Liberal party preferences handed seats to One Nation in South Australian election, analysts say

South Australian Liberal leader Ashton Hurn said placing One Nation ahead of the Labor party was ‘a vote of no confidence in the government’. Photograph: Matt Turner/AAP

The Liberal party’s decision to preference One Nation above Labor at last Saturday’s South Australian election will hand seats to the rightwing, populist party, analysts say.

Labor won the election with a thumping majority, while the Liberal party finished behind Pauline Hanson’s party on primary votes.