Cheltenham is a single-member
electoral district for the
South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.
Overview
The House of Assembly was creat ...
. Named after the suburb of the same name, it is a 17.5 kmĀ² suburban electorate in
Adelaide
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's north-west, taking in the suburbs of
Albert Park,
Alberton,
Beverley
Beverley is a market town, market and minster (church), minster town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, of which it is the county town. The town centre is located south-east of York's centre ...
,
Cheltenham,
Findon,
Hendon,
Pennington,
Queenstown,
St Clair,
Woodville,
Woodville North
Woodville North is a north-western suburb of Adelaide 10 km from the Adelaide city centre, in the state of South Australia, Australia and falls under the City of Charles Sturt. The post code for Woodville North is 5012. It is adjacent to ...
,
Woodville Park,
Woodville South,
Woodville West, and part of
Rosewater. The Cheltenham electorate is inside the federal-level electorate of
Port Adelaide.
Cheltenham was created in the 1998 electoral distribution as a safe
Labor
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the la ...
seat, replacing the abolished seat of
Price
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. In August 2001 the 17-year Price incumbent
Murray De Laine was defeated in a factional preselection in favour of future premier
Jay Weatherill
Jay Wilson Weatherill (born 3 April 1964) is an Australian politician who was the 45th Premier of South Australia, serving from 21 October 2011 until 19 March 2018. Weatherill represented the House of Assembly seat of Cheltenham as a member of ...
. De Laine subsequently contested the
2002 election as an independent with 9.7% of the primary vote.
In the 2016 electoral boundary redistribution, the suburbs of Beverley and Woodville Park were added to the seat from
Croydon district, while Athol Park was lost to Croydon district, Royal Park was lost to
Lee district and portions of Port Adelaide and Rosewater shifted into
Port Adelaide district.
The current member is
Joe Szakacs
Joseph Karl Szakacs (; born 1982) is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He is a Labor Party member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Cheltenham since the 2019 Cheltenham by-election. ...
of the
Labor Party. Szakacs was elected in the
2019 Cheltenham state by-election on 9 February, replacing former premier
Jay Weatherill
Jay Wilson Weatherill (born 3 April 1964) is an Australian politician who was the 45th Premier of South Australia, serving from 21 October 2011 until 19 March 2018. Weatherill represented the House of Assembly seat of Cheltenham as a member of ...
.
Cheltenham and Enfield by-elections: ECSA
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Members for Cheltenham
Election results
Notes
References
ECSA profile for Cheltenham: 2018
ABC profile for Cheltenham: 2018
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Electoral districts of South Australia
1998 establishments in Australia