SOUTH Australian Premier Jay Weatherill says he wants to lead a majority Labor government after Saturday's state election.
On the final day of the campaign, the premier has brushed off questions over his willingness to head a minority administration if voters deliver a hung parliament.
Mr Weatherill has also refused to speculate on his own future as Labor leader should the Liberals be successful.
The premier says he's focused on winning a majority of votes in a majority of seats.
"I want to lead a majority government," Mr Weatherill told reporters on Friday.
"That's our objective. We're presenting policies to gather a majority of votes in a majority of seats."
Labor holds 26 seats in the SA's 47-seat parliament. The Liberals have 18 and three are held by independents.
That leaves the opposition needing six seats to govern in their own right, or as few as three if they can secure support from the cross benches and assuming all three are returned.
Mr Weatherill can afford to lose as many as five seats, if he gets the backing of the independents.
Labor was returned in the 2010 election despite losing the popular vote by successfully defending a handful of key marginals.
That will prove more difficult this time: six of the party's seats are on a margin of less than three per cent.
However, the latest polling suggests Labor's vote is holding up in at least two of those electorates.
On Friday, the premier toured two of Labor's signature projects, the construction site of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and the redeveloped Adelaide Oval.
They were both championed by former premier Mike Rann, who Mr Weatherill replaced in 2011 in a factional deal.
The premier declined to speculate on his own future if Labor lost on Saturday.
"I'm not contemplating what the voters might decide to do at the election," he said.
"I'm not going to disrespect them by making any presumptions."
Mr Weatherill said voters should focus on what Labor was offering.
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