South Australian state election, 1941

← 1938

29 March 1941 (1941-03-29)

1944 →

All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly
20 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Thomas Playford	Robert Richards
Party	Liberal and Country League	Labor
Leader since	5 November 1938	1938
Leader's seat	Gumeracha	Wallaroo
Last election	15 seats	9 seats
Seats won	20 seats	11 seats
Seat change	5	2
Percentage	37.55%	33.25%
Swing	4.12	7.08

Premier before election

Thomas Playford
Liberal and Country League

Elected Premier

Thomas Playford
Liberal and Country League

State elections were held in South Australia on 29 March 1941. 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.

Though the LCL was in minority government with 15 of 39 seats following the 1938 election, where 14 of 39 lower house MPs were elected as independents which as a grouping won more than either major party with 40 percent of the primary vote, the Playford LCL won a one-seat majority government following the 1941 election.

Turnout crashed to a record-low 50 percent, triggering the government to institute compulsory voting from the 1944 election.

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