Electoral district of Port Adelaide

This article is about the South Australian state electorate. For the federal electorate, see Division of Port Adelaide.

Port Adelaide South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Port Adelaide highlighted Electoral district of Port Adelaide (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Dates current	1857–1970, 2002–present
MP	Susan Close
Party	Australian Labor Party (SA)
Namesake	Port Adelaide
Electors	25,700 (2014)
Area	91.3 km2 (35.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates

Port Adelaide is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after Port Adelaide because of its geographical location, it is a 91.3 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's Lefevre Peninsula and stretches east toward Adelaide's northern suburbs. It contains a mix of seaside residential areas, wasteland and industrial regions. It includes the suburbs of Cavan, Dry Creek, Gillman, Globe Derby Park, Green Fields, Largs North, Mawson Lakes, North Haven, Osborne, Ottoway, Outer Harbor, Taperoo and Wingfield as well as parts of Gepps Cross, Pooraka, Port Adelaide and Rosewater. The suburb of Port Adelaide is currently divided between the safe Labor seats of Port Adelaide and Cheltenham.

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. From 1857 until 1902 it was a two-seat multi-member district. From 1902 until 1915 it was a large three-seat multi-member district covering Adelaide's north-west to south-west suburbs – the other two metropolitan seats of 13 seats total being central Adelaide and north-east to south-west Torrens. The seat returned to two members in 1915, and became a single member district from the 1938 election onward, held continuously by Labor until the district's abolition prior to the 1970 election. The bulk of its territory was merged into the neighboring seats of Semaphore and Price. The last member for this seat's original incarnation, John Ryan, transferred to Price.

The seat was recreated in 2002, essentially as a reconfigured version of Hart (which was itself created in 1993 as a replacement for Semaphore), and has been a comfortably safe Labor seat since then. 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. A 2012 Port Adelaide by-election occurred on 11 February as a result of Foley's resignation from parliament. Susan Close retained the seat for Labor.

Members

Two members (1857–1902)
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		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		1875–1881
	John Hart, Jr.		1880–1881
	William Mattinson		1881–1893
					George Hopkins		1887–1893
	William Archibald	Labor	1893–1902		Ivor MacGillivray	Labor	1893–1902

Three members (1902–1915)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	William Archibald	Labor	1902–1910		Ivor MacGillivray	Labor	1902–1915		Thomas Brooker		1902–1905
									Henry Chesson	Labor	1905–1915
	Thompson Green	Labor	1910–1915

Two members (1915–1938)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	John Price	Labor	1915–1925		Ivor MacGillivray	Labor	1915–1917
						National	1917–1918
					John Stanley Verran	Labor	1918–1924
					Frank Condon	Labor	1924–1927
	John Stanley Verran	Labor	1925–1927
	John Jonas	Labor	1927–1933		Thomas Thompson	Independent Protestant Labor	1927–1930
					Albert Thompson	Labor	1930–1938
	James Stephens	Labor	1933–1938

Single-member (1938–1970)
Member		Party	Term
	James Stephens	Labor	1938–1959
	John Ryan	Labor	1959–1970
Single-member (2002–present)
Member		Party	Term
	Kevin Foley	Labor	2002–2011
	Susan Close	Labor	2012–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Port Adelaide

South Australian state election, 2014: Port Adelaide

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Susan Close	11,760	51.8	+2.0
	Liberal	Brad Vermeer	7,330	32.3	+5.4
	Greens	Mark Seater	1,815	8.0	+1.6
	Family First	Bruce Hambour	1,783	7.9	+2.1
Total formal votes			22,688	96.6	+0.0
Informal votes			800	3.4	−0.0
Turnout			23,488	91.4	−1.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Susan Close	13,745	60.6	−2.1
	Liberal	Brad Vermeer	8,943	39.4	+2.1
	Labor hold		Swing	−2.1

References

• ABC profile for Port Adelaide: 2014
• ECSA profile for Port Adelaide: 2014
• Poll Bludger profile for Port Adelaide: 2014

External links

• The 13 electorates from 1902 to 1915: The Adelaide Chronicle