The Playmander was eventually beaten at the 1965 election. Labor won 55 percent of the two-party vote; as in 1962, this would have been enough for a comprehensive Labor victory in the rest of Australia. As it was, the rural overweighting was strong enough that Labor only won 21 seats, a two-seat majority. Walsh retired in late 1967 and was succeeded by Dunstan, who led Labor into the 1968 election. While Labor won 53.2 percent of the two-party vote, it lost two seats, resulting in a hung parliament. Independent Tom Stott threw his support to the LCL, thus making LCL leader Steele Hall the new premier even though the LCL had won only 46.8 percent of the two-party vote. The LCL won only three metropolitan seats in 1965 and 1968 – Burnside, Mitcham and Torrens.