Electoral district of Port Adelaide

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Template:Template other 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 118.8 km² 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, Bolivar, Cavan, Dry Creek, Ethelton, Exeter, Garden Island, Gepps Cross, Gillman, Glanville, Globe Derby Park, Largs Bay, Largs North, New Port, North Haven, Osborne, Ottoway, Outer Harbor, Peterhead, Semaphore, Semaphore South, St Kilda, Taperoo, Torrens Island, Wingfield, as well as part of Rosewater.

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.

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. 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 held 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 retired in 2011, triggering a by-election held in February 2012. Susan Close retained the seat for Labor.

Members

Two members (1857–1902)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	John Hart, Sr.		1857–1859	Template:Australian party style|	John Hughes		1857–1858
Template:Australian party style|				Edward Collinson		1858–1860
Template:Australian party style|	William Owen		1860–1862	rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	Patrick Coglin		1860–1865
rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	John Hart, Sr.		1862–1866
rowspan=3 Template:Australian party style|				David Bower		1865–1870
Template:Australian party style|	Jacob Smith		1866–1868
Template:Australian party style|	Henry Hill		1868–1870
Template:Australian party style|	William Quin		1870–1871	rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	Henry Kent Hughes		1870–1875
Template:Australian party style|	John Duncan		1871–1875
rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	William Quin		1875–1880
rowspan=3 Template:Australian party style|				David Bower		1875–1887
Template:Australian party style|	John Hart, Jr.		1880–1881
rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	William Mattinson		1881–1890				Template:Australian party style|
rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|				George Hopkins		1887–1893
Template:Australian party style|	Ben Rounsevell		1890–1893
Template:Australian party style|	William Archibald	Labor	1893–1902	Template:Australian party style|	Ivor MacGillivray	Labor	1893–1902

Three members (1902–1915)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	William Archibald	Labor	1902–1910	rowspan=3 Template:Australian party style|	Ivor MacGillivray	Labor	1902–1915	Template:Australian party style|	Thomas Brooker		1902–1905
Template:Australian party style|				rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|				Henry Chesson	Labor	1905–1915
Template:Australian party style|	Thompson Green	Labor	1910–1915

Two members (1915–1938)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	John Price	Labor	1915–1925	Template:Australian party style|	Ivor MacGillivray	Labor	1915–1917
Template:Australian party style|				Template:Australian party style|		National	1917–1918
Template:Australian party style|				Template:Australian party style|	John Stanley Verran	Labor	1918–1924
Template:Australian party style|				rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	Frank Condon	Labor	1924–1927
Template:Australian party style|	John Stanley Verran	Labor	1925–1927
Template:Australian party style|	John Jonas	Labor	1927–1933	Template:Australian party style|	Thomas Thompson	Protestant Labor	1927–1930
Template:Australian party style|				rowspan=2 Template:Australian party style|	Albert Thompson	Labor	1930–1938
Template:Australian party style|	James Stephens	Labor	1933–1938

Single-member (1938–1970)
Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	James Stephens	Labor	1938–1959
Template:Australian party style|	John Ryan	Labor	1959–1970
Single-member (2002–present)
Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	Kevin Foley	Labor	2002–2011
Template:Australian party style|	Susan Close	Labor	2012–present

References

• ECSA profile for Port Adelaide: 2018
• ABC profile for Port Adelaide: 2018
• Poll Bludger profile for Port Adelaide: 2018