Electoral district of Norwood

Norwood South Australia—House of Assembly
State	South Australia
Created	1938
Abolished	2014
Namesake	Norwood, South Australia
Demographic	Metropolitan

Norwood is a former electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It was a 14.2 km² inner-urban electorate in Adelaide and was named after the inner-eastern suburb of Norwood. In its final configuration, the seat also included the suburbs of Beulah Park, College Park, Evandale, Firle, Hackney, Joslin, Kent Town, Marden, Maylands, Payneham South, Royston Park, St Morris, St Peters, Stepney, Trinity Gardens and Vale Park, as well as parts of Kensington, Klemzig and Payneham.

Norwood was created as an electoral district in 1938, and was usually a marginal seat, changing hands between the Labor Party and the Liberal Party (and the Liberals' predecessor, the Liberal and Country League) a number of times. The electorate is synonymous with former Premier of South Australia Don Dunstan, who held the seat from 1953 until 1979.

In 1979 and 1980, Norwood voters went to the ballot box three times within 12 months; first at the March 1979 by-election following Dunstan's resignation, then the September 1979 state election, and again at the February 1980 by-election which resulted from a court decision invalidating the election result. That by-election reduced the Tonkin government's already precarious two-seat majority to a knife-edge of one seat.

From 1979 until 1993 (with a short break from September 1979 to February 1980), the seat was held by prominent Labor minister Greg Crafter, who is now Australian head of the International Baccalaureate Organization and the University of Adelaide alumni organisation. In the shadow of the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia, the Liberals, through John Cummins, reclaimed the seat at the 1993 state election in a landslide. Cummins was defeated by Labor's Vini Ciccarello at the 1997 state election with a 1.5% margin. At the 2002 state election, the margin was whittled down to 0.5% but was increased to 4.2% at the 2006 state election. Ciccarello was defeated in the 2010 state election by Liberal candidate Steven Marshall, following a large swing, which was the first time that Labor had been in government without holding the seat of Norwood.

The Electoral Commission of South Australia's 2012 redistribution included renaming the seat to Dunstan which took effect from 15 March 2014.

Members for Norwood

Member		Party	Term
	Frank Nieass	Labor	1938–1941
	Roy Moir	Liberal and Country	1941–1944
	Frank Nieass	Labor	1944–1947
	Roy Moir	Liberal and Country	1947–1953
	Don Dunstan	Labor	1953–1979
	Greg Crafter	Labor	1979–1979
	Frank Webster	Liberal	1979–1980
	Greg Crafter	Labor	1980–1993
	John Cummins	Liberal	1993–1997
	Vini Ciccarello	Labor	1997–2010
	Steven Marshall	Liberal	2010–2014

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Norwood

External links

• Poll Bludger profile for Norwood: 2006 Archived 14 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• Poll Bludger profile for Norwood: 2010 Archived 5 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
• ABC profile for Norwood: 2006