South Australia State Election March 21st 2026
Electorates in alphabetical order – SA 2026
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Do you vote in a Red Light Electorate
Priority One Red Light Electorates
Labor incumbent likely to be challenged by an progressive independent candidate.
| Solomon Bean Canberra |
Priority Two Red Light Electorates
Labor incumbent likely to be challenged by a Greens or progressive micro-party candidate candidate.
Priority Three Red Light Electorates
Labor incumbent likely to be challenged by a Coalition candidate candidate.
In our pursuit of Minority Government and democratic renewal, the Team at Vote Climate One is in the process of identifying Red Light Federal electorates. This may take some time as we prioritise and develop each electorate’s profile.
Labor has 94 seats in the current parliament. We need to drag them back to 70 seats to change Australia’s political landscape so a progressive crossbench holds the balance of power. Minority government can put a brake on the vested interests controlling our two major parties.
As an example of how effective this can be the ACT Labor/Greens coalition has delivered excellent outcomes for people living in the Capital Territory over the last two decades. Canberra has been running on 100% renewable electricity since 2019, and on track to reach Net Zero by 2035.
WHY DO WE NEED MINORITY GOVERNMENT
Australian democracy is not fit for purpose. The major parties have turned their backs on a fair future for us all.
WHAT IS MINORITY GOVERNMENT?
This happens when neither major party gains 76 seats in the House of Reps. election. They have to negotiate the support of enough cross bencher members to reach 76.
CAN MINORITY GOVT. BE A GOOD DEMOCRATIC OUTCOME?
The answer is a resounding YES!
An example is the significant legislative reforms achieved by the Gillard government which struck an arrangement with three progressive cross-bench independents.
Major policy initiatives of the Gillard government included, the Clean Energy Bill 2011, asylum seeker policy, Mineral Resource Rent Tax, National Broadband Network, schools funding following the Gonski Review and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
A more recent example is the significant long term achievements in relation to climate action by the ACT Labor/Greens
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NB4 Summer in Perth
This has been a summer with no precedent in #Perth. Today is the city’s 10th day at or above 40ºC so far this season, which is a new record for summer. This is also Perth’s 5th consecutive day over 40ºC, breaking the previous record of 4 in a row. pic.twitter.com/GF9uiIQya5
— Ben Domensino (@Ben_Domensino) January 22, 2022
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Renewable Energy hits the mark
South Australia sourced an average of just over 100 per cent of the electricity it needed from renewable power for 6½ days leading up to December 29 last year – a record for the state and perhaps for comparable energy grids around the world.
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It’s Getting Hotter and Hotter
Australia is finally having a hot summer. Today even Crikey’s Worm had something to say about it:
WHAT THE FRACK
Australia equalled our hottest day on record yesterday — the mercury reached 50.7C in Onslow, WA at about 2:30pm, the BBC reports. Usually the temperature in Onslow is 36.5C around this time of year, WA Today adds. It comes just days after the EU’s satellite confirmed the last seven years have been the hottest on record — heatwaves are just one of the several dire outcomes the IPCC say humanity will suffer from if we do not act on climate change.
Australia, as one of the world’s biggest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gas emissions, is breaching human rights — that’s the conclusion of the World Report 2022 from Human Rights Watch, who said our government’s climate policy is actively unstitching our human rights record. It’s the first time there has been a Climate Change Policy and Impacts section as part of the organisation’s annual assessment.
Queensland’s emissions target of a 30% reduction by 2030 would be “[blown] out of the water”, an expert has told Guardian Australia, if the Lake Eyre basin is opened up to fracking to extract gas. Origin Energy got the green light in late December to explore the area — which is one of the last major free-flowing desert river systems — but fracking could see 199m tonnes spewed into the atmosphere every year. The government says the lease is for “exploration only” at this stage.
Followed by Argentina, the hottest place in South America, Australia yesterday had the hottest place on our only planet (almost ever!). If we don’t do something serious to stop the continuing progress of global warming, we haven’t seen anything yet.
Unfortunately, Scott Morrison and his LNP Coalition Parliament are doing all they can to keep the fossil fuel special interests that sponsor them in business when they actually need to be shut down to help resolve the still escalating climate emergency. Vote Climate One’s Traffic Light Voting Guide will help you remove your local LNP member or camp follower, or to ensure that your preferences don’t go towards supporting the election of one of their clowns.
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