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
Adelaide (dark green) in the city of Adelaide
Created	1903
MP	Kate Ellis
Party	Labor
Namesake	Adelaide, South Australia
Electors	102,918 (2013)
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. Adelaide is the only federation seat in South Australia which continues to regularly change hands, apart from the 23-year Labor stint during the Bob Menzies era. Despite the bellwether-like swinging tendency, unusually the only time Adelaide was obtained by an incoming government was in 1931.

In addition to pro-Liberal demographic change in the 1980s, a pre-1993 boundary redistribution added Liberal suburbs to the south of the seat and removed Labor suburbs from the north-east of the seat.^[1]^[2] Liberal Trish Worth won the seat in 1993 and held it until 2004, albeit on slender margins. Kate Ellis regained Adelaide for Labor in 2004 on a two percent two-party swing to a margin of 1.3 percent, increasing to 8.5 percent in 2007. The margin was reduced to 7.7 percent in 2010 and to 4.0 percent in 2013.

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, 2013: Adelaide
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Kate Ellis	38,650	42.26	−1.52
	Liberal	Carmen Garcia	38,463	42.06	+4.31
	Greens	Ruth Beach	9,251	10.12	−3.50
	Family First	Peter Lee	2,169	2.37	+0.18
	Palmer United	Vince Scali	1,943	2.12	+2.12
	Socialist Alliance	Liah Lazarou	980	1.07	+0.18
Total formal votes			91,456	96.04	+0.86
Informal votes			3,770	3.96	−0.86
Turnout			95,226	92.47	−0.61
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Kate Ellis	49,338	53.95	−3.57
	Liberal	Carmen Garcia	42,118	46.05	+3.57
	Labor hold		Swing	−3.57

Notes

References

External links

Electoral Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in South Australia

Adelaide Barker Boothby Grey Hindmarsh Kingston Makin Mayo Port Adelaide Sturt Wakefield Abolished: Angas (1903–34) Angas (1949–77) Bonython Hawker South Australia

Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

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

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