Hello all! This is yet another tracker I have decided to put up to engage with SA's 2026 election. This one will look to track the candidates announced for every seat. Essentially, treat it as an expanded version of my spreadsheet, where I can give information about each candidate more specifically. The tracker will be updated as new candidates are announced or, more likely, I find ones that a party has seemingly forgotten to announce or put on their website (looking at you SA Liberals).
Adelaide
Lucy Hood (MP) | Labor
The current Member for Adelaide, Hood won the seat off Liberal Rachel Sanderson at the 2022 state election, receiving 40.6% of the primary vote for a 56.2% 2PP. Since then, she has been elevated to cabinet following the retirement (read: gangland execution) of Susan Close and Stephen Mullighan, becoming the Minister for Climate, Environment and Water. Prior to her time as an MP, Hood was the media, policy, and senior adviser to Jay Weatherill and political adviser to Peter Malinauskas as well as his director of policy. To say she has been groomed for success is perhaps an understatement, having served for both the current and former Labor Premiers. That's not to say Hood doesn't have her credentials; she was a journalist for The Advertiser after all.
Julian Amato | Liberal
Julian Amato's Liberal party bio tells you that he is a lawyer, community member, and Adelaidean. The first two are true, he is currently the special counsel for Wotton + Kearney and a Homeless legal volunteer solicitor for JusticeNet SA, and has previously been the President of the Australian Italian Leaders of Tomorrow SA branch as well as being a part of the North Adelaide Football Club, the Adelaide City Lions Club, the Prospect Abruzzo and Molise Club Committee. Whether he's truly Adelaidean is up in the air, he was born and educated here, but spent much of his career in New South Wales and Sydney until Covid hit. However, perhaps most interesting is what his Liberal bio does not tell you. Amato is the first openly gay major party candidate in an SA House of Assembly contest (Dunstan was not out and was married to Gretel/Adele during his run for parliament). Its something himself and other Liberal party members spruik on their socials, and something that can be seen through his LinkedIn, being a member of the SA Law Society's Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, but it is noticeably absent from the Liberal party's website.
One of the few trade unionists throughout the entire state election, Colmer is an Administration Assistant at the Communications, Electrical, Energy and Plumbing Union (CEPU).
Aoi Baxter | One Nation
Baxter is the Creative Director and Lead Strategist at, wait for it, Aoi Studio, a work place he established back in January 2025. Apparently its a "hospitality partner powerhouse" with 0 digital presence.
Keiran Snape | Independent
The good half of the same Adelaide City Councillor that Henry Davis also split from, Snape is currently an Adelaide City Councillor and an ex-Greens member who left when Tammy Franks did. Beyond being an admittedly 'high-profile' and 'active' Councillor, he is a Parliamentary Assistant and someone whom I see on North Terrace far too often.
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Badcoe
Jayne Stinson (MP) | Labor
The Member for Badcoe since 2018, Stinson was immediately put onto the frontbench under the portfolios of Child Protection and Arts, before being given Planning and Development as well as Multicultural Affairs. Prior to her time as a politician, she was a broadcast journalist for half of the broadcast news agencies in the country, the ABC, Ten, and Channel 7, and has also worked as a political adviser to both the Rudd and Gillard governments. Shes like Lucy Hood's pokemon evolution.
Amar Singh | Liberal
A Councillor for Mullawirra Ward in the City of Marion, Singh is the owner of the Flavours on Wheels food truck often found on Marion Road.
Josh Andersen-Ward | Greens
Andersen-Ward's not got any electoral experience to speak of, but he does have some significant credentials to back him up. He's been a corporate lawyer for SA Water, a Paralegal for RSA Law, a Complaints Officer for the Commonwealth Ombudsman, a Facilities Support Officer for CSIRO, and is currently studying his Masters in Accounting and Finance. Not your usual Greens type.
Black
Alex Dighton (MP) | Labor
The Member for Black, Dighton won the seat at the 2024 by-eleection which followed David Speirs resignation due to drug charges (aka supplying cocaine while also being recorded doing it and claiming it was AI). Dighton had previously attempted to win the seat off Speirs back at the 2022 state election but had failed. Before politics, Dighton was the Deputy Principal at Sacred Heart College.
Luscombe is probably best known as being the Green's candidate at the 2024 by-election for Black when David Speirs resigned from the seat. At that election, she won 13.1% of the vote, up by 1.3% from Liz Tidemann's result in 2022. She is also another local politician entering the 2025 election, being a councillor for the Coastal Ward of the City of Marion. She is also a clinical psychologist, working primarily with children.
Bragg
Rick Sarre | Labor
Sarre has previously contested Bragg at the 2018 and 2022 state elections (though not at the 2022 Bragg by-election). At the 2018 election, he received 23.9% of the primary vote and ended on 32.6% 2PP against Vickie Chapman, while at the 2022 election, he won 28.6% of the primary vote and ended on a 41.8% 2PP, also against Chapman. He also ran for Labor in the seat of Sturt at the 2010 and 2013 federal elections, receiving 36.2% of the primary vote and 46.57% of the 2PP in 2010 against Christopher Pyne and 28.9% of the primary vote and 39.9% of the 2PP in 2013, also against Pyne.
Beyond his electoral performance, Sarre is known for having been a long-standing law professor at the University of South Australia (teaching there for 35 years), as well as being the dean of UniSA's law school. He is a board member of the Community of Christ Ltd, and has also worked with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Hong Kong. Finally, Sarre is a past president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and an honorary professorial fellow of the Australian Institute of Police Management.
Jack Batty (MP) | Liberal
The Member of Bragg since the 2022 by-election, Batty was previously a staff to Christopher Pyne, a lawyer, and an aide to the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom George Brandis.
Ditter does not have much on her in regards to her current life in South Australia. Annoying, I know. However, her past does shed some light on her. She was a board member for the Pride Foundation Australia in Tasmania, the Executive Officer of Working It Out, and the chair of the board for the National LGBTI Health Alliance. All of this is to say that she is, obviously, an LGBTQI+ ally and advocate (as can be seen by her parlimanetary submissions on multiple issues). She is also the granddaughter of Otto Kurt Ditter, founder of Ditters Nuts which can be found in the Adelaide Arcade.
Chaffey
Tim Whetstone (MP) | Liberal
The Member for Chaffey and soon to be leader of the Sovereign Republic of Chaffey, Whetstone has held the seat since 2010, having taken it off good old SA National Karlene Maywald with a 20% swing. He has been the Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development in the Marshall government, a position he lost due to a parliamentary allowances scandal, having wrongly claimed travel expenses on over 90 occasions. This is not the only time he lost a position due to infractions, being appointed Shadow Minister of Road Safety amongst a slew of other positions in 2022 only to lost it the next year after losing his license. This hasn't stopped him from being Shadow Minister elsewhere since, such as for social services or industry, but one suspects he might find it hard to cause a scandal in these positions.
Prior to becoming an MP, Whetstone was a muscle car and speedboat restorer, a gas field project manager, a citrus farm and vineyard owner in the Riverland, and was part of the Australian team that won the Bridge to Bridge water ski race sometime in the 1990s. Could you get more country?
Jenny Troeth | One Nation
A retiree, Troeth has previously stood for One Nation as their candidate for Barker at the 2025 federal election, receiving 8.2% of the vote. She is also the founder of the Renmark Paringa Houseboat Collective.
Jeff Knipe | Legalise Cannabis
Knipe's story is quite similar to many other Legalise Cannabis candidates. He had two bouts of cancer which left him in significant pain which was only treatable through the use of Cannabis. Beyond this, Knipe is perhaps wild for the way in which he has been a candidate prior for the party. He ran for Legalise Cannabis at the 2022 Victorian Election as their 2nd upper house candidate and at the 2024 Queensland state election in the Seat of Hervey Bay, polling at 7% there. This will be his third time running for the party in just as many states.
Cheltenham
Joe Szakacs (MP) | Labor
The Member for Cheltenham since the 2019 by-election replacing Jay Weatherill, he has been the minister for Police, Emergency Services, and Correnctional Services, Trade and Investment, Industry, Innovation and Science, Local Government, and Veterans Affairs. Prior to politics, Szakacs was a volunteer lawyer at the Young Workers Legal Service, an industrict officer with both the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union and United Firefighters Union SA, and state secretary of SA Unions. He was also a competitive swimmer, being part of the Australian team at the 2002-2003 FINA swimming World Cup.
Steffi Medrow | Greens
A production manager at a signage company, Medrow has contested Cheltenham in multiple elections for the Greens previously. This includes the 2018 state election, where she received 6.3% of the vote, the 2019 by-election, where she won 14.6% of the vote, and the 2022 state election, where she received 10.9% of the vote.
Melissa Higgins | One Nation
Higgins is an ex-nurse who now works in general practice due to refusing to get a Covid-19 vaccination.
Colton
Aria Bolkus | Labor
Another lawyer, Bolkus has worked as a law clerk and solicitor for Andersons Solicitors and a solifictor and associate for HWL Ebsworth Lawyers prior to entering politics. In 2024, she became an advisor for Mark Butler before entering state politics properly.
Bec Sutton | Liberal
Sutton has worked a bunch more jobs than most candidates. Starting as a team leader for Suncorp in 2008, she moved on to OAMPS Insurance Brokers in 2012 before becoming Operations Manager for The Kingdom Advertising in 2013. She was only there for a year before becoming the Media Account Manager for Carat Australia from 2014-2018, to which she joined the University of Adelaide as the Marketing Manager for the Faculty of Professions. More recently, she was the Project Support Officer for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Principal Project Officer for SA Health.
Matthew Wright | Greens
Wright was the Greens candidate for Hindmarsh at the 2025 federal election, polling 13.6%.
Rocco DeAngelis | One Nation
Owner of Findon Road's Rocco's Pizza (whose pizzas are, now unfortunately, decent), DeAngelis has previously run for One Nation at the 2025 federal election, winning 5% of votes in Hindmarsh.
Croydon
Peter Malinauskas (MP) | Labor
Its the Premier, there's both too much to say and also little that hasn't been said by anyone else. Originally Secretary of the SDA (read: SDA goon), Malinauskas became a member through filling a casual vacancy in 2015, and became opposition leader in 2018 when he won the seat of Croydon. Once known as the "faceless man" who delivered the message to Mike Rann, it is safe to say that every South Australian knows his face (and his abs).
Ahmed Azhar | SA Socialists
Though he's known to the local news as the 'Palestine Protestor who got arrested that one time', Azhar was not convicted of anything despite pleading guilty to the charges, though he is indeed a protestor for Palestine and an organiser of many other protests. Outside of politics, he is a Software Engineer for OptiGrid, having been a software developer for HARD Software prior.
Davenport
Erin Thompson (MP) | Labor
Member for Davenport since 2022, she has been on multiple committees but has not been a Minister. Beforehand, she was the Mayor of the City of Onkaparinga, having won it in 2018, taking home nearly 25% of the primary votes in a field of 5 candidates. Interestingly, she worked for Unley mayor Lachlan Clyne in his attempt to win the seat of Badcoe at the 2018 state election.
Trent Burnard | Liberal
One of the few veterans running in this election, Burnard was an army soldier and officer in the Australian army from 1990 to 2025, serving on the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda as well as deploying to East Timor. He reached the position of Colonel by 2021 and was Commander of SA's Cadets for a year before his time with the army ended. Beyond this, Burnard has served as a Security Risk Manager, Leadership Coach (time to do pushups on the beach while a man yells at you), Drone Pilot for his own Drone Business, and a security consultant/advisor for too many places.
John Photakis | Greens
I tried finding anything about Photakis and theres just nothing. What little I can find is from him essentially is that he's a 'stupol hack' (having been in student council at Flinders Uni and student voice at TAFE SA), and is a perennial candidate. He contested Kingston at the 2025 federal election for the Greens, getting 13.5% of the vote (up 1% from 2022), Kingston at the 2022 federal election for the Greens, getting 12.4% of the vote (up 3.2% from 2019), and Davenport in the 2022 state election for the Greens, getting 9.4% of the vote (up 2.2%). His candidancy for the Greens actually goes all the way back to the 2018 state election (also for Davenport), and he was a council candidate for the Thalassa Ward of the City of Onkaparinga in 2022.
Dunstan
Cressida O'Hanlon (MP) | Labor
The Member for Dunstan who won the seat at the 2024 by-election (notably becoming the first SA-government-backed candidate to win a seat off the opposition at a by-election). Prior to this, she ran in the 2019 Federal Election against James Stevens for Sturt, but lost. Other than politics, she was a corporate mediator as well as the staff member for MLC Reggie Martin.
Anna Finizio | Liberal
One of the few PhD/Drs of this election, Finizio has ran a gauntlet of jobs prior to her candidancy. Fress from her PhD, she was a Policy Lawyer for the Law Society of SA before becoming a ministerial advisor initially for the Minister for Police, Corrections and Emergency Services (at the time Vincent Tarzia) before moving on to be an adviser to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing Stephen Wade. She would than move on to his office properly in 2022, after which she would take a stint consultancy as a manager for PWC and Inside Policy. Finally, she has most recently been the Director of Policy for Vincent Tarzia and the Associate Director of Equality Partners. A strong resume, but one quite obviously tied to the rise and fall of Tarzia.
Christel Mex | Greens
A councillor for Norwood Payneham & St Peters for the last 11 years and counting, Mex was also a past president of Community Alliance SA, the Chair of Volunteering Strategy of South Australia, and is currently a committee member of the Adelaide Park Lands Association.
Chris McDermott | Fair Go For Australia
The first Crows captain, McDermott is an OAM and is the founder of the Little Heroes Foundation. McDermott started his career playing for Glenelg in 1991, despite being drafted twice to the VFL. After his football career, he coached North Adelaide for 3 years and was a radio host for 6 months in 2014 for FiveAA.
Elder
Nadia Clancy (MP) | Labor
The Member for Elder since 2022, Clancy is currently the assistant minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. Prior to 2022, she was Labor's candidate for Boothby at the 2019 Federal election (losing to Nicolle Flint), and has held a variety of roles for Women's Safety Services SA, the Fred Hollows Foundation, and Headspace. She was also a staffer and adviser for Kevin Rudd, Katy Gallagher, and Mark Butler.
Shawn van Groeesn | Liberal
Let no one say that engineers couldn't try to be politicians. Van Groeesn has held a variety of roles at perhaps every single big defence company you can think of. He was a Systems Engineer for BAE Systems and Saab Systems, is a project manager for Lockheed Martin and the Principal Engineering Assurance at ASC.
Stef Rozitis | Greens
Rozitis has a long resume of teaching going on for over a decade. She's been a school teacher, a preschool teacher, and a tutor at all three major universities. She is also a member of the 'Woke Lesbo Symposium', "a collective of writers from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia of diverse backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations whose members produce creative work and scholarship within a social justice framework." Finally, she's a previous candidate of the Greens, having ran for the seat of Badcoe at the 2018 state election, getting 7.9% of the vote.
Matt Mangelsdorf | One Nation
Host of the Men Like Us podcast and army veteran, Mangesldorf has won multiple awards such as an Australia Day Award.
Elizabeth
Shaw, previously Labor's campaign manager for SA/NT, was named by The Advertiser as one of SA Labor's future leaders alongside the likes of Olivia Savvas, MP for Newlands (and about 3 people I personally know aha). Prior to this though, she was notable for a whole different incident. Back in 2021, she and Ashley Jayasuriya were removed as Board of Directors from the Adelaide University Union (now YouX). The two, who were part of Unity (Labor Right) and Activate (Labor Left) respectively, had "refused to sign declarations swearing they did not leak in-camera information to On Dit" (in-camera information being information discussed at a session that cannot be discussed publicly) and so were removed from the Progress (Liberal) dominated board.
David Deex | Greens
Deex ran for the seat of Spence in the 2022 federal election, winning 11.3% of the vote (up 4.14%). He is also a member of the Anti-Poverty Network. Perhaps most notable about them is that they were the Youth Governor for the 2024 South Australian Youth Parliament. Deex's speech as Youth Governor included a quote from the Village People, so, there's some good taste there at least.
Kym Hanton | One Nation
God, what is there to say about Hanton. The postie with the mostie, Hanton has failed at two previous elections, running for the Australian Federation Party in 2022 and as an independent candidate for Spence in 2025. He was also accused, though acquitted, of punching a prisoner in the face while taking their mugshot back when he was a cop in 2018. If you're interested, he makes multiple politics videos a week currently which, beyond swearing profusely and offering little insight into SA politics, are a weird look into his mind. Finally, and perhaps most relevant for this election, Hanton seemed to be poised to run with United Voice Australia/Mark Aldridge, however something that I have no information on occurred and so he ditched the party (while also telling others to do the same).
Enfield
Lawrence Ben | Labor
Ben is the current Principal Economic Adviser to Premier Peter Malinauskas. Prior to this job, he was a lawyer for Johnston Withers Lawyers, the acting Political Director for RWDSU International Union in New York, and a Training and Campaigns Coordinator/Union Organiser in the SDA.
Leila Clendon | SA Socialists
A teacher, Clendon has also been a speaker at recent socialist events, most recently being one of SA Socialists' speakers at the Rally for Abortion Rights two weeks ago, which opposed Sarah Game's anti-abortion bill. Clendon is also somebody whose been featured in stupol. Running as a candidate for Left Action in 2024, Clendon was amongst the Left Action candidates disqualified in a controversial decision due to campaigning in a Victorian Socialists shirt. The whole saga was an interesting experience to live through (as a student of the university during it), and it essentially saw Left Action candidates disqualified for an issue that they had already received a one-day campaigning ban for, with the disqualification coming only after the campaigning ban was challenged by other candidates. In the end, the election for president had to be redone, as El Hall (Left Action) and Georgia Thomas (Unite), the first and second place finishers for the spot, were both disqualified.
Finniss
David Basham (MP) | Liberal
The Member for Finniss since 2018, he was the Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development in Steven Marshall's government. Prior to this, he was the President of the Australian Dairy Farmers and the SA Dairyfarmers' Association, and was a Dairyfarmer for 28 years.
Greg Powell | One Nation
A retiree, Powell was a wine producer prior to retirement.
Lou Nicholson | Independent
The independent who was only 300 votes from beating Basham at the 2022 state election, Nicholson is running again. Previously an occupational therapist, she chose to be a candidate back in 2022 due to the "no jab, no play" laws, though she states that she is not an anti-vaxxer and that she only wanted the laws to exclude kindergartens.
Bronwyn Lewis | Independent
A former Councillor for Alexandrina who was given code of conduct charges and had her social media monitored due to her 'airing of grievances' regarding the council back in 2022.
Flinders
Sam Tefler (MP) | Liberal
The Member for Flinders since 2022, he was the Mayor for the District Council of Tumby Bay between 2014-2022. He was also the President of the Eyre Peninsula Local Government Association as well as the President of the Local Government Association of SA.
Brenton Hicks | One Nation
An accountant for 15 years, as well as the treasurer of the Port Lincoln Scout Group and a regular volunteer for Navigator College.
Thomas McNab | SA-Best
McNab is the director of McNab Fisheries Pty Ltd, and has been the president of the Abalone Industry of South Australia. In addition, he has served on the boards of the Abalone Council Australia and the Seafood Industry South Australia, as well as being the founder of Sheds for Eyre. Finally, McNab was also on the Site selection committee for the Eyre Peninsula Desalination plant.
Dylan Cowley | Nationals
A Councillor for the City of Port Lincoln, Cowley works at West Coast Youth.
Florey
Michael Brown (MP) | Labor
The Member for Florey since 2022 (having previously represented Playford between 2018-2022), Brown is currently the Parliamentary Secretary for the Premier as well as the assistant minister for AI, Digital Economy, Defence and Space Industries. Prior to politics, he was an adviser and Chief of Staff to Jay Weatherill, Chief Executive at Griffins Lawyers, and the State Secretary for the Labor Party for 6 years between 2005-2011.
Denise George | Liberal
Alexandra McGee | Greens
McGee been a tutor/manager for the International College of Hospitality and Management, the University of Adelaide, and TAFE SA. She's also been an assessor for foundational English at two colleges and the academic team leader at a military technological college, all in Oman, as well as Head of Oman's Dental College and Project Manager for the British Council in Oman. Finally, she's also been an english teacher in Korea and Japan as well. Add on her volunteering experiences with Girl Guides SA and Backpacks for Kids, and she seems to have a veritable wealth of world experience, at the very least. Honestly, where do people find the time?
Riley Size | One Nation
Size has previously ran for One Nation at the 2025 Federal Election for the seat of Adelaide, winning 4% of the vote while having no bio or picture that I can find.
Gibson
Sarah Andrews (MP) | Labor
The Member for Gibson since 2022, she was previously the Director for WA and SA for Professionals Australia.
Jane Fleming | Liberal
Fleming is currently a councillor for the Brighton Ward of the City of Holdfast Pay, and was Deputy Mayor between 2024-2025. She is also the owner of Bijou Spa.
Zoran Ananijev | One Nation
His bio claims that he "lives in a long-term relationship with his partner" and "is the proud father of two adult children" in a way that suggests he is not actually a real person. Beyond this, he was a Project Manager at Equifax, Flexigroup, Yellow Brick Road, Genworth Australia, the NSW Department of Finance, Services, and Innovation, Healthdirect Australia, the Commonwealth Bank, Gen-I, the Commonwealth Bank again, Telstra, and Powerlan, with the jobs between the Commonwealth Bank and Yellow Brick Road all happening within a 2 year period between 2015-2017. Currently, he has been looking for work for 3 years.
Bin (Alyssa) Liu | Animal Justice Party
An acupuncturist who has run her own clinic, Acupuncture Adelaide, since 2011, Liu has previously ran for the Animal Justice Party at the 2016 Federal Election in Hindmarsh and the 2025 Federal Election in Kingston, where she received 1.49% and 1.8% of the vote respectively.
Giles
Eddie Hughes (MP) | Labor
The Member for Giles since 2014, he was also a councillor for the Whyalla City Council prior.
Sunny Singh | Liberal
A Councillor for the Port Augusta City Council since 2018, Singh owns/operates 23 taxis across Port Augusta as well as 6 more throughout the 'Copper Triangle'.
Barry Drage | One Nation
A former SES volunteer and a Whyalla Steelworker, Drage ran for One Nation back at the 2022 State Election in the seat of Giles, winning 6.4%.
Hammond
Simone Bailey | Labor
The current Mayor of the Mid-Murray region, Bailey has been an auditor, financial investigator, and an accountant, and is a board member for an aged care association and Country Arts SA.
Adrian Pederick (MP) | Liberal
The Member for Hammond since 2006, he previously managed his family's dryland and grazing property at Coomandook.
Robert Roylance | One Nation
Founder of the Roylancer Distllery Co., Roylance is also a ferry operator in Mannum.
Ruby Eckermann | Animal Justice Party
Eckermann is a podiatrist and the current Chair of the Murraylands Animal Welfare Watch.
Airlie Keen | Independent
A councillor for Murray Bridge, having also been Deputy Mayor of the Council, Keen previously ran for Hammond in 2022 and won 15.7% of the vote. She was/is also the office manager for Dan Cregan, the retiring MP for Kavel, having held the position since 2018.
Lucas Hope | Independent
Hope is a current truck driver and a former youth worker and corrections officer.
Hartley
Jenn Roberts | Labor
Roberts is an American expat from Texas, having worked in civil rights/personal lalw in the US. Nowadays, she is the practice manager of Lieschke & Weatherill. That is the law firm founded by Jay Weatherill, the Labor ex-Premier, and a firm which focuses on workers/unions.
Vincent Tarzia (MP) | Liberal
Ex-opposition leader, Tariza has held the seat of Hartley since 2014 and was poised to lead the Liberal Party into the election prior to his entirely voluntary resignation from the position in late 2025. A survivor who has managed to ward off challenges such as Nick Xenophon and Grace Portolesi in an election which saw a swing away from the Liberals, Tarzia has been Speaker of the house and prior to being a politician, was a solicitor.
Melanie Searle | Greens
NO INFORMATION FOUND
Heysen
Marisa Bell | Labor
A councillor for the city of Onkaparinga and an intensive care nurse, Bell is a multi-time candidate for Labor. She has previously ran for the party in the seat of Mayo at both the 2022 and 2025 federal elections, winning 18.1% and 21.4% of the vote respectively.
Josh Teague (MP) | Liberal
The Member for Heysen since 2018, Teague is the current Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and the son of former senator Baden Teague. He has been the Minister of Planning and Local Government, as well as the Speaker of the House.
Genevieve Dawson-Scott | Greens
A painter and marriage celebrant, Dawson-Scott has contested the seat of Mayo for the Greens at the 2025 federal election, where she received 13.6% of the vote. She has also been the museum manager for the Museum of Play and Art, as well as the Community Centre Coordinator for Goodwood Community Services.
Sarita Stratton | One Nation
NO INFORMATION FOUND
Gregory Davis | Animal Justice Party
Davis is a horticulturist and industrial designer, and is a Trees for Life bush care volunteer.
Hurtle Vale
The Member for Hurtle Vale since it was created in 2018 (and the member for Fisher from 2014-2018), Cook is the current minister for Human Services and for Seniors and Aging Well. Prior to politics, she was a Registered Nurse for 30 years and was an Associate Professor for the school of nursing and midwifery at the University of South Australia.
Katrina Emmerson | One Nation
Emmerson has worked as a service coordinator and throughout the hospitality industry.
Kaurna
Chris Picton (MP) | Labor
The Member for Kaurna since 2014, Picton is the current Minister for Health and Wellbeing. He has also served as the Minister for Police, Correctional Services, Emergency Services, and Road Safety. Prior to politics, he was the Associate Director for Deloitte Access Economics as well as the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the SA's Minister of Health and the Minister of Health/Attorney-General in Canberra.
Sean Weatherly | Greens
Weatherly is a previous candidate, having ran for the Greens in Kaurna in the 2022 state election, winning 10.8% of the vote (up 1.7%). He's been a council candidate before for the city of Onkaparinga and is a member of the Anti-Poverty Network. All of this though pales into what actually makes me interested in him, in that he is a genuine stage performer. Now, he does say he is also a film and TV performer on his website, but his IMDB suggests he has been, at best, an extra with a couple of lines. However, he has his own stage production company, Loaded Productions, which has performed at various Fringe festivals and has the ongoing musical "Price Check! The Supermarket Musical". This musical is described as "The world's first post-COVID-19 musical, set in a suburban supermarket the year after the pandemic" and all its messaging seems very socially conscious, but I'd be interested to watch it. Finally, and perhaps most notable to me (and I want to state I am not making any fun here, I am just genuinely interested), Weatherly has, for the last 15 years, performed as Noodles the Clown. This, and his alternate persona Pirate Sean, mean that it is highly likely many South Australians who are voting for the first time this election may have had Weatherly at their childhood birthdays, which I think is an incredibly interesting concept. I've linked the photos down below mainly because I'm interested to see if anyone who stumbles across this blog has any experience with Noodles.
Sean as Pirate Sean
Sean as Noodles the Clown
Zoe Jones | One Nation
Jones runs a haulage company specialising in agricultural grain cartage and owns/operatres a teen girls' boutique.
Kavel
David Leach | Labor
Leach has been the Mayor for Mount Barker since 2022, having defeated 4-term Mayor Ann Ferguson at that year's local election with 55.5% of the vote. Prior, Leach was a District Councillor for Mount Barker since 2018 and worked for the Electoral Commission.
A councillor for the Mount Barker District Council since 2018, Orr has served as the director of the Hills Football League as well as the Hills Area Health Advisory Council. He is also an electrician.
Christiaan Loch | One Nation
Loch works at Equals International as an instructor.
Padma Chaplin | Animal Justice Party
Chaplin is an artist and songwriter who volunteers at a sanctuary for farmed animals and ex-racehorses. She was AJP's candidate for Mayo at the 2022 Federal Election, where she recieved 1.7% of the vote.
Matt Schultz | Independent
Schultz is the president of the Mt Barker Football Club and is the Director of International Recruitment at Flinders University.
King
Rhiannon Pearce (MP) | Labor
The Member for King since 2022, Pearce is also the Minister for Emergency Services and Correctional Facilities as well as for Recreation, Sport and Racing. Prior to politics, Pearce was Malinauskas' community engagement advisor.
Amanda Hendry | Liberal
A former naval engineer, Hendry has worked on farms and in banking and finance.
David Kerrison | One Nation
Kerrison is a Councillor for the City of Playford's 3rd Ward.
Lee
David Wilkins | Labor
Wilkins has worked a variety of state government roles, starting as a Ministerial Adviser to Kate Ellis in 2009 before transitioning to the Department of Premier and Cabinet from 2013 to 2020, including being the Office Manager for the Member for Lee. After this, he was a Senior Project Officer for Lighthouse Disability, the Manager of Governance and Strategy for Cara Inc, and the Director of Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. These days, he has been a councillor for the Semaphore Ward of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield since 2018 and is the Chief of Staff to Chris Picton.
Merlindie Fardone | Liberal
Initially a Recruitment Officer and Consultant for SYC Ltd and Adecco Australia, Fardone was the owner of Daily Style Boutique between 2014-2023. Currently a councillor for the City of Charles Sturt's Henley Ward, she has worked for the City of Port Adelaide Enfield since 2007, in a variety of roles such as Property Services Officer and Reinstatements Officer.
Fabio Sturm | One Nation
A retiree of 17 years, Sturm worked for 40 years in the banking industry. He was also a Justice of the Peace for 35 years.
Light
James Agness | Labor
Starting as a Legal Adviser for Adelaide Legal Outreach Service and a Law Cleark for Norman Waterhouse, Agness has been an advisor for politicians for 10 years. At first an Electorate Officer for Tony Piccolo MP for Light in 2010, he worked under Piccolo until 2016, when he transitioned to be an Adviser for Malinauskas in his role as Minister for Police and Correctional Services and later Minister for Health. He has since been the Adviser to Malinauskas when he was oppisition leader, and was the Chief of Staff to the Minister for Trade and Investment.
Alex Banks | One Nation
Alex Banks previously ran for the Australian Family Party in the seat of King at the 2022 state election, Perving 3.6% of the vote.
Mackillop
Mark Braes | Labor
The former Mayor of the Wattle Range Council between 2006 and 2010 (having been a Councilor from 1999 until 2010), Braes has been the chairman of the Regional Development Australia Limestone Coast along with the South East Natural Resources Management Board, Millicent community radio station 5THE FM and the Millicent Business Community Association. He also ran for Labor in Mackillop at the 2022 state election, polling 20% at the primary vote level and 27.4% at the two party preferred.
Rebekah Rosser | Liberal
Rosser, a lawyer, has worked with Cricket SA and Cricket Australia, and was at one point a ministerial advisor for Rob Kerin. She has also worked in John Howard's Liberal Party as a clerk for the whip.
Jonathan Pietzsch | Nationals
Pietzsch is the State President of the SA Nationals, having held the role since 2016. He is also the Deputy Mayor of Coorong District Council, having been a Councillor since 2022. Previously, he was Federal Vice-President of the Nationals from 2022-2025 and the General Manager of Lake Ellen Pastoral. Pietzsch also ran for the Nationals at the 2025 Federal Election for the seat of Barker, winning 1.7% of the vote, at the 2022 Federal Election, also for Barker, winning 2.4% of the vote, and at the 2022 State Election for the seat of MacKillop, receiving 4.7% of the vote.
Nick McBride (MP) | Independent
Its uh, Nick McBride. He's been charged with 4 counts of various types of assault againt his wife, as well as breaching his bail order. I could talk about his political or professional past, but since the man is in home detention at this current moment, I don't feel particularly inclined to.
The office manager of the Mawson Electorate Office, Mitton has previously worked as the General Manager of Willunga Farmer's Market and as the Event Secretary of the Harvest Festival McLaren Vale Association. She has also served on the governing councils of Madge Sexton Kindergarten, McLaren Vale Primary School and Willunga High School.
Tyler Green | One Nation
Green has run the gauntlet of minor parties recently. In 2022, he ran for Legalise Cannabis as their 3rd Legislative Council candidate, winning only 432 votes. Then, at the 2025 Federal Election, he ran as the 1st candidate for the Libertarians in the Senate, getting just under 12,000 votes or 1%.
Morialta
Matthew Marozzi | Labor
Marozzi is a part of the Marche Club and plays football as part of the CBC Old Collegians. He is the senior adviser to Zoe Bettison and is close friends with Vincent Tarzia.
Scott Kennedy | Liberal
A consultant for Expose: Data Exposed, Kennedy was previously a Strategy Adviser to Steven Marshall's Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Director of Field Operations for the SA Liberals. Since 2009, he has also been a volunteer brigade lieutenant for the SA CFS.
Jenn Tranter | Greens
A teacher and educational counsellor for 30+ years, Tranter has been an executive member of the Morialta Residents' Association for 20 years as well. In September of this year, she ran for Councillor for Ranges Ward for the Adelaide Hills Council, winning 10.3% of the votes at the supplementary election.
Morphett
Toby Priest | Labor
Priest has worked in both the academic and education spaces. He was an Academic Teacher for both the University of South Australia and Flinders University and is a teacher at St Thomas School and supervisor at Immanuel College. He also recently found himself in hot water over decade-old posts about invasion day,
deleting them only a week ago.
Stephen Patterson (MP) | Liberal
The Member for Morphett since 2018, Patterson was the Minister for Trade and Investment from 2020-2022. Prior he was a councillor for the City of Holdfast Bay, being Mayor for the city between 2014-2018. Outside of politics, he played in the SANFL for Norwood and in the AFL for Collingwood, playing 96 games between 1995-2000 and scoring 88 goals.
Isabella Litt | Greens
Isabella Litt is, in her own words, "a certified yoga teacher, meditation enthusiast, intuitive tarot reader, and facilitator of women's circles". She is qualified in Vinyasa, Yin, and Tibetan (Mastery of) Yoga, as well as being a counsellor, and a Usui Reiki Master.
Mount Gambier
Matthew Key | Labor
Key has been everything from a Store Manager at Game Retail to a Station Manager for Dusty Radio, a Chairperson for the Cooper Peedy drive-in cinema (with multiple ABC articles about him), and more. But more recently, he's focused on teaching. He was a teacher at the Cooper Pedy Area School before becoming Deputy Principal at the Mulga St Primary School and is now the Education Co-ordinator (Arts, Tech, and ICT) for the Mount Gambier High School. More importantly for his electoral experience, he is the secretary of the South Australian Philosophy in Education Association, and a Branch Executive for the Australian Education Union. Finally, according to The SE Voice, he is the president of the Mount Gambier Theatre Group, and failed to win the position of AEU SA president back in 2023.
Lamorna Alexander | Liberal
Alexander, a lawyer, is someone who has worked on governance and regional politics across the Limestone Coast, having been part of Regional Assessment panels over the last two years.
Anne-Marie Loef | One Nation
Loef is an investment office manager and mental health counsellor.
James Thomson | Animal Justice Party
Thomson is a semi-retired English teacher.
Travis Fatchen | Independent
Fatchen is a life member of the Mt Gambier Patriots and a member of a few other local organisations. Secondly, he has been the office manager for Troy Bell since 2014. Now, that second is a major piece of information. He was likely in Bell's inner circle throughout his time as an MP, and so has probably collected much of his connections and network. So on that side, its a plus. However, on the other side, Bell was literally convicted for fraud and theft, and Fatchen was there the entire time. This isn't to say that Fatchen knew of the crimes, though of course I am sure people will speculate as such, but even if he didn't he's marked by that reputation.
Cody Scholes | Independent
Scholes is an ex-paramedic who initially ran for One Nation in the seat of Barker at the 2025 election, but left the party over One Nation's 'failure' to vote against hate speech laws, instead standing as an independent and getting 2.7% of the vote.
Narungga
Stock has been a councillor for the Yorke Peninsula Council since 2014, and was its Deputy Mayor for 4 years. She has previously worked in the banking corporate sector and in education.
Chantelle Thomas | One Nation
NO INFORMATION FOUND
Fraser Ellis (MP) | Independent
The Member for Narungga since 2018, Ellis was initially a member of the Liberal Party until 2021, when he was suspended due to charges from the ICAC in relations to travel allowances. After a period of 3 years, Ellis was found guilty of four counts of deception of his misuse of allowances.
Newland
Olivia Savvas (MP) | Labor
The Member for Newland since 2022, Savvas was a Councillor for the City of Tea Tree Gully's Balmoral Ward from 2018-2022. Prior to that, she was a union official for the SDA, an electorate officer for Labor in the seat of Wakefield, and a Financial Crime Analyst for Westpac.
Sarai Birch | Liberal
Birch has previously worked for the Department of Child Protection for over a decade.
Alison Dew-Fennell | One Nation
Dew-Fennell has previously ran for One Nation in the seat of Makin at the 2025 federal election, receiving 6.7% of the votes for the seat.
Ngadjuri
Tony Piccolo | Labor
Piccolo is the current member for Light, having held the seat since 2006 and changing to Ngadjuri with the recent redistribution of the seat and Light. He is currently the Deputy Speaker, a position he also held in 2011-2013, and has been the Minister for Disabilities. Prior to politics, he was a councillor for the District Council of Munno Para from 1981-1985, and a councillor for the Town of Gawler from 1985-2006, including being the town's Mayor from 2000-2006.
Penny Pratt (MP) | Liberal
The current Member for Ngadjuri, Pratt has represented the seat since 2022. Prior to this, she stood for Ashton in 2010 and Cheltenham in 2018, both times for the Liberal party, and prior worked as a staffer to Steven Marshall and chief of staff to Rachel Sanderson.
David Paton | One Nation
Paton is a councillor and the Deputy Mayor of the Adelaide Plains Council.
Cherie Steele | Animal Justice Party
Steele works for Yoga & Meditation Kapunda.
Playford
John Fulbrook (MP) | Labor
The Member for Playford since 2022, Fulbrook was an advisor to both the Weatherill SA government and the Northern Territory government prior.
Nicholas Tsentidis | One Nation
Tsentidis has worked in retail stocking shelves and serving customers as well as security at shopping centres.
Port Adelaide
Cheyne Rich | Labor
Rich is Peter Malinauskas' Deputy Chief of Staff, and was his campaign director/caucus liaison prior. He has also worked as a political organiser for United Voice and an electorate assistant to both Tony Piccolo and the Hartley electorate.
Scott Anderson | Liberal
The venue manager for Milledge's Distillery in Port Adelaide, Anderson was president of the Rotary Club of West Lakes from 2024-2025 and has been the president of the Liberal Party's Hindmarsh FEC and Port Adelaide FEC. He has also been a part of their state policy committee and membership committee.
Hayden Shaw | Greens
Shaw is an Army vet, a small business owner, a financial professional, and a volunteer for sporting organisations.
Joel Hendrie | One Nation
Joel Hendrie has been a truckdriver and lifeline crisis supporter.
He is (or atleast was) a member/supporter of the far-right extremist group, the True Blue Crew.
Anne McMenamin | Independent (Socialist Alliance)
McMenamin, Socialist Alliance's endorsed candidate, has been a political activist throughout her life, including being a campaigner against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and more recently has been a campaigner against the AUKUS alliance and nuclear submarines.
Claire Boan | Independent
Boan is the Mayor of Port Adelaide Enfield, and has served as a councillor since 2010. She is a board member of the Local Government Association of SA, and was a board member of Green Adelaide. She was previously a teacher for 13 years.
Ramsay
Zoe Bettison (MP) | Labor
The Member for Ramsay since the 2012 by-election, Bettison is the Minister for Tourism and for Multicultural Affairs. Prior, she worked for Great Southern Rail, was a union official for the SDA, and a director of Hawker Britton.
Ralph Chambers | One Nation
Chambers is a self-employed builder.
Reynell
Katrine Hildyard (MP) | Labor
The Member for Reynell since 2014, Hildyard has been the Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing and is the Minister for Women and the Protection of Domestic and Family Violence as well as the Minister for Child Protection. Prior to politics, she worked for Nick Bolkus and was a secretary for the Australian Services Union. She was also appointed to the Premier's Council for Women in 2011, and was a mature age student who worked as a cleaner, shop assistant, lecturer, and clerical worker.
Haseen Zaman | Liberal
Zaman is an RAAF veteran who previously ran for the Liberals at the 2023 NSW state election for the seat of Auburn.
Schubert
James Rothe | Labor
A member of the South Australian Multicultural Commission and Business Support Officer for Claire Scriven, Rothe is a 21-yr old International Relations student at Flinders University. He previously ran for Labor at the 2025 Federal Election in the seat of Barker.
Ashton Hurn (MP) | Liberal
The current leader of the Liberal Party, Hurn has been the Member for Schubert since 2022. Prior, she was the Director of Media and Communications for Steven Marshall during his time as Premier, and was an SA representative for 19 and under netball through SASI.
Alice Shore | Animal Justice Party
A retired teacher who can translate 7 languages, Shore is a poet with multiple collections of poems, including Animalia Spirituality (1999). She has been a part of the animal rights' movement since the 70s, as part of Animal Liberal, and was one of the founders of Animal Liberation SA in the 1980s.
Stuart
The Mayor of Port Pirie Regional Council since 2018, Stephens has also been the Chairperson of the Upper Spencer Gulf Cities since 2019. He is also the principal dealer of BoatsnBikes Port Pirie and was the manager of the Recorder Newspaper from 1994-2018.
Brandon Turton | One Nation
Turton is a project and site engineer specialising in civil/structural work. He has previously contested the Grey for One Nation at the 2025 Federal Election, achieving 10% of the vote.
Robyn Parnell | Animal Justice Party
A clairvoyant medium, Parnell has written 100 children books such as Undercover K.I.D. Sheep in Trouble. She has also written non-fiction anti-Kangaroo hunting book, Kangaroo Con: The Truth Behind a Cruel Unsustainable Industry, is a singer-songwriter, and is the founder of SA Kangaroo Alliance.
Geoff Brock (MP) | Independent
Brock has been the Member for Stuart since 2022, previously being the Member for Frome (now Ngadjuri) since 2009. Despite being an independent, Brock has been a minister in Labor governments, such as Minister for Regional Development under Jay Weatherill, Minister for Local Government under both Weatherill and Malinauskas, and Minister for Veteran Affairs and for Regional Roads under Malinauskas, though he gave up his cabinet positions in 2024 due to health issues. Prior to being a politician, he worked at the Nyrstar led smelter and was a councillor for Port Pirie Regional Council from 1989 until 2009, being Mayor from 2003-2009.
Taylor
Nick Champion (MP) | Labor
The Member for Taylor since 2022, Champion has been the Minister for Trade and Investment and is the Minister for Planning and for Housing and Urban Development. He was also the Member for Spence from 2019-2022 federally, as well as the Member for Wakefield from 2007-2019, serving in Bill Shorten's shadow ministry. Prior to politics, he was a union official for the SDA, a ministerial adviser to Michael Wright, and State President of the SA Labor Party from 2005-2006.
Peter Rentoulis | One Nation
A Barrister and Solicitor for Distinction Legal, Rentoulis is also a Councillor for Ward 1 of the City of Playford.
Rita Kuhlmann | Animal Justice Party
A volunteer at the Lyell McEwin Hospital, Kuhlmann previously stood for the Animal Justice Party at the 2019 Federal Election in Spence where she won 3.6% of the vote. More interesting is the fact that she stood as an independent at the 2022 state election for the seat of Taylor, running on a platform of animal justice and judeo-christian values. She has also written a book Stop Playing Dead: If You Want Your Country Back which calls itself a "short, entertaining and informative call to action for conservative values" and whose blurb specifically attacks trans people.
Torrens
Meagan Spencer | Labor
Spencer, she is the Chief of Staff to Claire Scriven and has been a ministerial adviser and office manager for the Labor Party since 2009, including being the office manager of Don Farrell. Rumour has it that Spencer was picked against the wishes of Dana Wortley, the MHA she's replacing, and that this was a captain's call by Premier Peter Malinauskas.
Haritha Reddy Yarra | Liberal
Haritha is the Vice President of the SA Liberals' Torrens State Electorate Council and was a President of the Adelade Telangana Association.
David Medlock | One Nation
Medlock is a Mortgage Consultant at Astute Financial Fairview Park and a General Insurance Adviser at Oasis Wealth Ltd (both jobs he has held since 2003, and which are labelled as 'self-employed').
Unley
Alice Rolls | Labor
Rolls is currently the Director of the Civil Law Division of the Legal Services Commission of SA. She is also a Board Member of the State Theatre Company and a Director of the Accessible Justice Project. She was previously the head of policy and strategy at the Australian Pro Bono Centre and the Principal Counsel for LK (having worked there for 8.5 years).
Rosalie Rotolo | Liberal
Rotolo is a Council Member for the National Library of Australia, and has been a board member of Carclew and Pulteney Grammar School's Board of Trustees. She was also the founder of Bottega Rotolo, which she led for 26 years.
Dylan Kiernan | Greens
Kiernan is a union organised for the Public Service Association and has previously worked for Snowys Outdoors customer support team and as a Program Officer for both EcoCaddy and Bicycle SA. He also has a significant background in wine, working as a Vineyard Operator for Shaw + Smith, an assistant winemarker for Denton Wine, and as a cellar hand for 11 vineyard across 6 years in SA, Victoria, Tasmania, France, and the USA.
Jason Wilkinson | One Nation
Wilkinson runs the monthly Fullarton Market, is a Paul Harris Fellow through Rotary (meaning he's donated $1,000 to them), and has served as a CFS volunteer for which he was awarded the National Emergency Medal.
Ryan Harrison | For Unley
Harrison is a compliance manager for Panda Capital and has worked as a compliance manager for HY Capital, as a director for E Finance Broker, Crown Associates Finance, and Fortress Finance. He was previously secretary and president of the Unley Labor branch, and ran for the seat in 2022 for Labor, though left the party as he was not pre-selected for this election, which he claims was due to his gender or more specifically, because he was not a woman. He also ran for the City of Unley's Parkside Ward in 2020.
Waite
Catherine Hutchesson (MP) | Labor
Hutchesson has been the Member for Waite since 2022, having previously attempted to win the seat at the 2018 state election. She has been an industrial advocate with the Finance Sector Union, is a volunteer firefighter with the Upper Sturt Country CFS, and has been vice-president of the Upper Sturt Soldier's Memorial Hall committee and president of the Country Women's Association Upper Sturt branch.
Frank Pangallo | Liberal
The attack dog who caused 3 different scandals upon joining the Liberal party, by forgetting to shake Tarzia's hand, using AI in a report to parliament, and suggesting Dry Creek be a golf course, Pangallo is no stranger to controversy. Getting into parliament on SA-Best's Legislative Council ticket in 2018, Pangallo left the party in 2023 before joining the Liberals in his lower house run in 2025. Prior to politics, Pangallo was the media advisor to Nick Xenophon, and was a well-known TV journalist. Starting out with The News in the 70s, he also worked as a radio sportscaster for 5DN. He would become well-known for his 'attack dog' style of reporting and has been a producer for 10 and 7, and is a producer for Today Tonight.
Declan Brumfield | Greens
NO INFORMATION FOUND
West Torrens
Tom Koutsantonis (MP) | Labor
The Father of the House and the man who managed to gather 58 traffic offences and $10,000 worth of fines while being Minister for Road Safety, Koutsantonis has been a Member of SA's parliament since 1997, first holding Peake and than West Torrens. He has held far too many ministerial roles to count, but is currently the Minister for Energy and Mining and Treasurer. Prior to being a politician, he was an industrial officer for the SDA.
Samuel Bannon | Greens
NO INFORMATION FOUND
Wright
Blair Boyer (MP) | Labor
The Member for Wright since 2018, Boyer is the Minister for Education, Training and Skills and Minister for Police. Prior, he worked as a solicitor, and as Chief of Staff to Jennifer Rankine as well as Deputy Chief of Staff to Jay Weatherill.
Sean Porter | One Nation
NO INFORMATION FOUND
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Emily Bourke (LC) | Labor
Bourke has been a Member of the Legislative Council since 2018, and is the current Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and for Autism, having been the Minister for Emergency Services and Correctional Services and the Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing. Prior to politics, she was a staffer for Jay Weatherill.
Ben Hood (LC) | Liberal
A Member of the Legislative Council since 2023, Hood is the co-creator and illustrator of children's book series George the Farmer. He is also the owner of helloFriday and the Vice-President/Board Member of the Mount Gambier Chamber of Commerce. Prior, he served as a Councillor and Deputy Mayor of the City of Mt Gambier and as a board member for Landscape SA Limestone Coast. He is also the brother of Lucy Hood.
Melanie Selwood | Greens
Selwood was the Chief of Staff for Robert Simms and was a Councillor and Deputy Mayor for the Adelaide Hills Council from 2022 to 2025. Prior, she was the Owner of Lobethal Bulk Foods and Causeway Projects, the Band Manager of Golonka, and the Stage Manager of the Adelaide Festival Centre for 13yrs.
Carlos Quaremba | One Nation
A Councillor for the City of Victor Harbor, Quaremba stood as One Nation's 2nd candidate for SA's Senate at the 2025 Federal Election.
Connie Bonaros (LC) | SA-Best
A Member of the Legislative Council since 2018, Bonaros was a lawyer and advisor to Nick Xenophon/John Darley prior to entering politics. She stood as part of Nick Xenophon's Independent Team at the 2014 state election, and was Stirling Griff's Chief of Staff afterwards. She has also crusaded against anime and manga.
Jessica Nies | Legalise Cannabis
Remember what I said about Knipe? Nies is about the same, with her story being that prescribed medication didn't work to treat her chronic pain and cannabis did. Beyond this, Nies was the President of Legalise Cannabis by 2020, running for the party as their 1st Senate Candidate at the 2025 State Election.
Lionel Pengilley | Animal Justice Party
Pengilley, the president of Animal Justice Party SA, is a PhD Candidate at Adelaide University researching the transition of regions that have lost major industries. A tutor at the university as well, Pengilley ran for AJP in the seat of Adelaide at the 2025 Federal Election, where he won 2.4% of the vote.
Deepa Mathew | Family First
Mathew is currently a University Lecturer at Torrens University and a franchise owner of Aussie Financial Services. Prior, she was a Lecturer at the University of South Australia, and held multiple roles at the Commonwealth Bank for 12 years.
Rikki Lambert | Nationals
SA's own Conservative globetrotter, Lambert is the Chief of Staff for Nationals MP for Mallee (Victoria) Anne Webster. Prior, he has been the Chief of Staff for Senator Cory Bernardi as part of the Australian Conservatives, Chief of Staff Senator Bob Day as part of Family First, and Media Adviser to Robert Brokenshire MLC also as part of Family First. He also ran for the Australian Conservatives as the party's no.1 Senate Candidate for SA, receiving 1.7% of the vote. Outside of politics, he is the owner of Lambert Creative, was a radio presenter for Flow News 24, and worked a variety of roles for the Lutheran Church and Lutheran Education in 2019 and 2020.
Jake Hall-Evans | Fair Go For Australia
Jake Hall-Evans is likely a name politics hacks in SA have heard of. He was the Liberal candidate for Hindmarsh in the 2019 Federal Election and their candidate for Lee in the 2022 State election, losing both of those to Labor. He also ran in the 2025 election as an independent for Hindmarsh, receiving only 1.6% of the vote. During his time with the Liberals, he was Vice President of the SA Party. Outside of politics, Hall-Evans is a Managing Director for Gigantic Signs, and has been an electoral officer as well as the State General Manager for Wilson's Parking.
Mark Aldridge | United Voice for Australia
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... there's far too much to say about Mark. He's ran for nearly half a dozen parties in the past 25 years, starting all the way back in 2001 as an Independent with his wife. He's been a part of One Nation, the Australian Tea Party, the Great Australian Party, the Australian Federation Party (which he was state director of), the Trumpet of Patriots (which he left after they sent spam texts to everyone), and now UVAP. He has been apart of every election state and federal since 2001 pretty much (despite saying in 2014 he'd never run again), and yet that is not enough for him. He's controversy central, having hosted the first (and one of the biggest) March for Australia's back in August 2025, seemingly being shocked that Nazi's infiltrated the event. He lost his gun license for shooting at hoons in 2020 due to threats of shooting others, including an event in 2017 where he shot at hoon drivers. He's been fined over $100,000 for defamation due to his posts on Facebook against others including a local fruitshop owner, supports animal shelters (all of which seem to be run by people abusing animals), and sells used cars without a license through his wife. All of this is still not everything, but I can't be here all day.
Jing Lee | Jing Lee Better Community
Jing Lee, where's your party? See, its funny because she says she's got a party but polled at 0% and has no other party members (even SA-Best managed two candidates this time, and thats just Bonaros in a party outfit). In more relevant facts, Lee has been a Member of the Legislative Council since 2010. Part of the Liberal Party for much of her time in Parliament, she recently became an Independent after a major controversy where Dr Joanna Howe threatened her pre-selection if she did not withdraw from a pairing agreement with Michelle Lensink (who was on leave due to cancer) and vote on an abortion bill. I'll also note that Lee has had many allegations of being overly connected with the CCP, though many of these are mostly just racism.
Mark Neugebauer | Independent
Neugebauer was the Australian Federation Party candidate for Mayo in 2022 and was an attendee at the aforementioned March for Australia. He is also the host of 'Wake Up Australia' and has written articles for the Spectator.
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Mira El Dannawi (LC) | Labor
A Member of the Legislative Council since 2023, El Dannawi was the first Muslim member of SA's parliament and was an early childhood teacher and assistant director of the Modbury Community Children's Centre.
Heidi Girolamo (LC) | Liberal
A Member of the Legislative Council since 2021, Girolamo was an accountant and a client manager at Deloitte Risk Advisory. She also was the treasurer and a board member of Kidsafe SA and Vice President of the SA Liberals.
Katie McCusker| Greens
McCusker ran for the Greens in Sturt at the 2025 Federal Election, polling at 15.6%. She is currently the office manager for Senator Barbara Pocock, and was previously the Administration manager for the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, the Country Health SA local Health Network, and the South Coast District Hospital.
Rebecca Hewett | One Nation
Hewett has been a Councillor for Mt Barker District Council and the District Council of Barunga West. She previously ran for One Nation for Mayo at the 2025 federal election, receiving 6% of the vote, and for the Australian Conservatives at the 2018 state election in Narungga, winning 9.1% of the vote.
Geoff Russell | Animal Justice Party
A life member of the RSPCA and Animal Liberation SA, Russell is a published author having previously written CSIRO Perfidy, criticising the CSIRO's Total Wellbeing Diet, and more recently, GreenJacked!: The derailing of environmental action on climate change. Writing articles for The Monthly, Australasian Science, The Age, and The Advertiser, Russell previously contested multiple previous elections for the Animal Justice Party. Starting in 2016, he contested Sturt at the Federal Election, receiving 1.31% of the vote. He next contested the 2018 state election in Florey (3.9%), the 2019 federal election in Boothby (2.4%), and finally the 2025 federal election in Makin where he got 2.4% of the vote.
Perrin Rennie | Nationals
Rennie is the Policy Officer for the Young Nationals.
Angela Rojas | Fair Go For Australia
Rojas is the co-founder of the International Coalition4Children, a Christian Conservative group which promotes the 'child safety' and the 'parental voice' over governments and teachers having a say on a child's "morality, ethics and identity".
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Justin Hanson (LC) | Labor
Hanson has been a Member of the Legislative Council since 2017. Prior to this, he was a a member of the City of Tea Tree Gully Council, a Director for the Statewide Superannuation Trust, and workedd the the AWU. Initially rumoured to have been sent to the lower house, after fighting for his life it seems Hanson has kept his spot in the Legislative Council. From what I've heard, running the campaign in Morphett and cutting ties with close ally Ryan Harrison has helped immensely with getting him back in the good books.
Rowan Mumford | Liberal
Mumford's two biggest claims to fame are being a former state party president, and the candidate for Kavel in the 2022 election, a result he lost by a landslide to Dan Cregan (seeing a 26.4% primary vote swing against him). It was also rumoured by InDaily that he and now-Sarah Game Fair Go for Australia Legislative Council candidate Henry Davis were part of the pre-selection battle for Mayo in the lead-up to the 2025 election. If he were, he also lost that pre-selection battle to Zane Basic.
Nathan Skrlj | One Nation
Skrlj has previously run for One Nation in the seat of Kingston at the 2025 federal election, winning 6.2% of the vote.
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Hilton Gumbys | Labor
A defence industry machinist and fitter, Gumbys has served as a union delegate for the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, and was convenor of the National Defence and Aerospace Committee.
Thea Hennessey | Liberal
Hennessy, a small business owner and campaign manager for Zane Basic (the Liberal's federal candidate for Mayo), aiming to be pre-selected for the Legislative Council, has been recorded claiming miracles that most South Australians probably won't identify with. Specifically, she claims to have conducted the practice known as 'lay hands' so well that she cured a girl of her lactose intolerance. Hennessy noted, "we prayed for precious Daisy, and that was it. All dairy intolerance gone. She was really sick before then. God healed her completely", perhaps the most unintentionally funniest line said by a pre-selection hopeful. She also claims that her and her husband stopped their smoking addition - where she was smoking 30 a day and her husband 50 - when a friend of theirs simply said the word 'Lord' in prayer to them.
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Clare Scriven (LC) | Labor
A Member of the Legislative Council since 2022, Scriven is the current Minister for Forest Industries and for Primary Resources and Regional Development. She (alongside Tung Ngo) were the only two Labor members to vote for the 2024 and 2025 anti-abortion bills, and she has participated in the 'How to Vote like a Christian' conference. Prior to politics, she worked for the AEC and as a state Manager for the Australian Forest Products Association.
KD Singh | Liberal
Singh, who recently got featured in an article by The Australian (shudder), is the owner/leader of multiple businesses, including being the managing director of financial advisory firm Money Merchants Financial Service, and the owner/operator of Brice Hill Country Lodge, a tourism property in the Clare Valley. Singh also notes himself as a 'financial coach' on his resume, as well as a 'builder and developer', though provides no examples of what projects he has apparently led in 'sustainable building and community housing'. He also notes his extensive community leadership roles, including being a Governing Council Member of Adelaide High School.
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Senthil Chidambaranathan | Labor
Chidambaranathan is a Senior Manager at the Commonwealth Bank, following 9 years of working there. He is also a Sessional Instructor in Cryptography and Blockchain at the University of the Sunshine Coast and a Guest Lecturer at the University of SA, as well as a Councillor for Charles Sturt since 2022.
Belinda Crawford-Marshall | Liberal
Belinda Crawford-Marshall is the executive pastor at a Pentecostal church and has previously posted to Facebook complaining about chemtrails.
