Electoral district of Adelaide

The four-member electoral district of Adelaide was created by the Constitution Act Amendment Act, 1901 for the 1902 election from the districts of East Adelaide, West Adelaide and North Adelaide; together with the three-member Port Adelaide and five-member Torrens, the three districts with a total of 12-members covered the whole of the metropolitan area in the 42 member house.^[2] The district had four members through to 1915.

Adelaide became a three-member district from the 1915 election, and then changed from a multi-member to single-member district upon the introduction of the Playmander from the 1938 election.^[3]

For most of the next half-century, the electorate was comfortably safe for the Labor Party. A significant redistribution in 1983 saw the Labor two-party vote reduced from 66 percent to 47 percent, transforming it into a notional marginal Liberal electorate. 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 highest Liberal vote in Adelaide occurred at the landslide 1993 election, with the Liberal two-party vote rising to a safe 64.1 percent. However, it once again became a marginal Liberal seat at the 1997 election.

After the redistribution ahead of the 2002 election made the electorate even more marginal, Armitage tried to transfer to the safer Liberal electorate 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 two-party swing of over 14 percent, turning it from safe Labor to marginal Liberal. Despite a −1.8 percent two-party swing, the Liberals retained Adelaide at the 2014 election on a 52.4 percent two-party vote.

The 2016 electoral redistribution added the rest of Collinswood to the electorate, and moved the electorate's northern boundary from Regency Road to several blocks south of Regency Road, removing a significant amount of northern Prospect. This increased the Liberal margin from 2.4 percent to an estimated 3.0 percent. The draft of the 2016 Redistribution Report had proposed moving the Liberal-voting suburbs of Walkerville and Gilberton to a neighbouring electorate, but Liberal incumbent Rachel Sanderson proceeded with a concerted campaign, organising the mass letter-box distribution of a pro forma document in the two suburbs, which aimed for residents to use the pro forma document to submit their objection to the commission. Of a record 130 total submissions received in response to the overall draft redistribution, over three-quarters (about 100) were from the two letter-boxed suburbs, Walkerville and Gilberton, which resulted in the proposal not appearing in the final redistribution.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

Although Sanderson suffered a further 2.0 percent two-party swing, she narrowly retained Adelaide at the 2018 election with a 51.0 percent two-party vote. With the Liberals winning government after 16 years in opposition, Adelaide became the government's second most marginal seat, behind only King. The Greens achieved their highest vote in an electorate at the 2018 election in Adelaide.^[11]

Sanderson was defeated at the 2022 South Australian state election by Labor’s Lucy Hood.^[12]

Members for Adelaide

Four-member electorate (1902–1915)
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
	Lewis Cohen	National League	1902–1906		William David Ponder	Labor	1905–1915		Ernest Roberts	Labor	1905–1908		James Zimri Sellar	Labor	1905–1906
	Bill Denny	Labor	1906–1915										James Zimri Sellar	Labor	1905–1906
													Reginald Blundell	Labor	1907–1915
									Edward Alfred Anstey	Labor	1908–1915		Reginald Blundell	Labor	1907–1915

Three-member electorate (1915–1938)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Bill Denny	Labor	1915–1933		Reginald Blundell	Labor	1915–1917		John Gunn	Labor	1915–1917
					Reginald Blundell	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
		Parliamentary Labor	1931–1933						Martin Collaton	Labor	1932–1933
	Doug Bardolph	Lang Labor	1933–1934		Bob Dale	Lang Labor	1933–1933		Tom Howard	Lang Labor	1933–1933
		Lang Labor	1933–1934			SA Lang Labor	1933–1934			SA Lang Labor	1933–1934
		Labor	1934–1935			Labor	1934–1938			Labor	1934–1938
		Independent	1935–1938			Labor	1934–1938			Labor	1934–1938

	Party	Term
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
Mike Duigan	Labor	1985–1989
Michael Armitage	Liberal	1989–2002
Jane Lomax-Smith	Labor	2002–2010
Rachel Sanderson	Liberal	2010–2022
Lucy Hood	Labor	2022–present

Election results

2022 South Australian state election: Adelaide
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Lucy Hood	9,477	40.6	+4.9
	Liberal	Rachel Sanderson	9,273	39.8	−7.4
	Greens	Sean Cullen-MacAskill	3,146	13.5	+0.8
	Australian Family	Robert Walker	545	2.3	+2.3
	Animal Justice	Deanna Carbone	502	2.2	+2.2
	Real Change	Tom Birdseye	380	1.6	+1.6
Total formal votes			23,323	97.6
Informal votes			569	2.4
Turnout			23,892	86.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Lucy Hood	13,097	56.2	+7.1
	Liberal	Rachel Sanderson	10,226	43.8	−7.1
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+7.1

Notes

^ Electoral District of Adelaide (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Parliamentary Electorates". The Adelaide Chronicle. 5 April 1902. p. 33 – via Trove.
^ "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836 to 2009" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
^ "Submissions – (Downloadable list of all 130 submissions to the 2016 Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission)". Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission.
^ "Adelaide residents compared to 'Hyacinth Bucket' for lashing out at proposed electoral shift". ABC News. Australia. 22 September 2016.
^ "Patrician burghers of Adelaide lament: 'Won't someone think of the rotary clubs?'". InDaily. 22 September 2016.
^ "Libs' last-ditch bid for "electoral fairness"". InDaily. 28 September 2016.
^ "MPs make submissions into South Australian boundary changes". The Advertiser. 22 September 2016.
^ "2016 Draft Report" (PDF). Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. 15 August 2016.
^ "2016 Final Report" (PDF). Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. 8 December 2016.
^ Adelaide, 2018 SA election, Antony Green, ABC
^ "Adelaide (Key Seat) - SA Electorate, Candidates, Results". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

References

v t e Electoral districts of the South Australian House of Assembly
Labor (27)	Adelaide Badcoe Cheltenham Croydon Davenport 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
Vacant (1)	Dunstan

Former electoral districts of South Australia

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