Electoral district of Adelaide
Adelaide South Australia—House of Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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State | South Australia | ||||||||||||||
Created | 1902 | ||||||||||||||
MP | Rachel Sanderson | ||||||||||||||
Party | Liberal Party of Australia (SA) | ||||||||||||||
Namesake | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 24,928 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 22.84 km2 (8.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°54′28″S 138°36′5″E / 34.90778°S 138.60139°E | ||||||||||||||
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Adelaide is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. The 23.4 km² state seat of Adelaide currently consists of the Adelaide city centre including North Adelaide and suburbs to the inner north and inner north east: Walkerville, Gilberton, Medindie, Medindie Gardens, Thorngate, Fitzroy, Ovingham, most of Prospect up to Regency Road, and parts of Collinswood and Nailsworth. The boundaries have been the same for the past three elections. The federal division of Adelaide covers the state seat of Adelaide and additional suburbs in each direction.
The electorate's name comes from the city which it encompasses, which is named after Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the German born Queen consort of the King of England, King William IV.
History
Originally the seat of City of Adelaide from 1857 to 1862, Adelaide was created from the seats of East Adelaide and West Adelaide as a four-seat multi-member district, surrounded by the other two metropolitan districts of 13 seats total being Torrens and Port Adelaide, from the 1902 election.[1] Adelaide became a three-member district from the 1915 election, and then changed from a multi-member to single-member seat upon the introduction of the Playmander from the 1938 election.[2]
For most of the next half-century, the seat was comfortably safe for the Australian Labor Party. A significant redistribution in 1983 saw the Labor two-party vote reduced from 66 percent to 47 percent, transforming into a notional marginal Liberal seat in one stroke. However, Labor retained the seat at the 1985 election, albeit as the most marginal seat in parliament. Liberal Michael Armitage narrowly took the seat at the 1989 election--the first time that they or their predecessors, the Liberal and Country League, had won it in its single-member incarnation. The Liberal high-tide in Adelaide occurred at the landslide 1993 election, with the Liberal two-party vote swelling to a safe 64.1 percent. However, it once again became a marginal Liberal seat at the 1997 election.
After a redistribution ahead of the 2002 election made the seat even more marginal, Armitage tried to transfer to the much friendlier seat of Bragg, but lost a preselection battle to Vickie Chapman. Labor candidate Jane Lomax-Smith regained the seat for Labor at the 2002 election as a marginal seat, one of two gains that assisted Labor in forming government. It became a safe Labor seat at the landslide 2006 election on a 60.2 percent two-party vote, before the Liberals won Adelaide for the second time at the 2010 election on a swing of over 14 percent, turning it from safe Labor to marginal Liberal in one stroke. The Liberals retained Adelaide at the 2014 election on a marginal 52.4 (−1.8) percent two-party vote.
Members for Adelaide
Four-member electorate (1902–1915) | |||||||||||||||
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Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||||
Lewis Cohen | National League | 1902–1906 | Bill Denny | Independent Liberal | 1902–1905 | Hugh Dixson | 1902–1905 | Theodor Scherk | 1902–1905 | ||||||
William David Ponder | Labor | 1905–1915 | Ernest Roberts | Labor | 1905–1908 | James Zimri Sellar | Labor | 1905–1906 | |||||||
Bill Denny | Labor | 1906–1915 | |||||||||||||
Reginald Blundell | Labor | 1907–1915 | |||||||||||||
Edward Alfred Anstey | Labor | 1908–1915 |
Three-member electorate (1915–1938) | ||||||||||||||
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Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||||||
Bill Denny | Labor | 1915–1933 | Reginald Blundell | Labor | 1915–1917 | John Gunn | Labor | 1915–1917 | ||||||
National | 1917–1918 | Bert Edwards | Labor | 1917–1931 | ||||||||||
John Gunn | Labor | 1918–1926 | ||||||||||||
Herbert George | Labor | 1926–1933 | ||||||||||||
Parliamentary Labor | 1931–1933 | Martin Collaton | Lang Labor | 1931–1932 | ||||||||||
Labor | 1932–1933 | |||||||||||||
Doug Bardolph | Lang Labor | 1933–1934 | Bob Dale | Lang Labor | 1933–1933 | Tom Howard | Lang Labor | 1933–1933 | ||||||
SA Lang Labor | 1933–1934 | SA Lang Labor | 1933–1934 | |||||||||||
Labor | 1934–1935 | Labor | 1934–1938 | Labor | 1934–1938 | |||||||||
Independent | 1935–1938 |
Member | Party | Term | |
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Doug Bardolph | Independent | 1938–1944 | |
Bob Dale | Labor | 1944–1947 | |
Herbert George | Labor | 1947–1950 | |
Sam Lawn | Labor | 1950–1971 | |
Jack Wright | Labor | 1971–1985 | |
Michael Duigan | Labor | 1985–1989 | |
Michael Armitage | Liberal | 1989–2002 | |
Jane Lomax-Smith | Labor | 2002–2010 | |
Rachel Sanderson | Liberal | 2010–present |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rachel Sanderson | 10,226 | 47.2 | −2.1 | |
Labor | Jo Chapley | 7,750 | 35.8 | +0.5 | |
Greens | Robert Simms | 2,739 | 12.6 | +0.7 | |
Dignity | Betty-Jean Price | 946 | 4.4 | +1.1 | |
Total formal votes | 21,661 | 97.8 | −0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 487 | 2.2 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 22,148 | 88.8 | +2.4 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Rachel Sanderson | 11,043 | 51.0 | −2.0 | |
Labor | Jo Chapley | 10,618 | 49.0 | +2.0 | |
Liberal hold | Swing | −2.0 |
References
- ^ The 13 electorates from 1902 to 1915: The Adelaide Chronicle
- ^ "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836 to 2009" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia.
- ^ State Election Results - District Results for Adelaide, ECSA.