Redmond led the Liberals into the 2010 election, becoming the first woman to take a major party in the state into an election. Despite winning a slender majority of the two-party-preferred vote, the Liberals only won 18 of 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly, an increase of three from the 2006 election. This was mainly due to a failure to make significant inroads in Adelaide, which has long tilted toward Labor at the state level. While all three Liberal gains were in Adelaide, the party only won six other seats in the capital, including Redmond's.