# Ted Connelly

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'''Edward Connelly''' (6 November 1918 &ndash; 17 September 2013) was an Australian politician. He was an [independent](/source/independent_(politics)) member of the [South Australian House of Assembly](/source/South_Australian_House_of_Assembly) between 1975 and 1977, representing the electorate of [Pirie](/source/Electoral_district_of_Pirie).<ref name="SA parl">{{Cite SA-parl|pid=2511|name=Edward (Ted) Connelly|former=yes|access-date=14 November 2022}}</ref>

At the [1975 state election](/source/1975_South_Australian_state_election), [Labor](/source/Australian_Labor_Party_(South_Australian_Branch)) and the opposition parties held 23 seats each. Connelly was in a [balance of power](/source/Balance_of_power_(parliament)) situation, and subsequently sided with Labor, and was made [Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly](/source/Speaker_of_the_South_Australian_House_of_Assembly) for the [Don Dunstan](/source/Don_Dunstan) Labor government.

He had previously served as mayor of the [City of Port Pirie](/source/City_of_Port_Pirie) from 1971 to 1975.<ref name=b1986>{{Citation | author1=Matthews, Penny | title=South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986 | year=1986 | publication-date=1986 | publisher=Wakefield Press | isbn=978-0-949268-82-2}}</ref> Connelly served in World War 2 in the RAAF, and in the last two years of the war as a flight sergeant in Darwin.

On 16 September 2013, Connelly died at the Mary Potter Hospice in [Adelaide](/source/Adelaide). He was 94.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/18966570/former-independent-mp-ted-connelly-dies-in-adelaide/ |title=Former independent MP Ted Connelly dies in Adelaide |publisher=[Yahoo! News](/source/Yahoo!_News) |date=16 September 2013 |access-date=13 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024042531/http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/18966570/former-independent-mp-ted-connelly-dies-in-adelaide/ |archive-date=24 October 2013 }}</ref>

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{{s-bef | before=[Dave McKee](/source/Dave_McKee) }}
{{s-ttl | title=Member for [Pirie](/source/Electoral_district_of_Pirie) | years=1975–1977}}
{{s-non | reason =District abolished}}
{{s-bef | before=[John Ryan](/source/John_Ryan_(South_Australian_politician)) }}
{{s-ttl | title=[Speaker of the <br />South Australian House of Assembly](/source/Speaker_of_the_South_Australian_House_of_Assembly) | years=1975–1977}}
{{s-aft | after=[Gil Langley](/source/Gil_Langley)}}
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