Electoral district of Port Adelaide
| Port Adelaide South Australia—House of Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1857–1970, 2002–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Cheyne Rich | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Port Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 28,778 (2026) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 84.3 km2 (32.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°48′13″S 138°33′15″E / 34.80361°S 138.55417°E | ||||||||||||||
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| Electoral District Profile and map[2] | |||||||||||||||
Port Adelaide is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after Port Adelaide, which it surrounds, it is a suburban and industrial 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. In addition to its namesake suburb of Port Adelaide, the district includes the suburbs of Birkenhead, Cavan, Dry Creek, Ethelton, Exeter, Garden Island, Gillman, Glanville, Largs Bay, Largs North, New Port, North Haven, Osborne, Ottoway, Outer Harbor, Peterhead, Semaphore, Taperoo, Torrens Island, Wingfield, as well as part of Rosewater.
History
[edit]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.[3]
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 and western suburbs; together with the four-member Adelaide and five-member Torrens, the three districts with a total of 12-members covered the whole of the metropolitan area in the 42 member house.[4] The district returned to two members in 1915, and became a single member district from the 1938 election onward. It was held without interruption by Labor until the district's abolition prior to the 1970 election, and for most of that time was one of Labor's safest seats. The bulk of its territory was split between the neighbouring 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). Like its previous incarnation, it is a comfortably safe Labor seat. The member for Hart, deputy premier and state treasurer Kevin Foley, followed most of his constituents into the recreated seat and won 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. Foley resigned in December 2011 after serving a total of 18 years in the lower house, triggering a by-election held in February 2012. Susan Close retained the seat for Labor, and held it for 14 years, until her retirement at the end of her term in March 2026.[5]
2020 redistribution
[edit]The following boundary changes occurred in the 2020 redistribution, due to increasing voter enrollments since 2012, putting the electorate 9.1% over the Quota Variance - Bolivar, Globe Derby Park and St Kilda were transferred to the Electoral district of Taylor and Gepps Cross to Electoral district of Enfield.[6]
2024 redistribution
[edit]The only boundary change following the 2024 redistribution, for the 2026 Election, was the lost of Semaphore South to the Electoral district of Lee.
Members
[edit]| Two members (1857–1902) | |||||||
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| 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 | 1875–1887 | ||||||
| John Hart Jr. | 1880–1881 | ||||||
| William Mattinson | 1881–1890 | ||||||
| George Hopkins | 1887–1893 | ||||||
| Ben Rounsevell | 1890–1893 | ||||||
| William Archibald | Labor | 1893–1902 | Ivor MacGillivray | Labor | 1893–1902 | ||
| Three members (1902–1915) | |||||||||||
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| 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) | |||||||
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| 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 | Protestant Labor | 1927–1930 | ||
| Albert Thompson | Labor | 1930–1938 | |||||
| James Stephens | Labor | 1933–1938 | |||||
| Single-member (1938–1970) | |||
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| 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 | 2012–2026 | |
| Cheyne Rich | Labor | 2026–present | |
Election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labor | Cheyne Rich | 9,312 | 39.3 | −19.1 | |
| One Nation | Joel Hendrie | 5,080 | 21.4 | +21.4 | |
| Independent | Claire Boan | 3,097 | 13.1 | +13.1 | |
| Greens | Hayden Shaw | 2,425 | 10.2 | +0.0 | |
| Liberal | Scott Anderson | 1,724 | 7.3 | −15.3 | |
| Legalise Cannabis | Sallyann Keen | 511 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
| Independent | Gary Johanson | 446 | 1.9 | +1.9 | |
| Independent | Anne McMenamin | 341 | 1.4 | +1.4 | |
| Family First | Lucia Snelling | 332 | 1.4 | −3.6 | |
| Fair Go | Galina Brunoli | 253 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Australian Family | Tom Day | 135 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| United Voice | Aaron Machado | 44 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 23,700 | 92.8 | −3.8 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,848 | 7.2 | +3.8 | ||
| Turnout | 25,548 | 88.8 | +0.7 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Cheyne Rich | 15,272 | 64.4 | −7.4 | |
| One Nation | Joel Hendrie | 8,428 | 35.6 | +35.6 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | −7.4 | |||
Notes
[edit]- ↑ West to east: Lee, Cheltenham, Croydon, and Enfield
- ↑ Port Adelaide (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- ↑ "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836 to 2009" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- ↑ "Parliamentary Electorates". The Adelaide Chronicle. 5 April 1902. p. 33 – via Trove.
- ↑ "Kyam Maher to be deputy premier after Susan Close, Stephen Mullighan to quit politics". ABC News. 18 September 2025.
- ↑ "Final Redistribution Report". Edbc.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 28 August 2026.
- ↑ "Port Adelaide - SA Election 2026". ABC News.