Electoral district of Flinders

This article is about the electorate in South Australia. For the former Queensland electorate, see Electoral district of Flinders (Queensland). For the Federal electorate in Victoria, see Division of Flinders.

Flinders South Australia—House of Assembly
Electoral district of Flinders (green) in South Australia
State	South Australia
Created	1857
MP	Peter Treloar
Party	Liberal Party of Australia (SA)
Namesake	Matthew Flinders
Electors	23,421 (2014)
Area	61,139 km² (23,605.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural

Flinders is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 61,139 km² coastal rural electorate encompassing the Eyre Peninsula and the coast along the Nullarbor Plain, based in and around the towns of Port Lincoln and Ceduna. The seat was expanded in 2002 to include a western strip of land all the way to the Western Australia border.

Flinders is the only one of the original 17 electorates to be contested at every election.^[1] Created as a single-member electorate in 1857, it was a dual-member electorate from 1862 to 1875, from 1884 to 1902 and again from 1915 to 1938, a three-member electorate from 1875 to 1884 and again 1902 to 1915.^[1] Flinders was also the name of an electoral district of the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council from 1851 until its abolition in 1857.^[1]

A single-member seat since 1938, Edward Craigie of the Single Tax League held the seat. Though typically considered a safe rural conservative seat, Labor came close with a 46.5 percent two-party vote at the 1962 election. The seat fell to the rival conservative SA Nationals on one occasion, with Peter Blacker representing Flinders from 1973 to 1993, but he was defeated when Kangaroo Island was briefly included in Flinders, and without the advantages of incumbency, was unable to regain his seat when it was removed four years later. It has since remained a safe Liberal seat, currently the safest on a 29.2 percent margin.

Members for Flinders

Member		Party	Term
	Marshall MacDermott		1857–1859
	W. J. Browne		1860–1862

	Term	Member		Party	Term
Alfred Watts	1862–1866		Charles Lindsay		1862–1865
Alfred Watts	1862–1866		John Williams		1865–1868
Augustine Stow	1866–1868		John Williams		1865–1868
Alfred Watts	1868–1875		W. R. Mortlock		1868–1870
		Hampton Gleeson		1870–1871
		W. R. Mortlock		1871–1875

	Term		Term	Member		Party	Term
P. B. Coglin	1875–1881	John Williams	1875–1878		Ebenezer Cooke		1875–1882
P. B. Coglin	1875–1881	W. R. Mortlock	1878–1884
Andrew Tennant	1881–1884
Andrew Tennant	1881–1884			P. B. Coglin		1882–1884

	Party	Term		Term
Andrew Tennant		1884–1887	John Moule	1884–1896
William Horn		1887–1893
Alexander Poynton	Labor	1893–1901
			W. T. Mortlock	1896–1899
			David McKenzie	1899–1902
W. T. Mortlock		1901–1902	David McKenzie	1899–1902

	Party	Term	Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
Richard Foster	National League	1902–1904		David McKenzie		1902–1905		Thomas Burgoyne	National League	1902–1904
	Farmers and Producers	1904–1906		David McKenzie		1902–1905	Farmers and Producers		1904–1906
	Farmers and Producers	1904–1906	A. H. Inkster		1905–1906		Farmers and Producers		1904–1906
John Travers	Liberal and Democratic	1906–1910	A. H. Inkster		Liberal and Democratic	1906–1907			Liberal and Democratic	1906–1910
John Travers	Liberal and Democratic	1906–1910	E. H. Warren	Farmers and Producers	1907–1910				Liberal and Democratic	1906–1910
James O'Loghlin	Labor	1910–1912		James Moseley	Liberal Union	1910–1915			Liberal Union	1910–1915
John Travers	Liberal Union	1912–1915		James Moseley	Liberal Union	1910–1915			Liberal Union	1910–1915

	Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
John Travers	Liberal Union	1915–1918		James Moseley	Liberal Union	1915–1923
John Chapman	Country	1918–1924			Liberal Union	1915–1923
John Chapman	Country	1918–1924	Liberal Federation		1923–1933
John O'Connor	Labor	1924–1927
Edward Coles	Country Party	1927–1928
Edward Coles	Liberal Federation	1928–1930
Edward Craigie	Single Tax	1930–1938
					Liberal and Country	1932–1933
				Arthur Christian	Liberal and Country	1933–1938

	Party	Term
Edward Craigie	Single Tax	1938–1941
Rex Pearson	Liberal and Country	1941–1951
Glen Pearson	Liberal and Country	1951–1970
John Carnie	Liberal and Country	1970–1973
Peter Blacker	Nationals SA	1973–1993
Liz Penfold	Liberal	1993–2010
Peter Treloar	Liberal	2010–present

Election results

South Australian state election, 2014: Flinders^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Peter Treloar	14,994	72.0	+14.0
	Labor	Mathew Deane	3,214	15.4	−0.1
	Family First	Grant Wilson	1,313	6.3	+1.5
	Greens	Felicity Wright	1,299	6.2	−0.7
Total formal votes			20,820	97.6	+0.4
Informal votes			505	2.4	−0.4
Turnout			21,325	91.1	−0.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Peter Treloar	16,480	79.2	+3.0
	Labor	Mathew Deane	4,340	20.8	−3.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	+3.0

Notes

1 2 3 "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836 to 2009" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia.
↑ 2014 State Election Results – Flinders, ECSA.
↑ 2014 State Election Results – Flinders, ABC.

References

External links

The 13 electorates from 1902 to 1915: The Adelaide Chronicle

Electoral districts of South Australia

Former electoral districts of South Australia

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