1881 South Australian colonial election

1881 South Australian colonial election
← 1878 8−27 April 1881 1884 →
All seats in the South Australian House of Assembly

Colonial elections were held in South Australia from 8 April to 27 April 1881.[1] All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election, along with six of the 18 seats in the South Australian Legislative Council.

The Boucaut government which had taken the parliament into the 1878 election lasted only four months before it was defeated by William Morgan, who brought the first real stability to government. Morgan took the parliament through a full term, and into the 1881 election.

  1. ^ "Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 to 2009" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2016.