Liberals suffer the worst election defeat in South Australia history as Labor’s Peter Malinauskas surges to a second term

The South Australian Liberal Party has suffered the biggest election loss in the state’s history, collapsing in a landslide that has handed Premier Peter Malinauskas a commanding second term and rewritten the state’s political landscape. Voters delivered a brutal verdict on the opposition, stripping away once‑safe seats, fracturing the conservative base and leaving the party with just a handful of seats — its worst result on record.