Electoral district of Norwood

Norwood
South Australia—House of Assembly
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

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

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

The Electoral Commission of South Australia's 2012 redistribution included renaming the seat to Dunstan which took effect from 15 March 2014.^[1]^[2]

Members for Norwood

^ "Dunstan could become a seat". NineMSN. 31 May 2012. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
^ "2012 Final Redistribution Order" (pdf). Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission Reports. Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 3 July 2013.

Labor (28)		Adelaide Badcoe Cheltenham Croydon Davenport Dunstan Elder Elizabeth Enfield Florey Gibson Giles Hurtle Vale Kaurna King Lee Light Mawson Newland Playford Port Adelaide Ramsay Reynell Taylor Torrens Waite West Torrens Wright
Liberal (15)	Black Bragg Chaffey Colton Finniss Flinders Frome Hammond Hartley Heysen MacKillop Morialta Morphett Schubert Unley
Independent (4)	Kavel Mount Gambier Narungga Stuart