South Australian state election, 1968

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2 March 1968 (1968-03-02)

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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	Steele Hall	Don Dunstan
Party	Liberal and Country League	Labor
Leader since	1966	1 June 1967
Leader's seat	Gouger	Norwood
Last election	18 seats	21 seats
Seats won	20 seats	19 seats
Seat change	2	2
Percentage	46.8%	53.2%
Swing	1.1	1.1

Premier before election

Don Dunstan
Labor

Elected Premier

Steele Hall
Liberal and Country League

Don Dunstan
Labor

Steele Hall
Liberal and Country League

The 1968 South Australian State election was held in South Australia on 2 March 1968. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia Don Dunstan was defeated by the Liberal and Country League led by Leader of the Opposition Steele Hall.

Independent: Tom Stott

The election saw the Liberal and Country League opposition form a minority government, winning the same number of seats in the House of Assembly as the incumbent Australian Labor Party government, despite the fact that Labor won 53.2 percent of the two-party vote, and the LCL only 46.8. This result was due to what had become known as the Playmander − an electoral malapportionment that had previously resulted in the LCL also forming government despite having a clear minority of the statewide two-party vote in 1944, 1953 and 1962.

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