LIB 0.7% vs IND
Incumbent MP
David Basham, since 2018.
Geography
Regional South Australia. Finniss covers an area to the south of Adelaide, including Victor Harbor, Goolwa, Port Elliot, Mount Compass, Finniss, Milang and the Hindmarsh Valley.
History
The electoral district of Finniss has existed since the 1993 election, and has always been held by the Liberal Party.
Finnis was first won in 1993 by Dean Brown, who led the Liberal Party to the election and became Premier following the Liberal Party’s landslide victory at the election.
Brown had previously held the seat of Davenport from 1973 until 1985, when a redistribution saw Brown compete with a fellow Liberal MP for preselection. Brown won the preselection, but lost to his rival at the general election.
Brown returned to Parliament in 1992 at the Alexandra by-election, triggered by the resignation of Ted Chapman, who had held that seat since 1973.
Brown’s rival John Olsen, who had defeated him for the Liberal leadership in 1982, also returned to Parliament at a by-election in 1992, and Brown defeated Olsen in a race for the Liberal Party leadership.
Brown served as Premier from 1993 until his deposition by Olsen in 1996. He later served as Deputy Premier from 2001 to 2002, and then as Deputy Leader of the Opposition until 2005, retiring in 2006. Brown had won three terms as Member for Finniss.
Finniss was won in 2006 by Michael Pengilly, a former mayor of Kangaroo Island. Pengilly was re-elected in 2010 and 2014, and retired in 2018.
Liberal candidate David Basham won Finniss in 2018. Basham was re-elected narrowly in 2022.
Assessment
This section will be filled in closer to the election.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| David Basham | Liberal | 10,424 | 43.1 | -0.4 |
| Amy Hueppauff | Labor | 5,532 | 22.9 | +6.1 |
| Lou Nicholson | Independent | 4,728 | 19.6 | +19.6 |
| Anne Bourne | Greens | 1,647 | 6.8 | -0.9 |
| Carlos Quaremba | One Nation | 1,146 | 4.7 | +4.7 |
| Dominic Carli | Family First | 614 | 2.5 | +2.5 |
| Joe Ienco | Nationals | 82 | 0.3 | +0.3 |
| Informal | 778 | 3.1 |
2022 two-candidate-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| David Basham | Liberal | 12,258 | 50.7 | |
| Lou Nicholson | Independent | 11,915 | 49.3 |
Booths have been divided into three parts: Goolwa, Victor Harbour and the area in between grouped as “Central”.
The Liberal Party topped the primary vote, ranging from 33.3% in the centre to 38.5% in Victor Harbour. Over half the vote was cast outside of ordinary election day booths, and the Liberal Party polled 47.8% of the primary vote in this category.
The Labor vote ranged from 22.5% in the other votes to 23.8% in the centre.
The vote for the independent candidate ranged from 16.9% in the other votes to 27.3% in the centre.
| Voter group | ALP prim | IND prim | LIB prim | Total votes | % of votes |
| Goolwa | 23.6 | 22.5 | 37.9 | 3,950 | 16.3 |
| Victor Harbour | 23.1 | 20.8 | 38.5 | 3,932 | 16.3 |
| Central | 23.8 | 27.3 | 33.3 | 2,532 | 10.5 |
| Other votes | 22.5 | 16.9 | 47.8 | 13,759 | 56.9 |
Election results in Finniss at the 2022 South Australian state election
Toggle between two-candidate-preferred votes and primary votes for the Liberal Party, Labor and the Greens.