King is a single-member

electoral district An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...

for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election. King is named after

Len King Leonard James King (1 May 1925 – 23 June 2011) was an Australian politician, lawyer and judge. Early life King matriculated from St Joseph's Memorial School at age 14, then worked at Shell Company as a clerk. He served in the Royal Aus ...

, a former Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court of South Australia The Supreme Court of South Australia is the superior court of the Australian state of South Australia. The Supreme Court is the highest South Australian court in the Australian court hierarchy. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in ...

and Attorney-General in the Dunstan government. The Electoral District Boundaries Commission considered that it had renamed the

electoral district of Napier Napier was an electorate in the South Australian Legislative Assembly in the outer northern suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area, including the suburbs of Blakeview, Davoren Park, Elizabeth Downs, Evanston South, Kudla, Munno Para, Smithfi ...

to King, but only 1479 of the estimated 27,002 voters in King had previously been voters in Napier from the rural areas of

Bibaringa Bibaringa is a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Playford. It straddles the Gawler–One Tree Hill Road which follows the ridge up from Gawler between the South Para River gorge on the east of Bibaringa and the Adelaide ...

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Uleybury Uleybury is a rural locality near Adelaide, South Australia. It is located at the eastern side of the City of Playford local government area, just north of One Tree Hill along Gawler-One Tree Hill Road. History A weaver named Moses Bendle Ga ...

, Yattalunga. The majority of voters in King came from Wright in the suburbs of Golden Grove,

Greenwith Greenwith is an outer-north-eastern suburb of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, and is within the City of Tea Tree Gully local government area. It is adjacent to Golden Grove and Salisbury Heights. Greenwith is the northernmost ...

, Salisbury East and from Little Para in the suburbs of Gould Creek,

Hillbank Hillbank is a residential suburb of the City of Playford in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. It contains such features as Jo Gapper Regional Park, Hillbank Childcare Centre, Elizabeth Pistol Club and an On The Run petrol station ...

, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park.

Geography

At its creation in 2016, King contained the suburbs of

, Yattalunga,

, Gould Creek,

, Golden Grove,

, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park and part of Salisbury East. The northern part is essentially rural and the southern part is suburban. It is on the western foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges at the northern end of Adelaide. The 2020 redistribution has moved the northern boundary south to Uley Road which has resulted in the movement of the suburbs of Bibaringa, Uleybury and Yattalunga which were part of the former Electorate of Napier to Schubert.

Members for King

Election results

Notes

References

ECSA profile for King: 2018

ABC profile for King: 2018

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