page_title: Playmander
section_title: Results 1933–1973
hierarchical_section_title: Playmander / Results 1933–1973
caption_attribution_description: English: 2006 South Australian state election
context_page_description: The Playmander was a gerrymandering system, a pro-rural electoral malapportionment in the Australian state of South Australia, introduced by the incumbent Liberal and Country League government, and in place for 32 years from 1936 to 1968. It consisted of 26 low-population rural seats holding up to a 10-to-1 advantage over the 13 high-population metropolitan seats in the state parliament, even though rural seats contained only a third of South Australia's population. At the peak of the malapportionment in 1968, the rural seat of Frome had 4,500 formal votes, while the metropolitan seat of Enfield had 42,000 formal votes.
  Additionally there was a change from multi-member seats to single-member seats for the first time in South Australian history and the number of MPs in the lower house was reduced from 46 to 39. With a decisive advantage to the LCL, voters may have been more inclined to vote for the expected status quo LCL government.
  Labor managed to win enough parliamentary seats to form government just once during the Playmander against the odds − in 1965.
context_section_description: The LCL began in 1932 and ended in 1974. The Playmander began in 1936 and ended after 1968. Two-party-preferred (2PP) figures are not available prior to 1944.
caption: Liberals blue, Labor red. Electoral seats for the 2006 election in urban Adelaide with 34 metropolitan seats representing 1.3 million people, with 13 rural seats representing 0.4 million people. In the 1965 election, 13 urban seats represented 0.7 million people and 26 rural seats represented 0.4 million people. For other maps 1993 and onward, see Elections in South Australia.
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