 15 April 1893 George Witherage Cotton William Alfred Robinson DeceasedSouthern15 April 1893 John Hannah Gordon John Hannah Gordon Resigned due to financial difficulties, but stood for the vacant seat and was electedCentral 11 September 1897 David Charleston United Labour PartyDavid Morley Charleston IndependentResignedNorth-Eastern4 June 1898William Haslam John Lewis DeceasedNorthern26 November 1898Allan Campbell Andrew Tennant DeceasedNorth East uncontested 31 March 1900 James Martin John James Duncan DeceasedCentral 22 September 1900 Samuel Tomkinson Charles Cameron Kingston DeceasedCentral uncontested 9 February 1901 Charles Cameron Kingston John Langdon Parsons Resigned Central uncontested 1 June 1901 David Morley Charleston George Brookman Seated in Federal ParliamentSouthern 8 June 1901 Gregor McGregor, Richard Chaffey Baker Alfred von Doussa, George Riddoch Seated in Federal Parliament (2)Central 19 September 1903 John Langdon Parsons Hugo Carl Emil Muecke Deceased Southern uncontested 14 December 1903 John Hannah Gordon Louis von Doussa ResignedCentral 19 December 1903 Robert Storrie Guthrie Beaumont Arnold Moulden ResignedCentral20 October 1906Henry Thompson IndependentDavid Jelley LaborDeathCentral3 November 1906Joseph Vardon IndependentJames Phillips Wilson LaborResignationCentral2 March 1907David Jelley LaborFrederick Samuel Wallis LaborDeathCentral15 May 1909Andrew Kirkpatrick LaborTheodore Bruce IndependentDeathCentral5 August 1911Theodore Bruce LiberalCharles Morris LiberalDeathMidland15 November 1913John Duncan LiberalDavid Gordon LiberalDeathSouthern16 August 1915John Downer LiberalJoseph Botterill LiberalDeathCentral No. 220 August 1915Ern Klauer LaborWilliam Humphrey Harvey LaborDeathSouthern9 October 1920Joseph Botterill LiberalThomas McCallum LiberalDeathCentral No. 127 October 1928Andrew Kirkpatrick LaborFrank Condon LaborDeathCentral No. 117 August 1929John Carr LaborStanley Whitford LaborDeathCentral No. 124 October 1931Tom Gluyas LaborJoseph Anderson IndependentDeathSouthern17 June 1932Lancelot Stirling LCLReuben Cranstoun Mowbray LCLDeathNorthern20 October 1934William Morrow LCLLyell McEwin LCLDeathCentral No. 214 December 1935William Humphrey Harvey LCLEdward Holden LCLDeathSouthern18 June 1938Thomas McCallum LCLAlec Bagot IndependentDeathNorthern2 September 1939Hartley Gladstone Hawkins LCLJames Beerworth LaborDeathMidland1 November 1948Douglas Peel Gordon LCLColin Rowe LCLDeathNorthern14 May 1949Percy Blesing LCLRobert Richard Wilson LCLDeathSouthern26 May 1949Norman Brookman LCLJohn Lancelot Cowan LCLDeathCentral No. 124 October 1951Oscar Oates LaborStan Bevan LaborDeathMidland26 February 1955Reginald Rudall LCLRoss Story LCLDeathCentral No. 116 September 1961Frank Condon LaborAlfred Kneebone LaborDeathMidland20 October 1962Alexander Melrose LCLLes Hart LCLDeathSouthern15 December 1962Allan Hookings LCLRen DeGaris LCLDeathSouthern19 June 1964Geoffrey Giles LCLHenry Kemp LCLResignationCentral No. 24 December 1965Frank Perry LCLMurray Hill LCLDeathNorthern29 October 1966Dudley Octoman LCLArthur Whyte LCLResignationSouthern2 June 1967Les Densley LCLVictor George Springett LCLResignationCentral No. 115 May 1970Stan Bevan LaborTom Casey LaborResignationMidland12 September 1970Colin Rowe LCLKeith Russack LCLDeathSouthern3 July 1971Norman Jude LCLMartin Cameron LCLResignationSouthern11 August 1973Henry Kemp LCLJohn Burdett LCLDeath
See also List of South Australian House of Assembly by-elections List of South Australian Legislative Council appointments
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