ABC has called the election for Labor, but there's still alot of questions about how much Labor will win by and which party will come second. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/03/2026...

The first results are out! Of course they don't mean much on their own analytically, but they do mean we're into the results part of the day! #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/03/2026...

Join me for the Tally Room live on YouTube tonight from 6:30pm Adelaide time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCv6... #sapol

I'm trying something new today and undertaking a live blog/thread regarding the SA State Election results! If you're interested in my thoughts throughout the night, check them out below (and make sure to watch Ben Raue's livestream!) #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/03/2026...

With two hours to go until the day arrives, I have published my predictions for the 2026 SA State Election. The post includes general thoughts + seat/minor party predictions. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/03/pred...

Lodging my prediction now that it’s the witching hour and fewer people will see me fail to call it accurately: House: Labor 39, Lib 4, indie 4 Council: Labor 5, Lib 3, ON 2, Green 1

I have learnt a number of things from reading this, including some I did not wish to know (the prohibition on corflutes has apparently led to vollies literally wobbleboarding by the side of the road), but the most horrifying is that MacKillop might be Gareth Ward II: Ankle Bracelet Boogaloo

With two hours to go until the day arrives, I have published my predictions for the 2026 SA State Election. The post includes general thoughts + seat/minor party predictions. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/03/pred...

One Nation disendorses candidate for Adelaide but they will still appear on the ballot paper as the One Nation candidate (Unwinnable seat).

Happy birthday to us 🎉 6 News was founded on 20 March 2019 – and we can't thank each and every one of you enough for your ongoing support We'll be LIVE tomorrow night for South Australian election coverage: youtube.com/@6NewsAU

This is genuinely horrific. Also, at this point, I'm convinced that no one in SA is vetting their candidates. It's actually insane the issues that are appearing that should come up in normal vetting procedures. #saparli #auspol

Party registration news: name change applications for Trumpet of Patriots to change back to Aus Federation and SusAus to add "Affordable Housing Now" to its name were approved, and so was the re-registration of United Australia Party (Palmer version, no connection to original)

The Advertiser (owned by News Corp/Murdoch) has endorsed Labor for the 2026 SA State Election. If you ever wondered how left-leaning Premier Malinuaksas is, I think the below excerpt from the endorsement piece tells you everything you need to know. #saparli #auspol archive.md/CzJE5

I'll be on for half an hour, very excited to talk results! Be sure to check out the entire night, it'll be a good time. #saparli #auspol

Got some updates today. Firstly, the supplementary guides have been finished. These are essentially 'condensed' versions focusing. They're for anyone who'd like the info but don't have the time for the entire guide. australianelectionguides.wordpress.com/supplementar... #saparli #auspol

Today's podcast is with @joshsunman.bsky.social about this weekend's South Australian state election. We go through the seats to watch and how preference counting might get more complicated #sapol

So far this has mainly been spotted in Elizabeth (I've seen proof of it from multiple sources). Their candidate there is Kym Hanton, who's generally been a hanger-on to minor right-wing parties (was an Aus Federation candidate in 2022, was part of Aldridge's UVAP until recently) #saparli #auspol

THE 2026 SA STATE ELECTION/POLITICAL PARTY GUIDE IS HERE (now with Independents)! The Guide is a one-stop-shop to every party/independent's bios and policies (its a research tool, not a HTV)! Please share it to as many people as you'd like! australianelectionguides.wordpress.com #saparli #auspol

Whole SA election is one comedy after the next. The Animal Justice Party had to disendorse a candidate who turned out to be a Trump-loving loon as well as an animal fan, and this only came to light because @anthonyzougras.bsky.social did the most basic Googling the party ought to have done

It would be naive to think this offensive homophobic bigot was accidentally pre-selected by the SA Liberals. This was no accident. Don’t forget Alex Antic is in charge.

THE DISASTERCLASS CONTINUES! Hurn has just said Woodhouse is no longer running for the party, despite the fact that he will still be on the ballot for Wright as a Liberal (and Ben Hood earlier saying he was still a candidate). Genuine shitshow. #saparli #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Bob Day, of the Australian Family Party, has previously claimed the AFP is endorsed by 7 right-wing parties. I have today found 6 of those, which are; The Great Australian Party, the Libertarians, the Australian Federation Party, the DLP, HEART, and Gerard Rennick's People First. #sarparli #auspol

Shockingly, he somehow isn't the worst candidate at this state election, and isn't the worst vetting failure I've seen (looking at you AJP). Doesn't change the fact that what Woodhouse is spewing is horrific, though I wouldn't be shocked if someone like Antic pushed for him due to his bs. #saparli

If you're going to be a One Nation splinter party, you might as well try to be more One Nation than One Nation, and the constant defections and fractiousness of Sarah Game's Fair Go for Australians is certainly achieving that!

Chris McDermott has said he's no longer running for Fair Go, and instead will run as an Independent in the LegCo... only, Nominations have already closed and been announced. As far as I understand, he literally cannot change where/with whom he sits on the ballot now. #saparli #auspol

Leader of the Nationals, David Littleproud, has announced that he is quitting politics altogether. The dude held on to his position against Colin Boyce out of spite it seems, he said he's been meaning to resign since the coalition was reformed. #auspol

Among other things about the perpetually awful Cory Bernardi we now find he is "offended by people eating too much McDonalds". Why is he "offended" by this? Does he fear that it will turn them gay? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Labor's HTV cards have just come out for the SA election, and there's something weird going on. Of the one's I've checked so far, they've put Sarah Game's Fair Go for Australia 4th in 3 seats, 3rd in Dunstan, and 2ND in Elizabeth. #saparli #auspol

We see this phenomenon online a lot, from politics to reviewing books (you like this book therefore you endorse a nasty character's behaviour), but it has cropped up in academia as long as I've been in it, i.e. some people, inc some academics, assume that if you study a thing, you like/endorse it

I've gone through the ECSA's official candidate list and have written up a spreadsheet showing every candidate at this SA state election and their ballot order. I need to go through and research them all, but hopefully this is useful! #saparli #auspol

Today's the day! Nominations are closed and candidates are officially about to be announced by the ECSA. I've already done like 40 new candidates today, and ik I can expect over 60 more to come out, so I'll be quite busy soon.... #saparli

Ex-Leader of the SA Liberal Party, David Speirs, has confirmed that he's running for the seat of Black at the upcoming election. Speirs is a convicted drug supplier and had claimed video evidence of him using cocaine was AI. Also, the Advertiser may have hit a banger of a title... #saparli

My official and formal reaction: aaaaaahahahahahaha Nice to know so many of the worst people are now having a bad day coping and seething

New Candidate Tracker update! 22 new candidates have been added, with 2 removed and a couple moved around. With this update, the Liberal party becomes the 2nd party to have announced candidates for every seat. anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-... #saparli #auspol

What elections are upcoming in March/April around the world? open.substack.com/pub/politics...

Teaching my first tutorials ever this week, got first years in a big old survey course. Excited but also quite anxious. I've worked with high schoolers before, but has anyone got advice for making history tutorials engaging? #history 🗃️ #skystorians

#EMRS Tas (state) Lib 29 ALP 23 Grn 15 IND 15 ON 14 others 4. ON is not registered yet but close to being registered. Will be interesting doing the seat estimate for this one ... give me a little time! #politas

This project will document one man’s quest to find, and photograph, all of Adelaide’s 89 railway stations. (1/5)

There's the legendary @sydneystations.bsky.social and now @every-adl-station.bsky.social. For some time I've been pondering doing #EveryPerthStation just to prompt me to see more of the network and this city I have lived in for four years (already that many?!). Feel like I really ought to do it

#FoxHedgehog ALP 30 L-NP 24 ON 25 Green 12 Ind/other 9 2PP (respondent prefs) 51 to ALP. My last-election estimate for these primaries 52.0 to ALP (-0.8) ALP vs ON 53 to ALP My last election estimate 52.6 (-2.2) drive.google.com/file/d/1HH88...

The Liberal party's strategy apparently rests upon... (checks notes)... the general public pitying them. That's the best the SA Libs have got. And mind you their wounds are self-inflicted, they've shot themselves in the foot and are going "oh won't anyone think of poor little old us". #saparli

Not one but two SA state polls today, here's #YouGov ALP 37 Lib 20 ON 22 Green 13 IND/other 8 ALP vs Lib 59-41 ALP vs ON 60-40 #saparli

it's a double poll night in South Australia. YouGov is reporting figures that are still diabolical for the Liberals (and great for One Nation), but less diabolical than Newspoll: Labor 37% One Nation 22% Liberal 20% Greens 13% Others 8% www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-a...

Doubt this will translate to One Nation lower house seats, Labor's swing will be far too strong, but this will almost certainly confirm 2 PHON seats in the upper house (if the polling is true) and with Liberal polling that low, there might be room for Independents/Minor Parties to sneak in #saparli

#Newspoll SA (state) ALP 44 Lib 14 ON 24 Green 12 Ind/other 6 #saparli

Had my PhD candidature confirmed today, its a big weight off my shoulders and something I'm very excited by. One small step towards getting my PhD, but its one step nonetheless!

Re-shared in an attempt to capture the southern hemisphere journal editors. 🤓

New Candidate update! I've added 5 Labor candidates (the last 5 in the state) as well as 2 Liberals, 9 One Nation candidates, 2 Fair Go Candidates, and 2 Independents. I've also removed AJP's Rita Kuhlmann. anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-... #saparli #auspol

Here’s something I’m curious about… Historians, do you put an explicit methodology section in your journal articles?

Party registration news: Ralph Babet has applied to centrally re-register the United Australia Party (the Palmer version not related to the historic Lyons/Menzies party) at federal level. As we are now in a new term the application will be accepted.