Division 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. Adelaide is the only federation seat in South Australia which continues to regularly change hands, apart from the 23-year Labor stint during the Menzies era. Despite the bellwether-like swinging tendency, unusually the only time Adelaide was obtained by an incoming government was in 1931.
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, in addition to pro-Liberal demographic change in the 1980s, a pre-1993 boundary redistribution added Liberal suburbs to the south of the Adelaide city centre for the first time 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. The Labor margin increased to 8.5 percent in 2007, reduced to 7.7 percent in 2010 and to 4.0 percent in 2013.
Members
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | David Colovic | 29,259 | 36.80 | -5.26 | |
| Labor | Kate Ellis | 29,003 | 36.48 | −5.78 | |
| Xenophon | Joe Hill | 9,817 | 12.35 | +12.35 | |
| Greens | Sophie Guy | 8,138 | 10.24 | +0.12 | |
| Family First | Adrian Rivish | 1,466 | 1.84 | -0.53 | |
| Animal Justice | Matt Tidswell | 1,013 | 1.27 | +1.27 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Tyrone Lock | 815 | 1.03 | +1.03 | |
| Total formal votes | 79,511 | 96.96 | +0.92 | ||
| Informal votes | 2,492 | 3.04 | −0.92 | ||
| Turnout | 82,003 | ||||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Kate Ellis | 43,461 | 54.66 | +0.71 | |
| Liberal | David Colovic | 36,050 | 45.34 | -0.71 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +0.71 | |||
See also
References
- ABC profile for Adelaide: 2016
- Poll Bludger profile for Adelaide: 2016
- AEC profile for Adelaide: 2016
