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1947 South Australian State Election
State elections were held in South Australia on 8 March 1947. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League government led by Premier of South Australia Thomas Playford IV defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Robert Richards. Background The LCL won three seats—metropolitan Norwood, Prospect and Torrens—from Labor. The LCL won back rural Victoria after losing it to Labor at a by-election in 1945. Results * The primary vote figures were from contested seats, while the state-wide two-party-preferred vote figures were estimated from all seats. See also * Results of the South Australian state election, 1947 (House of Assembly) * Candidates of the 1947 South Australian state election * Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1947-1950 * Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1947-1950 *Playmander The Playmander was a pro-rural ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian House Of Assembly
The House of Assembly (also known as the lower house) is one of two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. Overview The House of Assembly was created in 1857, when South Australia attained self-government. The development of an elected legislature — although only men could vote — marked a significant change from the prior system, where legislative power was in the hands of the Governor and the Legislative Council, which was appointed by the Governor. In 1895, the House of Assembly granted women the right to vote and stand for election to the legislature. South Australia was the second place in the world to do so after New Zealand in 1893, and the first to allow women to stand for election. (The first woman candidates for the South Australia Assembly ran in 1918 general election, in Adelaide and Sturt.) From 1857 to 1933, the House of Assembly was elected from mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Prospect (South Australia)
Prospect was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1938 to 1956. The seat of Prospect was abolished and replaced by the new seat of Enfield for the 1956 election. The current Prospect booths are marginal Labor, with the suburb represented by the marginal Liberal seat of Adelaide up to Regency Road Regency Road (and its eastern section as Muller Road) is a main east-west road forming a continuous connection between the inner northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. Located approximately north of the city centre, Regency Road carries ..., with the small northern remainder of Prospect represented by the fairly safe Labor seat of Enfield. Members Election results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Prospect Former electoral districts of South Australia 1938 establishments in Australia 1956 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Elections In Australia
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network. * January 1 – The ''Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946, Canadian Citizenship Act'' comes into effect, providing a Canadian citizenship separate from British law. * January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine ''Der Spiegel'' published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein. * January 10 – The United Nations adopts a resolution to take control of the free city of Trieste. * January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elections In South Australia
This is a list of state elections in South Australia for the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, consisting of the House of Assembly (lower house) and the Legislative Council (upper house). See also * List of South Australian House of Assembly by-elections * List of South Australian Legislative Council appointments * List of South Australian Legislative Council by-elections * Electoral districts of South Australia * Timeline of Australian elections * Electoral results for the Australian Senate in South Australia External linksLower House results 1890-1965 Parliament of SA, www.parliament.sa.gov.au {{South Australian elections [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playmander
The Playmander was a pro-rural electoral Apportionment (politics), malapportionment in the Australian state of South Australia, which was introduced by the incumbent Liberal and Country League (LCL) government in 1936, and remained in place for 32 years until 1968. The term is a portmanteau of Thomas Playford IV, Playford and "gerrymander". Unlike in the US, where it originated, the term "gerrymander" was commonly used in Australia to refer to malapportionments, which were common in Australian state electoral systems. This consisted of 26 low-population rural seats holding as much as 10 times the voting power of the 13 high-population Adelaide-based seats in the Parliament of South Australia, state parliament, even though rural seats contained only a third of South Australia's population by the late 1960s. At the peak of the malapportionment in 1968 South Australian state election, 1968, the rural seat of Electoral district of Frome, Frome had 4,500 formal votes, while the metrop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The South Australian Legislative Council, 1947-1950
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Candidates Of The 1947 South Australian State Election
The 1947 South Australian state election was held on 8 March 1947. Retiring Members Labor * Bob Dale, MHA (Adelaide) LCL * Archibald McDonald Archibald McDonald (3 February 1790 – 15 January 1853) was chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Langley, Fort Nisqually and Fort Colvile and one-time deputy governor of the Red River Colony. Early life McDonald was born in Leec ..., MHA ( Burra) * Frank Smith, MHA ( Glenelg) House of Assembly Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used. Legislative Council Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour and identified by an asterisk (*). References {{South Australian election candidates Candidates for South Australian state elections 1947 elections in Australia 1940s in South Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of The South Australian State Election, 1947 (House Of Assembly)
This is a list of House of Assembly results for the 1947 South Australian state election. Results by electoral district Adelaide * Preferences were not distributed. Albert Alexandra * Preferences were not distributed. Angas Burnside Burra Chaffey Eyre Flinders Frome Gawler Glenelg * Preferences were not distributed. Goodwood Gouger Gumeracha Hindmarsh Light * Preferences were not distributed. Mitcham Mount Gambier Murray Newcastle Norwood Onkaparinga * Preferences were not distributed. Port Adelaide Port Pirie Prospect Ridley Rocky R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia House Of Assembly 1947
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). South is sometimes abbreviated as S. Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Border Watch
''The Border Watch'' is an Australian newspaper based in Mount Gambier, South Australia, as of October 2020 owned by TBW Today Pty Ltd. The paper services Mount Gambier, the South Australian Limestone Coast, and parts of Western Victoria. It is the oldest and largest regional newspaper in South Australia. After 159 years of publishing the newspaper (along with sister publications ''The Pennant'' and the '' South Eastern Times'') was briefly discontinued on 21 August 2020. However, ''The Border Watch'' resumed operation, under a consortium of new publishing owners, in an initial weekly format on 16 October 2020. History ''The Border Watch'' was first published on 26 April 1861 by proprietor and editor Andrew Frederick Laurie (1843–1920), aided by his brother Park Laurie (1846–1928) and their mother, the widow of the Rev. Alexander Laurie, first Presbyterian minister of nearby Portland, Victoria. It started as a 4-page, single broadsheet weekly in Gambierton, as Mount Gamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 Victoria State By-election
1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year Nazi concentration camps, concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat. Events World War II will be abbreviated as “WWII” January * January 1 – WWII: ** Nazi Germany, Germany begins Operation Bodenplatte, an attempt by the ''Luftwaffe'' to cripple Allies of World War II, Allied air forces in the Low Countries. ** Chenogne massacre: German prisoners are allegedly killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne, Belgium. * January 6 – WWII: A German offensive recaptures Esztergom, Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary from the Soviets. * January 9 – WWII: American and Australian troops land at Lingayen Gulf on western coast of the largest Philippine island of Luzon, occupied by Japan since 1942. * January 12 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
