South Australian Legislative Assembly

House of Assembly
Type
Type	Lower house of the Parliament of South Australia
History
Founded	1857
Leadership
Speaker	Michael Atkinson, Labor Since 5 February 2013
Deputy Speaker	Frances Bedford, Labor Since 6 May 2014
Structure
Seats	47
Political groups	Government      Labor (23) Opposition      Liberal (20) Crossbench      Independent (4)
Elections
Voting system	Full preferential voting
Meeting place
House of Assembly Chamber, Parliament House, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Website
SA House of Assembly

The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. The fourth-term South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party has been in government since the 2002 election.

The 47-seat house consists of 23 Labor, 20 Liberal and 4 independents. Following the 2014 election, the lower house consisted of 23 Labor, 22 Liberal and 2 independents, Geoff Brock and Bob Such. Martin Hamilton-Smith became an independent shortly after the election, reducing the Liberals to 21 seats. Both Hamilton-Smith and fellow independent Brock are in cabinet and provide confidence and supply while retaining the right to vote on conscience. Labor went from minority to majority government when Nat Cook won the 2014 Fisher by-election which was triggered by the death of Bob Such. Despite this, the Jay Weatherill Labor government kept crossbench MPs Brock and Hamilton-Smith in cabinet, giving the government a 26 to 21 parliamentary majority.Frances Bedford resigned from Labor and became an independent on 28 March 2017 after Jack Snelling was endorsed for Florey pre-selection as a result of the major electoral redistribution ahead of the 2018 election. As with the rest of the crossbench, Bedford will continue to provide confidence and supply support to the incumbent Labor government.Duncan McFetridge resigned from the Liberals and moved to the crossbench as an independent in May 2017 after losing party endorsement for Morphett pre-selection.