South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts50—Failure of election
(1) Whenever an
election wholly or partially fails, a new writ must immediately be issued for
a supplementary election.
(2) An election will
be taken to have wholly failed if no candidate is nominated or returned as
elected.
(3) A Legislative
Council election will be taken to have partially failed if one or more
candidates are returned as elected but not the full number required to be
elected.
(4) A supplementary
election must, unless more than 3 months have elapsed between the date fixed
for the return of the writ for the election that failed and the date of the
writ for the supplementary election, be held on the same rolls as were
prepared for the earlier election.