This is a list of members of the ninth parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly, which sat from 1878 until April 1881. The members were elected at the 1878 election in May 1878.
Name Electorate Term in Office Thomas Atkinson Noarlunga 1878–1887 M. P. F. Basedow Barossa 1876–1890 William Henry Bean West Torrens 1870–1871, 1878–1884 Neville Blyth North Adelaide 1860–1867, 1868–1870, 1871, 1877–1878 John Bosworth Wooroora 1875–1884 James Boucaut Encounter Bay 1861–1862, 1865–1870, 1871–1878 David Bower Port Adelaide 1865–1870, 1875–1887 John Cox Bray East Adelaide 1871–1892 Henry Edward Bright Wooroora 1875–1884 William Henry Bundey Onkaparinga 1871–1875, 1878–1881 John Carr Noarlunga 1865–1879, 1881–1884 Frank Skeffington Carroll Light 1878 Wentworth Cavenagh Yatala 1862–1875, 1875–1881 Patrick Boyce Coglin Flinders 1860–1868, 1870–1871, 1875–1881, 1882–1887 John Colton Noarlunga 1862–1870, 1875–1878, 1878, 1880–1887 Ebenezer Cooke Flinders 1875–1882 John Darling Yatala 1870–1871, 1876–1881, 1885–1887 John Downer Barossa 1878–1901 George Fowler East Adelaide 1878–1881 Hugh Fraser West Adelaide 1868–1870, 1871–1876, 1878–1881 Luke Furner Wallaroo 1878–1890 Lavington Glyde Victoria 1857–1875, 1877–1884 William Haines Gumeracha 1878–1884 Arthur Hardy Albert 1875–1886, 1886–1887 Charles Simeon Hare Wallaroo 1857, 1878–1881 John Hart, junior Port Adelaide 1880–1881 George Charles Hawker Victoria 1858–1865, 1875–1883, 1884–1895 Rudolph Henning Albert 1878–1885 Thomas King Sturt 1875–1881, 1882–1885 George Strickland Kingston Stanley 1862–1881 Friedrich Krichauff Onkaparinga 1857–1858, 1870–1882, 1884–1890 Albert Henry Landseer Mount Barker 1875–1899 William James Magarey West Torrens 1878–1881 Charles Mann Stanley 1870–1881 David Moody Light 1878–1881, 1884–1887, 1896–1899 William Ranson Mortlock Flinders 1878–1884 John Langdon Parsons Encounter Bay 1878–1884, 1890–1893 Caleb Peacock North Adelaide 1878–1881 Thomas Playford East Torrens 1868–1871, 1875–1887,1887–1890, 1899–1901 Rowland Rees Burra 1873–1881, 1882–1890 John Rounsevell Gumeracha 1865–1868, 1880–1881 Ben Rounsevell Burra 1875–1890 James Shannon Light 1878–1881 Francis William Stokes Mount Barker 1878–1881 William Quin Port Adelaide 1870–1871, 1875–1880 Robert Dalrymple Ross Wallaroo 1875–1887 William Knox Simms West Adelaide 1868–1870, 1871–1876, 1878–1881 Edwin Thomas Smith East Torrens 1871–1877, 1878–1893 William Townsend Sturt 1857–1882 Ebenezer Ward Gumeracha 1870–1880, 1881–1890 William West-Erskine Encounter Bay 1878–1881 James White Light 1871, 1875–1881
Light MHA Frank Skeffington Carroll resigned on 31 May 1878. David Moody won the resulting by-election on 12 June. Noarlunga MHA John Colton resigned on 29 August 1878. Thomas Atkinson won the resulting by-election on 14 September. Encounter Bay MHA James Boucaut resigned on 25 September 1878. William West-Erskine won the resulting by-election on 10 October. North Adelaide MHA Neville Blyth resigned on 2 December 1878. Caleb Peacock won the resulting by-election on 16 December. Noarlunga MHA John Carr resigned on 16 December 1879. John Colton won the resulting by-election on 6 January 1880. Gumeracha MHA Ebenezer Ward resigned on 5 April 1880. John Rounsevell won the resulting by-election on 24 April. Port Adelaide MHA William Quin resigned on 17 July 1880. John Hart, junior won the resulting by-election on 27 July. Stanley MHA George Strickland Kingston died on 26 November 1880. No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1881 general election.
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