Division of Port Adelaide
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Port Adelaide Australian House of Representatives Division |
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Port Adelaide (dark green) in the city of Adelaide
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Created | 1949 |
MP | Mark Butler |
Party | Labor |
Namesake | Port Adelaide |
Electors | 105,204 (2013) |
Area | 181 km2 (69.9 sq mi) |
Demographic | Inner Metropolitan |
The Division of Port Adelaide is an Australian electoral division in the state of South Australia. The 181 km² seat extends from St Kilda in the north to Grange Road and Findon in the south with part of Salisbury to the east. Suburbs include Alberton, Beverley, Birkenhead, Cheltenham, Findon, Kilkenny, Largs Bay, Mansfield Park, North Haven, Ottoway, Parafield Gardens, Paralowie, Pennington, Port Adelaide, Queenstown, Rosewater, Salisbury Downs, Semaphore, Woodville, West Croydon, and part of Seaton. The seat also includes Torrens Island and Garden Island.
The seat was named after the suburb of Port Adelaide, the working port of Adelaide, with the seat of Hindmarsh moving south as a result. The seat was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 federal election. For most of its history, it has been a comfortably safe Labor seat. The closest Labor has ever come to losing it was at the 1988 by-election, where Labor candidate Rod Sawford won on a 5.2 percent two-party margin. The two-party margin currently stands, after the 2013 vote, at 14.02 percent, making it the safest Labor seat in the state. Port Adelaide remains the only electorate in South Australia to have voted Labor at every federal election in its existence. The former safe Labor seat of Bonython was abolished, with some southern parts transferred to Port Adelaide, however the majority of Bonython was transferred to Wakefield which contributed to Wakefield's change from a rural safe Liberal seat to a hybrid urban-rural notional marginal Labor seat.
A notable curiosity in recent years was that in the 1998 and 2001 federal elections, the seat was the only one in Australia where a Communist Party candidate, Michael Perth, stood for election. This was the only occasion when the Liberal Party did not preference the One Nation Party last. He achieved about one percent of the vote on each occasion.
Sawford retired at the 2007 election, which saw South Australian Labor's historically safe seat easily won by the newly endorsed Labor candidate, unionist and former head of the Left state Labor faction Mark Butler.
Members
Member | Party | Term | |
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Albert Thompson | Labor | 1949–1963 | |
Fred Birrell | Labor | 1963–1974 | |
Mick Young | Labor | 1974–1988 | |
Rod Sawford | Labor | 1988–2007 | |
Mark Butler | Labor | 2007–present |
Election results
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Mark Butler | 46,024 | 50.58 | −3.98 | |
Liberal | Nigel McKenna | 23,955 | 26.32 | +3.32 | |
Greens | Dusan Popovic | 7,834 | 8.61 | −6.51 | |
Family First | Bruce Hambour | 6,843 | 7.52 | +0.29 | |
Palmer United | Chandy Huynh | 5,227 | 5.74 | +5.74 | |
Australia First | Terry Cooksley | 1,116 | 1.23 | +1.23 | |
Total formal votes | 90,999 | 93.80 | +1.14 | ||
Informal votes | 6,020 | 6.20 | −1.14 | ||
Turnout | 97,019 | 92.17 | −1.16 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Mark Butler | 58,261 | 64.02 | −6.89 | |
Liberal | Nigel McKenna | 32,738 | 35.98 | +6.89 | |
Labor hold | Swing | −6.89 |
See also
References
- ABC profile for Port Adelaide: 2016
- ABC profile for Port Adelaide: 2013
- AEC profile for Port Adelaide: 2016
- Poll Bludger profile for Port Adelaide: 2013
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External links
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