Florey is a single-member
electoral district
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for the
South Australian House of Assembly
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Overview
The House of Assembly was creat ...
. It is named after scientist
Howard Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (24 September 189821 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in ...
, who was responsible for the development of
penicillin
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. It is a suburban electorate in
Adelaide
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's north-east, taking in the suburbs of
Ingle Farm
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,
Modbury North
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,
Para Vista,
Pooraka,
Valley View, and
Walkley Heights, as well as parts of
Modbury
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and
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.
Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a notionally safe
Labor
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electorate, and was first contested at the
1970 election. Mostly it was safely held by the Labor party until the
1989 election when it became the minority Labor government's most marginal electorate. Florey was one of the first electorates to fall to the
Liberals at the
1993 election landslide. It was regained by Labor's
Frances Bedford
Frances Ellen Bedford (born 5 November 1953) is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Florey from 1997 state election until 2022, first for the Labor Party and from 2017 as an independent.
E ...
at the
1997 election.
2018 election
Incumbent Frances Bedford resigned from Labor and became an
independent
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on 28 March 2017 after Labor's
Jack Snelling
John James "Jack" Snelling (born 8 November 1972) is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Playford from the 1997 election until his retirement in 2018. Snelling left the Labo ...
won Florey pre-selection for the
2018 election. As an independent, Bedford continued to provide
confidence and supply
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support to the incumbent Labor government and did not make an immediate decision as to whether she would re-contest Florey as an independent. The
2016 electoral redistribution reassigned two-thirds of
Playford voters to Florey. A ReachTEL poll conducted on 2 March 2017 of 606 voters in post-redistribution Florey indicated a 33.4 percent primary vote for Bedford running as an independent which would likely see Labor's Snelling defeated after preferences.
Labor polling shows boundary redraw appeal loss means Jack Snelling could lose to veteran party MP Frances Bedford
10 March 2017, The Advertiser. Snelling announced on 17 September 2017 that he had decided not to contest the 2018 election.
Members for Florey
Election results
See also
* 1982 Florey state by-election
Notes
References
ECSA profile for Florey: 2018
ABC profile for Florey: 2018
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1970 establishments in Australia
Electoral districts of South Australia