Division of Adelaide

This article is about the Australian federal electorate. For the South Australian state electorate, see Electoral district of Adelaide. For the historical South Australian state electorate, see Electoral district of City of Adelaide.

Adelaide Australian House of Representatives Division
300px Adelaide (dark green) in the city of Adelaide
Created	1903
MP	Kate Ellis
Party	Labor
Namesake	Adelaide, South Australia
Electors	102,918 (2013)
Area	76 km2 (29.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Adelaide is an Australian electoral division in South Australia. The 76 km² seat is centred on the Adelaide city centre and spans from Grand Junction Road in the north to Cross Road in the south and from Portrush Road in the east to South Road in the west, taking in suburbs including Ashford, Clarence Park, Enfield, Goodwood, Kent Town, Keswick, Kilburn, Maylands, North Adelaide, Northgate, Norwood, Parkside, Prospect, Rose Park, St Peters, Toorak Gardens, Unley and Walkerville.

The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named for the city of Adelaide, South Australia's capital. The seat was historically a fairly safe seat for the Australian Labor Party. However demographic change and boundary redistributions adding areas from the east and south of the city and removing areas from the north of the city saw the seat become marginal, and it was held by the Liberal Party from 1993 to 2004. Kate Ellis regained Adelaide for Labor in 2004 on a two percent two-party swing to a margin of 1.3 percent, increasing to 8.5 percent in 2007. The margin was reduced to 7.7 percent in 2010 and to 4.0 percent in 2013.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Charles Kingston	Protectionist	1903–1908
	Ernest Roberts	Labor	1908–1913
	Edwin Yates	Labor	1914–1919
	Reginald Blundell	Nationalist	1919–1922
	Edwin Yates	Labor	1922–1931
	Fred Stacey	United Australia	1931–1943
	Cyril Chambers	Labor	1943–1957
		Independent	1957–1958
		Labor	1958–1958
	Joe Sexton	Labor	1958–1966
	Andrew Jones	Liberal	1966–1969
	Chris Hurford	Labor	1969–1988
	Mike Pratt	Liberal	1988–1990
	Bob Catley	Labor	1990–1993
	Trish Worth	Liberal	1993–2004
	Kate Ellis	Labor	2004–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Adelaide

Australian federal election, 2013: Adelaide

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Kate Ellis	38,650	42.26	−1.52
	Liberal	Carmen Garcia	38,463	42.06	+4.31
	Greens	Ruth Beach	9,251	10.12	−3.50
	Family First	Peter Lee	2,169	2.37	+0.18
	Palmer United	Vince Scali	1,943	2.12	+2.12
	Socialist Alliance	Liah Lazarou	980	1.07	+0.18
Total formal votes			91,456	96.04	+0.86
Informal votes			3,770	3.96	−0.86
Turnout			95,226	92.47	−0.61
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Kate Ellis	49,338	53.95	−3.57
	Liberal	Carmen Garcia	42,118	46.05	+3.57
	Labor hold		Swing	−3.57

References

• ABC profile for Adelaide: 2013
• AEC profile for Adelaide: 2013
• Poll Bludger profile for Adelaide: 2013

External links

• SA boundary map, 2001: AEC
• SA boundary map, 1984: Atlas SA