Pauline Hanson’s One Nation likely to win second South Australian lower house seat

ABC projects rightwing populist party will pick up the electorate of Hammond from the Liberals Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One Nation has secured a second seat in South Australia, according to ABC projections. On Friday afternoon, Pauline Hanson’s party was sitting on a 22.3% primary vote, ahead of the Liberals on 19.4%. As expected, Labor won Saturday’s election in a landslide. The polls in the lead-up to the election showed the surge in support for the anti-immigration, rightwing populist party, which has now won its first lower house seat outside Queensland. An Advertiser/YouGov poll showed most supporters were voting for One Nation as a protest vote against the major parties, with just one in 10 voting for them because of their policies. The former federal Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, who joined the party in February, will lead One Nation in the state’s upper house, the legislative council. He is set to be joined by two other One Nation MLCs. They will work alongside Sarah Game, who became the first person elected to the state parliament from One Nation at the 2022 election. She defected in 2025 to form her own party. The SA result was th