State election 2026: Results in Hammond and the Murraylands
One Nation is leading in a three-way contest early in the vote count.
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7.45pm Saturday
One Nation’s Robert Roylance is leading all candidates early in the vote counting in Hammond, but the Liberals’ Adrian Pederick and Labor’s Simone Bailey are both hot on his heels early on.
With 1652 votes counted out of 29,166, One Nation was on 27.4 per cent, the Liberals on 25.5% and Labor on 24.4%.
Independent Airlie Keen was the best of the rest with 11.2%.
Labor Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis suggested Hammond would be won by whoever finished second.
“If the Liberal Party stay in second place, they’ll probably be elected on Labor preferences,” he said on the ABC’s election coverage.
“If Labor can get into second place, I think Adrian Pederick is in a lot of trouble.
“But we’ll wait to see the Murray Bridge numbers.”
One Nation led all parties at Murray Bridge East, Harrogate and Ponde, and had the same number of votes as Labor at Palmer.
The Liberals led at Wellington and Woods Points.
7.15pm Saturday
A three-way contest already looks to be brewing in Hammond as the first results come in from today’s election.
The good people of Woods Point cast 157 votes today, and three candidates were neck and neck there: the Liberals with 44, Labor with 43 and One Nation with 41.
That’s … 0.5 per cent of votes counted so far.
With a similar number of votes counted in Mackillop, One Nation candidate Jason Virgo is leading independent MP Nick McBride.
Murray Bridge News will update the below map of Hammond as results continue to come in, with blue for the Liberals, red for Labor and orange for One Nation; a question mark indicates that preferences will need to be counted, while a tick indicates a candidate has more than 50% of votes.
Labor’s Simone Bailey thanked her supporters in a social media post this afternoon: “This campaign has been an incredible ride, and I've been amazed at the support from so many.”
Independent Airlie Keen also posted this morning about the “overwhelming support and positivity” she had experienced during the campaign.
“If politics is about achieving outcomes for our community, then we have already won, with over $100 million in commitments and counting,” she said.
6pm Saturday
Votes have been cast, polling places have closed – now we wait to see who will serve for the next four years as the state Member for Hammond, and in neighbouring electorates.
Liberal MP Adrian Pederick has spent the past 20 years as Member for Hammond, having defeated independent Peter Lewis in 2006.
Challenging him this time are Labor’s Simone Bailey, One Nation’s Robert Roylance, independent Airlie Keen and eight other candidates.
In Mackillop, the electorate which includes Tailem Bend, independent Nick McBride aims to keep his seat in the face of competition from Liberal candidate Rebekah Rosser and seven others.
You may also be interested in the result from Chaffey, the Riverland electorate which covers the Mallee and parts of the Mid Murray district and is represented by Liberal Tim Whetstone.
The Electoral Commission of South Australia will start counting votes from 6pm on Saturday.
If any candidate receives at least 50 per cent of votes, they will be declared the winner; if not, the candidate with the fewest votes will be eliminated, their second preferences will be counted, and we’ll go again, and so on.
More than 40 per cent of Hammond’s 29,144 enrolled voters cast their votes early in Murray Bridge, or by post, and counting them will take a while.
A result may not become clear until late on Saturday night, or even early next week if a minor-party or independent candidate makes the top two.
Murray Bridge News will provide rolling updates on this page, including booth-by-booth results in the map above.
For what it’s worth, the Liberal Party earned the most votes in every booth except one in 2022.
Callington backed Ms Keen, the independent, a resident of the town.
On a two-party-preferred basis, Labor won four booths – Murray Bridge north and south, Callington and Mannum – while the Liberals won the rest.
Take a look back at all our previous election coverage here.
- More information: result.ecsa.sa.gov.au.
