South Australian state election, 1944

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29 April 1944 (1944-04-29)

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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	20 seats	11 seats
Seats won	20 seats	16 seats
Seat change	0	5
Percentage	46.7%	53.3%

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 April 1944. 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.

Labor won an additional five seats totaling 16 seats − the highest number of seats won by Labor from the 1933 election through to the 1959 election, an effort not even outdone at the 1953 election where Labor won 53 percent of the statewide two-party vote but the LCL retained government with the assistance of the Playmander − an electoral malapportionment that also saw a clear majority of the statewide two-party vote won by Labor while failing to form government in 1953, 1962 and 1968.

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