Everything about Greens South Australia totally explained
Greens South Australia is a
Green Party located in
South Australia, a member of the federation of the
Australian Greens party.
Electoral history
Prior to 1995, a very small local Green party not connected to the emerging Australian Greens contested a number of State and Federal elections. This party was more or less non-functioning by the time Mark Parnell (current Greens State MLC) called the first meetings to establish a new Green Party in 1995. It took a number of attempts to get the new party off the ground, however a visit to Adelaide by Bob Brown in late 1995 provided the necessary impetus to register the new party.
The Australian Greens (SA) first ran in the
1996 federal election (where they contested every seat), followed by the
1997 state election. In both elections they scored around 1.7% of the vote.
Since that time, the SA Greens have steadily built up a support base at the
2002 and
2006 state elections, partly due to the demise of the
Democrats. At the
2006 election, Environmental lawyer
Mark Parnell became the first Green ever to be elected in SA, securing a position in the
Legislative Council with a vote of 4.3%.
Their best lower house result at the 2006 state election came in the electoral district of
Heysen, with 17.7% of first preference votes. Heysen was also the
Democrats closest lower house win, coming as close as 1.9% at the
1997 state election on a primary vote of 29.2%, finishing at 48.1% after preferences. The residual
Democrats vote could also work in the Greens favour.
Kris Hanna Defection
Kris Hanna, the member for
Mitchell, was elected as an
ALP member, but changed to The Greens in
January 2003. Hanna subsequently left the party on 8th
February 2006, citing constituents' wishes for him not to be bound to any party.
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2007 federal election
At the
2007 Federal election,
Sarah Hanson-Young became South Australia's first Greens Senator. She won the sixth and final South Australian Senate position with a primary vote of 6.49 percent. She will take her seat on July 1 2008.
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