Electoral district of King (South Australia)
| King QC | |||||||||||||||
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| Electors | 27,002 (2016)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°43′S 138°44′E / 34.72°S 138.74°E | ||||||||||||||
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| Electoral District map[2] | |||||||||||||||
King is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election.[1]
King is named after
QC, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia and Attorney-General in the Dunstan government.[1]
The Electoral District Boundaries Commission considered that it had renamed the
Geography
At its creation in 2016, King contained the suburbs of
Gould Creek, Hillbank, Golden Grove, Greenwith, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park and part of Salisbury East. The northern part is essentially rural and the southern part is suburban. It is on the western foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges at the northern end of Adelaide
.
The 2020 redistribution has moved the northern boundary south to Uley Road which has resulted in the movement of the suburbs of Bibaringa, Uleybury and Yattalunga which were part of the former Electorate of Napier to Schubert.[3]
Members for King
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paula Luethen | Liberal
|
2018–2022 | |
| Rhiannon Pearce | Labor
|
2022–present | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Rhiannon Pearce | 10,366 | 43.2 | +8.9 | |
| Liberal | Paula Luethen | 9,644 | 40.2 | +3.5 | |
| Greens | Kate Randell | 1,347 | 5.6 | −0.2 | |
| Family First | Alisha Minahan | 874 | 3.6 | +3.6 | |
| Australian Family | Alex Banks | 865 | 3.6 | +3.6 | |
| Animal Justice | Frankie Bray | 604 | 2.5 | +2.5 | |
| Real Change | Jodi Hutchinson | 308 | 1.3 | +1.3 | |
| Total formal votes | 24,008 | 96.3 | |||
| Informal votes | 934 | 3.7 | |||
| Turnout | 24,942 | 91.7 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Rhiannon Pearce | 12,692 | 52.9 | +3.5 | |
| Liberal | Paula Luethen | 11,316 | 47.1 | −3.5 | |
| Labor gain from Liberal | Swing | +3.5 | |||
Notes
- ^ a b c d "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ Electoral District of King (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "2020 - Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission | Electoral Commission SA". Edbc.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 August 2022.