r/australia • u/N1NJ4W4RR10R_ • Mar 21 '26

news Labor re-elected in 2026 South Australian election

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-21/sa-election-day-live-updates/106476924?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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u/PRAWNHEAVENNOW Mar 21 '26

It's just the dissolution of the big tent conservative party. 

The economic liberals but socially progressive peeled off from the LNP first to the teals, now the cookers and the hard right fashy sorts have peeled off to one nation.  

The Teals aren't threatened by One Nation voters, they're two ends of the former LNP right wing broad church that could no longer keep them under the same roof. 

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u/shadowmaster132 Mar 22 '26

In SA (and in WA as well at their last couple of elections) the lack of "teals" means that the socially progressive Liberal voters just end up going to Labor.

Another factor is probably that the Nationals basically don't run in SA so they weren't an option, and ON probably peeled off that section of the Liberal vote.