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In the Adelaide metropolitan area, the Liberal Party is only guaranteed of holding one seat after Saturday’s electoral wipeout. Voters have told the ABC constant leadership changes and an inability to offer a viable alternative led them to look elsewhere.

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00:02A sign of the times, the once dependable Liberal seat of Unley in Labor hands for the first
00:08time in three decades.
00:10At the moment, there's not much else to vote for.
00:13I don't think the, again, Federal Liberals or the State Liberals are offering too much.
00:17I used to be, or used to lean more towards the Liberal Party because they were pro-business.
00:26Disaffected former Liberal voters like Tony Monteleone have deserted the party.
00:32Unley wanted four city seats to be lost to Labor, the party's primary vote dropping to
00:37under 20%.
00:38I'm happy that the Labor Party won this election because I think that Peter Malinowskis has done
00:44a great job in the last four years.
00:47Even some who supported the Liberals on Saturday are demanding the party reform itself.
00:52They're fighting themselves.
00:54When they stop, they'll get somewhere.
00:56We've got to be better and there's a lot of lessons to take away from it.
01:01One of the highest profile Liberal casualties is the former Speaker, one-time Government
01:06Minister and the man who was Opposition Leader just four months ago, Vincent Tarsier.
01:11He'd held the marginal seat of Hartley for 12 years but couldn't hold off Labor this time.
01:16Now it's quite surprising to see Vincent to go, see who's going to replace him.
01:21Jen Roberts has become the new member for Hartley with an 8% two-party swing, Labor's primary
01:26vote holding strong as the Liberal vote leaked to One Nation.
01:31Everyone's struggling to keep their heads above water so it's just not good.
01:36Labor's future challenge addressing voter frustrations and avoiding the electoral drift
01:41that's impacted the Liberal Party.
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