Electoral History
Prior to 1995, a very small local Green party not connected to the emerging Australian Greens contested a number of State and Federal elections. This party was more or less non-functioning by the time Mark Parnell called the first meetings to establish a new Green Party in 1995. It took a number of attempts to get the new party off the ground, however a visit to Adelaide by Bob Brown in late 1995 provided the necessary impetus to register the new party.
The Australian Greens (SA) first ran in the 1996 federal election and the 1997 state election. In both elections they received around two percent of the statewide upper house vote.
Since that time, the SA Greens have steadily built up a support base at state and federal elections, partly due to the demise of the Democrats. The SA Greens now have two MLCs and two Senators, with state and federal Newspoll showing the Green vote consistently above 10 percent.
Read more about this topic: Greens South Australia
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