Playford 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 long serving South Australian premier
Tom Playford, it is a 22.7 km² suburban electorate in
Adelaide
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's north, taking in the suburbs of
Green Fields,
Mawson Lakes
Mawson Lakes is a residential suburb in the City of Salisbury, Adelaide, Australia. Named in honor of Sir Douglas Mawson, it has a census area population of 10,872 people. The suburb is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide around 12 ...
,
Para Hills,
Para Hills West,
Parafield and
Parafield Gardens.
Playford was created 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 and was first contested at the
1970 election, where it was won by Labor candidate
Terry McRae. At the
1989 election, McRae resigned from politics, with the seat won by Labor candidate
John Quirke. Though typically a safe Labor seat, the seat technically became marginal, reduced to just a 2.7 percent two-party margin at the
1993 election landslide. At the
1997 election, Quirke resigned to enter the
Australian Senate, with the seat won by Labor candidate
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 ...
.
Members for Playford
Election results
Notes
References
ECSA profile for Playford: 2018ABC profile for Playford: 2018
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Electoral districts of South Australia
1993 establishments in Australia