South Australian state election, 1977

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17 September 1977 (1977-09-17)

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All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly
24 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Don Dunstan	David Tonkin
Party	Labor	Liberal
Leader since	1 June 1967	1975
Leader's seat	Norwood	Bragg
Last election	23 seats	20 seats
Seats won	27 seats	17 seats
Seat change	4	3
Percentage	53.4%	46.6%
Swing	4.2	4.2

Premier before election

Don Dunstan
Labor

Elected Premier

Don Dunstan
Labor

State elections were held in South Australia on 17 September 1977. All 47 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 won a fourth term in government, defeating the Liberal Party of Australia led by Leader of the Opposition David Tonkin.

Parliamentary elections for the lower house of the Parliament of South Australia were held in South Australia in 1977, which saw Don Dunstan and the Australian Labor Party win a fourth successive term, against the Liberal Party of Australia opposition led by David Tonkin. This would be Dunstan's last election before collapsing in parliament and resigning due to ill health.

It was the first time that a Labor government in South Australia had been re-elected for a fourth term, and would be the first nine-year-incumbent Labor government.

This was the first election after the end of Playmander seat weighting where one vote one value was introduced. At the previous election some metropolitan seats still saw more than three times the number of voters than in some rural seats, despite most of the Playmander being abolished nearly a decade ago.

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