Election Results
| South Australian state election, 2010: Mitchell | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Alan Sibbons | 7,545 | 33.9 | -9.1 | |
| Liberal | Peta McCance | 6,386 | 28.7 | +6.4 | |
| Independent | Kris Hanna | 6,237 | 28.0 | +7.7 | |
| Greens | Jeremy Miller | 1,125 | 5.1 | +1.3 | |
| Family First | Colin Gibson | 950 | 4.3 | -1.7 | |
| Total formal votes | 22,243 | 96.6 | |||
| Informal votes | 700 | 3.4 | |||
| Turnout | 22,943 | 94.0 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Alan Sibbons | 11,597 | 52.1 | +2.7 | |
| Liberal | Peta McCance | 10,646 | 47.9 | +47.9 | |
| Labor gain from Independent | Swing | +2.7 | |||
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