Electoral district of Hartley

For the former New South Wales state electorate, see Electoral district of Hartley (New South Wales).

Hartley South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Hartley highlighted Electoral district of Hartley (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1977
MP	Vincent Tarzia
Party	Liberal Party of Australia (SA)
Namesake	John Anderson Hartley
Electors	23,921 (2014)
Area	15.5 km2 (6.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates

Hartley is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after John Anderson Hartley, a public servant responsible for creating much of South Australia's public education system. It is a 15.5 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's east, taking in the suburbs of Auldana, Campbelltown, Felixstow, Glynde, Hectorville, Kensington Gardens, Magill, Rosslyn Park and Tranmere, as well as parts of Paradise and Payneham.

Hartley was created at the electoral redistribution of 1976 as a marginal Labor seat, and was first contested at the 1977 state election by then Deputy Premier Des Corcoran, who had moved from the more marginal seat of Coles after a redistribution erased Labor's majority there. He was succeeded by Terry Groom. The 1991 redistribution erased Groom's majority and made the seat marginally Liberal. Believing this made Hartley unwinnable, Groom tried to gain preselection for a safer seat, only to be turned down. He resigned from the Labor Party and served out the rest of his term as an independent. The seat subsequently fell to Groom's 1989 challenger, Joe Scalzi at the 1993 election amid that year's massive Liberal landslide. Scalzi was nearly defeated at the 1997 election, in which his margin was reduced to a paper-thin 0.7 percent, making Hartley the Liberals' most marginal seat--a status that remained unchanged in 2002 as Labor won government. Scalzi was swept away amidst the landslide Labor victory at the 2006 election, conceding defeat to Labor's Grace Portolesi, and failed to regain the seat at the 2010 election. A redistribution saw Labor's majority reduced from an already-marginal 2.3 percent to a paper-thin 0.1 percent. Liberal Vincent Tarzia defeated Labor's Portolesi at the 2014 election.

Members for Hartley

Member		Party	Term
	Des Corcoran	Labor	1977–1982
	Terry Groom	Labor	1982–1991
		Independent	1991–1993
	Joe Scalzi	Liberal	1993–2006
	Grace Portolesi	Labor	2006–2014
	Vincent Tarzia	Liberal	2014–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Hartley

South Australian state election, 2014: Hartley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Vincent Tarzia	10,118	47.3	+4.3
	Labor	Grace Portolesi	8,539	39.9	−1.7
	Greens	Paul Birkwood	1,804	8.4	+0.9
	Family First	David Maegraith	939	4.4	+1.2
Total formal votes			21,400	97.3	+1.2
Informal votes			595	2.7	−1.2
Turnout			21,995	91.9	−0.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Vincent Tarzia	11,217	52.4	+2.6
	Labor	Grace Portolesi	10,183	47.6	−2.6
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+2.6

References

• ABC profile for Hartley: 2014
• ECSA profile for Hartley: 2014
• Poll Bludger profile for Hartley: 2014