South Australian Labor Party

South Australian Labor South Australian Labor Party
Leader	Peter Malinauskas
Deputy Leader	Susan Close
President	Rhiannon Pearce
Secretary	Aemon Bourke[1]
Founded	7 January 1891; 133 years ago (1891-01-07)
Headquarters	141 Gilles Street, Adelaide, South Australia
Youth wing	South Australian Young Labor
Women's wing	Labor Women's Network
LGBT wing	Rainbow Labor
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	Australian Labor
Union affiliate	SA Unions
Colours	Red
House of Assembly	28 / 47
Legislative Council	9 / 22
Website
sa.alp.org.au
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The South Australian Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as South Australian Labor, is the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, originally formed in 1891 as the United Labor Party of South Australia. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division).

Since the 1970 election, marking the beginning of democratic proportional representation (one vote, one value) and ending decades of pro-rural electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, Labor have won 11 of the 15 elections. Spanning 16 years and 4 terms, Labor was last in government from the 2002 election until the 2018 election. Jay Weatherill led the Labor government since a 2011 leadership change from Mike Rann. During 2013 it became the longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history, and in addition went on to win a fourth four-year term at the 2014 election. After losing the 2018 election, the party spent 4 years in opposition before leader Peter Malinauskas led the party to a majority victory in the 2022 election.

Labor's most notable historic Premiers of South Australia include Thomas Price in the 1900s, Don Dunstan in the 1970s, John Bannon in the 1980s, and Mike Rann in the 2000s.