One Nation has its first MP in South Australia's parliament after Sarah Game was elected to the Legislative Council in a vote count conducted this morning.
Labor has had five members elected to the upper house in the new parliament, including Russell Wortley, whose position had been considered unwinnable ahead of the March 19 election.
The results for the first nine seats were already known, made up of four Labor MLCs, four Liberals and Greens MP Robert Simms.
Ms Game — a veterinarian from South Brighton who also goes by the name Sarah Wareing — was largely unknown ahead of the election.
She thanked federal party leader Pauline Hanson for her support and said she was looking forward to "working constructively" with her upper house colleagues.
She said she was "thrilled One Nation has a voice in South Australia's parliament".
She would not comment on her party's immigration policies.
"I would need to make my own enquiries before making any hard comment on that, other than to say I personally support Australia supporting people in need in other communities," she said.
Her mother, Jennifer Game, is running for the federal Senate for One Nation.
Labor shy of controlling chamber
Labor now has nine members in the 22-seat Legislative Council.
The Liberals have eight, the Greens two, SA Best two and One Nation one.
Mr Wortley is a former Labor minister and Legislative Council president.
All of Labor's new or re-elected MLCs are men.
New to Labor's ranks will be the party's state secretary, Reggie Martin, while the Liberals will welcome political staffer Laura Curran to their fold.
Advance SA MP John Darley was the only current upper house member who ran and was defeated, while independent John Dawkins and Liberal Rob Lucas retired.
First preference votes were known in the week after the election, but then all ballots were scanned ahead of the complicated process of distributing preferences conducted today by a computer.
One Nation received 4.2 per cent of first preferences, ahead of the Liberal Democrats and Family First.
