South Australian state election, 1933

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8 April 1933 (1933-04-08)

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All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly
24 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Richard L. Butler	Edgar Dawes
Party	Liberal and Country League	Labor
Leader since	1925	1931
Leader's seat	Wooroora	Sturt
Last election	13 seats	30 seats
Seats won	29 seats	6 seats
Seat change	16	24
Percentage	34.62%	27.78%
Swing	1.04	20.86

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Robert Richards	Doug Bardolph
Party	Parliamentary Labor Party	Lang Labor Party
Leader since	1933	1931
Leader's seat	Wallaroo	Adelaide
Last election	new party	new party
Seats won	4 seats	3 seats
Seat change	4	3
Percentage	16.30%	3.68%
Swing	16.30	3.68

Premier before election

Robert Richards
Parliamentary Labor

Elected Premier

Richard L. Butler
Liberal and Country League

Robert Richards
Parliamentary Labor

Richard L. Butler
Liberal and Country League

State elections were held in South Australia on 8 April 1933. All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party government led by Premier Robert Richards was defeated by the opposition Liberal and Country League led by Leader of the Opposition Richard L. Butler. Each district elected multiple members.

After the Labor government of Premier Lionel Hill endorsed the controversial Premiers' Plan following the start of the Great Depression and the subsequent Australian Labor Party split of 1931, the ALP state executive expelled 23 of the 30 members of the ALP caucus. The expelled MPs formed the Parliamentary Labor Party (also known as Premiers Plan Labor), with Hill as leader, and continued in office with the support of the Liberal Federation under Butler.

Amid increasing riots and protests, as well as skyrocketing unemployment, Hill left politics to become Australian Agent-General to the United Kingdom. He was succeeded by Robert Richards, who had the impossible task of leading the party into the election.

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