STATE Labor candidate Jo Chapley was injured in a dog attack on Monday while she was campaigning for the upcoming state election.

Ms Chapley, who is running for the seat of Adelaide, took to social media to report her injuries, displaying an arm in a sling and saying she had broken two bones in the arm during the incident.

“If you haven’t been attacked by a dog and broken an arm, are you really campaigning hard enough?” Ms Chapley wrote.

She was campaigning in Prospect when she entered the front yard of a house and was attacked by the dog.

The dog jumped up and clamped its jaws around her wrist and hand.

However Ms Chapley managed to shake dog off but as she was leaving the property to continue doorknocking she felt light-headed and fell, breaking her arm in two places.

Ms Chapley continued campaigning after the fall, even attending a public event at Adelaide University with Premier Jay Weatherill before she finally agreed to be taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital for treatment.

“Not the best circumstances to check out Labor’s world-class hospital, but thank you to all the nurses and staff,” Ms Chapley said,

She is understood to now be recovering at home.