Electoral district of Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide Australian Labor Party (SA) | |||||||||||||||
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Namesake | Port Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
Electors | 27,895 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
Area | 118.75 km2 (45.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°48′13″S 138°33′15″E / 34.80361°S 138.55417°E | ||||||||||||||
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Footnotes | |||||||||||||||
Electoral District map[2] |
Port Adelaide is a single-member
Port Adelaide has had three incarnations as a South Australian electoral district.
Port Adelaide was the name of an electoral district of the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council from 1851 until its abolition in 1857.[3]
From 1857 until 1902 it was a two-seat
The seat was recreated in 2002, essentially as a reconfigured version of Hart (which was itself created in 1993 as a replacement for Semaphore). Like its previous incarnation, it is a comfortably safe Labor seat. The member for Hart, deputy premier and state treasurer Kevin Foley, followed most of his constituents into the recreated seat and held it easily. At the 2006 election, Foley increased his margin from 21.7 percent to 25.7 percent, and gained a majority in all booths. Foley retired in 2011, triggering a by-election held in February 2012. Susan Close retained the seat for Labor.
Members
Two members (1857–1902) | |||||||
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Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
John Hart, Sr. | 1857–1859 | John Hughes | 1857–1858 | ||||
Edward Collinson | 1858–1860 | ||||||
William Owen | 1860–1862 | Patrick Coglin | 1860–1865 | ||||
John Hart, Sr. | 1862–1866 | ||||||
David Bower | 1865–1870 | ||||||
Jacob Smith
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1866–1868 | ||||||
Henry Hill | 1868–1870 | ||||||
William Quin | 1870–1871 | Henry Kent Hughes | 1870–1875 | ||||
John Duncan | 1871–1875 | ||||||
William Quin | 1875–1880 | ||||||
David Bower | 1875–1887 | ||||||
John Hart, Jr.
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1880–1881 | ||||||
William Mattinson | 1881–1890 | ||||||
George Hopkins | 1887–1893 | ||||||
Ben Rounsevell | 1890–1893 | ||||||
William Archibald | Labor
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1893–1902 | Ivor MacGillivray | Labor
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1893–1902 |
Three members (1902–1915) | |||||||||||
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Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
William Archibald | Labor
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1902–1910 | Ivor MacGillivray | Labor
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1902–1915 | Thomas Brooker | 1902–1905 | ||||
Henry Chesson | Labor
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1905–1915 | |||||||||
Thompson Green | Labor
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1910–1915 |
Two members (1915–1938) | |||||||
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Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
John Price | Labor
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1915–1925 | Ivor MacGillivray | Labor
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1915–1917 | ||
National | 1917–1918 | ||||||
John Stanley Verran | Labor
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1918–1924 | |||||
Frank Condon | Labor
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1924–1927 | |||||
John Stanley Verran | Labor
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1925–1927 | |||||
John Jonas | Labor
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1927–1933 | Thomas Thompson | Protestant Labor
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1927–1930 | ||
Albert Thompson | Labor
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1930–1938 | |||||
James Stephens | Labor
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1933–1938 |
Single-member (1938–1970) | |||
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Member | Party | Term | |
James Stephens | Labor
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1938–1959 | |
John Ryan | Labor
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1959–1970 | |
Single-member (2002–present) | |||
Member | Party | Term | |
Kevin Foley | Labor
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2002–2011 | |
Susan Close | Labor
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2012–present |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Susan Close | 14,074 | 58.3 | +10.4 | |
Liberal | Chad McLaren | 5,448 | 22.6 | +4.0 | |
Greens | Jim Moss | 2,471 | 10.2 | +4.4 | |
Family First | Lucia Snelling | 1,204 | 5.0 | +5.0 | |
Animal Justice | Adrian Romeo | 945 | 3.9 | +0.0 | |
Total formal votes | 24,142 | 96.6 | |||
Informal votes | 850 | 3.4 | |||
Turnout | 24,992 | 88.1 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Susan Close | 17,335 | 71.8 | +5.0 | |
Liberal | Chad McLaren | 6,807 | 28.2 | −5.0 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +5.0 |
Notes
- ^ West to east: Lee, Cheltenham, Croydon, and Enfield
- ^ Electoral District of Port Adelaide (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836 to 2009" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- ^ "Parliamentary Electorates". The Adelaide Chronicle. 5 April 1902. p. 33 – via Trove.