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
Division Adelaide in South Australia, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1903
MP	Kate Ellis
Party	Labor
Namesake	Adelaide, South Australia
Electors	109,211 (2016)
Area	76 km² (29.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Adelaide is an Australian electoral division in South Australia and is named for the city of Adelaide, South Australia's capital. 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, Northgate, Norwood, Parkside, Prospect, Rose Park, St Peters, Toorak Gardens, Unley and Walkerville.

The division of Adelaide was one of seven single-member seats established when the seven-member statewide Division of South Australia was abolished following the inaugural 1901 election. For the first 40 years after Federation, it was one of the few Federation seats in the state that regularly changed hands between the Australian Labor Party and the conservative parties. Despite the bellwether-like swinging tendency, unusually the only time Adelaide was obtained by an incoming government was in 1931.

However, Labor held it for all but six years from 1943 to 1993, including a 23-year Labor hold during the Robert Menzies era. For most of the time from 1943 to 1987, it was a fairly safe Labor seat. Labor's hold on the seat loosened slightly in the late 1980s due to pro-Liberal demographic change; it was briefly lost to the Liberals at a 1988 by-election, but regained in 1990.

The seat had only originally represented the Adelaide city centre and nearby inner north suburbs up to Regency Road in Prospect for most of its first century. However, a pre-1993 boundary redistribution pushed the seat to the south,^[1]^[2] adding Liberal-friendly suburbs to the south of the Adelaide city centre for the first time while removing Labor suburbs in the north-east, resulting in Liberal Trish Worth holding the seat for eleven years, albeit on slender margins.

Kate Ellis regained Adelaide for Labor in 2004 on a 1.3 percent margin from a two percent two-party swing. Ellis has held the seat since, with the margin increasing to 8.5 percent in 2007, before falling to 7.7 percent in 2010 and to 4.0 percent in 2013, before increasing to 4.7 percent in 2016.

In 2016, in the presence of Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) candidates in all eleven South Australian seats, both major parties recorded a suppressed primary vote, resulting in a reduction of the major party primary vote in all but one South Australian seat. Though Labor picked up a two-party swing in all eleven, the NXT presence produced a result where Kingston ended up as the only South Australian seat to record an increase to a major party primary vote. Additionally, Adelaide was the only seat of the state's eleven where the Greens vote increased, while also producing both the highest Green vote and the lowest NXT vote in the state. This is in contrast to 2007 where the Xenophon Senate ticket polled higher in Adelaide than in most other seats.^[3]

Members

	Party	Term
Charles Kingston	Protectionist	1903–1908
Ernest Roberts	Labour	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, 2016: Adelaide^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	David Colovic	34,809	36.43	−5.63
	Labor	Kate Ellis	34,325	35.93	−6.33
	Xenophon	Joe Hill	12,283	12.86	+12.86
	Greens	Sophie Guy	9,973	10.44	+0.32
	Family First	Adrian Rivish	1,832	1.92	−0.45
	Animal Justice	Matt Tidswell	1,292	1.35	+1.35
	Liberal Democrats	Tyrone Lock	1,030	1.08	+1.08
Total formal votes			95,544	96.84	+0.80
Informal votes			3,118	3.16	−0.80
Turnout			98,662	90.34	−2.13
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Kate Ellis	52,219	54.65	+0.70
	Liberal	David Colovic	43,325	45.35	−0.70
	Labor hold		Swing	+0.70

References

Notes

↑ ABC profile for Adelaide: 2013
↑ Historic electoral maps: Australian election statistics - compiled by multiple sources
↑ 2007 SA Senate vote by seat: AEC
↑ Adelaide, SA, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

Electoral Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in South Australia

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Coordinates: 34°54′25″S 138°36′07″E / 34.907°S 138.602°E / -34.907; 138.602

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