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All 39 seats in theSouth Australian House of Assembly 20 seats were needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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State elections were held inSouth Australia on 29 March 1941. All 39 seats in theSouth Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbentLiberal and Country League government led byPremier of South AustraliaThomas Playford IV defeated the oppositionAustralian Labor Party led byLeader of the OppositionRobert Richards.
Though the LCL was inminority government with 15 of 39 seats following the1938 election, where 14 of 39 lower house MPs were elected as independents which as a grouping won more than either major party with 40 percent of the primary vote, the Playford LCL won a one-seatmajority government following the 1941 election.
Turnout crashed to a record-low 50 percent, triggering the government to institutecompulsory voting from the1944 election.
South Australian state election, 29 March 1941[1] | ||||||
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| Enrolled voters | 339,263 | |||||
| Votes cast | 171,978 | Turnout | 50.69% | -12.62% | ||
| Informal votes | 3,365 | Informal | 1.96% | -0.20% | ||
| Summary of votes by party | ||||||
| Party | Primary votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
| Liberal and Country | 63,317 | 37.55% | +4.12% | 20 | + 5 | |
| Labor | 56,062 | 33.25% | +7.08% | 11 | + 2 | |
| Independent | 41,487 | 24.60% | –9.48% | 5 | – 7 | |
| Independent Labor | 5,090 | 3.02% | –2.63% | 2 | ± 0 | |
| IndependentLiberal | 2,657 | 1.58% | * | 1 | + 1 | |
| Total | 168,613 | 39 | ||||
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