Division of South Australia

South Australia Australian House of Representatives Division
Created	1901
Abolished	1903
Namesake	South Australia

The Division of South Australia was an Australian Electoral Division covering South Australia. The seven-member statewide seat existed from the inaugural 1901 election until the 1903 election. Each elector casted seven votes. Unlike most of the other states, South Australia had not been split into individual single-member electorates. The other exception was the five-member Division of Tasmania. The statewide seats were abolished at a redistribution conducted two months prior to the 1903 election and were subsequently replaced with single-member divisions, one per displaced member, with each elector now casting a single vote.

Members

Sorted in descending order of votes received

Member		Party	Term
	Charles Kingston	Protectionist	1901–1903
	Sir Langdon Bonython	Protectionist	1901–1903
	Paddy Glynn	Free Trade	1901–1903
	(Sir) Frederick Holder	Free Trade	1901–1903
	Lee Batchelor	Labor	1901–1903
	Vaiben Louis Solomon	Free Trade	1901–1903
	Alexander Poynton	Free Trade*	1901–1903

*Though labelled a Free Trader, Poynton was an Australasian National League (National Defence League) candidate.^[1]

The Division was split into seven single-member seats at the 1903 election – Adelaide (Kingston, Protectionist), Angas (Glynn, Free Trade), Barker (Bonython, Protectionist), Boothby (Batchelor, Labour), Grey (Poynton, Labour), Hindmarsh (Hutchison, Labour) and Wakefield (Holder, Independent).

Election results

Elected members in bold. South Australia elected seven members, with each elector casting seven votes.

Australian federal election, 1901: South Australia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Protectionist	Charles Kingston	41,477	65.9	+65.9
	Protectionist	Sir Langdon Bonython	39,434	62.7	+62.7
	Free Trade	Paddy Glynn	37,450	59.5	+59.5
	Free Trade	Frederick Holder	37,424	59.5	+59.5
	Labour	Lee Batchelor	31,614	50.3	+50.3
	Free Trade	Vaiben Louis Solomon	27,030	43.0	+43.0
	Free Trade	Alexander Poynton	25,864	41.1	+41.1
	Labour	Thomas Price	24,019	38.2	+38.2
	Protectionist	Robert Caldwell	21,102	33.6	+33.6
	Free Trade	Henry Baker	15,760	25.1	+25.1
	Free Trade	Crawford Vaughan	11,874	18.9	+18.9
	Free Trade	Richard Wood	11,054	17.6	+17.6
	Free Trade	Thomas Webb	9,357	14.9	+14.9
	Protectionist	John Cooke	8,947	14.2	+14.2
	Protectionist	John O'Connell	3,152	5.0	+5.0
	Protectionist	George Wyld	2,858	4.6	+4.6
	Independent	George Mitchell	1,745	2.8	+2.8
Total formal votes			350,161	98.4
Informal votes			985	1.6
Turnout			62,982	40.8

References

1. Alexander Poynton: ADB

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