{"id":689721,"date":"2026-03-29T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/689721\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:59:15","slug":"labors-toby-priest-defeats-liberals-stephen-patterson-to-win-morphett-in-sa-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/689721\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor’s Toby Priest defeats Liberals’ Stephen Patterson to win Morphett in SA election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labor has won the blue-ribbon South Australian state seat of Morphett from the Liberal Party, the ABC projects.<\/p>\n

However, the Liberals are not yet conceding defeat.<\/p>\n

New counting in the state election today has Labor’s Toby Priest with a 290-vote lead over Liberal frontbencher Stephen Patterson.<\/p>\n

Labor has now won 34 of the 47 seats in the lower house of South Australian parliament, while the Liberals have five and One Nation two.<\/p>\n

Two seats held by independents, Narungga and MacKillop, are still in doubt.<\/p>\n

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Liberal Stephen Patterson played football for Collingwood and Norwood. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Mr Patterson has been the Member for Morphett since 2018.<\/p>\n

He was an AFL and SANFL footballer and then the mayor of Holdfast Bay before being elected.<\/p>\n

Most recently, he served as the Liberals’ spokesman for energy, mining, defence and space industries.<\/p>\n

Deputy Liberal leader Josh Teague, who was confirmed as winning his seat of Heysen on Friday<\/a>, said counting was still underway in Morphett and the party had not yet admitted defeat.<\/p>\n

“Stephen Patterson is my close friend and close colleague,” Mr Teague said.<\/p>\n

“We came into the parliament together, I hold him in the highest regard and, if the outcome of Morphett goes against him, then Stephen Patterson will be a great loss to the South Australian parliament and our party indeed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Liberal Party has held Morphett since 1979, apart from for one year ahead of the 2018 election.<\/p>\n

The seat is centred around the beachside suburb of Glenelg and was previously held with a 4.5 per cent margin.<\/p>\n

Mr Priest is a teacher at St Thomas School in Goodwood and a boarding supervisor at Immanuel College in Novar Gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labor has won the blue-ribbon South Australian state seat of Morphett from the Liberal Party, the ABC projects.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":689722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[25403,56206,4740,52164,289089,606,17127,289088,50,2090,83020],"class_list":["post-689721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adelaide","tag-alp","tag-australia","tag-casey-briggs","tag-glenelg","tag-labor","tag-liberal-party","tag-morphett","tag-news","tag-projection","tag-winner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116311410325459791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}