Elder 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 ...
. It is named after nineteenth-century businessman and philanthropist Sir
Thomas Elder
Sir Thomas Elder, (5 August 1818 – 6 March 1897), was a Scottish-Australian pastoralist, highly successful businessman, philanthropist, politician, race-horse owner and breeder, and public figure. Amongst many other things, he is notable fo ...
. Elder is an 18.3 km² suburban electorate in
Adelaide
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's inner south, taking in the suburbs of
Clapham
Clapham () is a suburb in south west London, England, lying mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, but with some areas (most notably Clapham Common) extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth.
History
Early history
T ...
,
Clovelly Park
Clovelly Park is an inner southern suburb of Adelaide in the local government area of the City of Marion. Before becoming an 'advanced' suburb, it was a farm and vineyard. The suburb is bordered by Daws Road to the north, South Road to the eas ...
,
Colonel Light Gardens
Colonel Light Gardens is a suburb located within the Australian City of Mitcham in the greater Adelaide region, approximately south of the Adelaide city centre. The area is . Planned as a garden suburb, it is known for wide, tree-lined street ...
,
Cumberland Park
Cumberland Park is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Mitcham.
Location
Located at 34.97°S 138.59°E, it is 58 m above mean sea level, and about 5 km south of the Adelaide city centre. The suburb's borde ...
,
Daw Park
Daw Park is an inner southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, in the local government area of the City of Mitcham. The suburb is divided into two parts, with a smaller northern exclave separated from the larger southern part by a sectio ...
,
Hawthorn
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Plants
* '' Crataegus'' (hawthorn), a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae
* ''Rhaphiolepis'' (hawthorn), a genus of about 15 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosace ...
,
Lower Mitcham,
Melrose Park,
Mitchell Park,
Panorama,
Pasadena
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...
,
St Marys,
Tonsley
Tonsley is a southern suburb of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.
History
The suburb of Tonsley was created on 27 January 2017 by dividing the suburb of Clovelly Park in half. The southern part of the suburb was separated from C ...
, and
Westbourne Park.
Elder was created as a marginal
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 ...
electorate at the 1991 electoral redistribution taking suburbs in from much of the abolished
Walsh Walsh may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Walsh (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname
Places
* Fort Walsh, one of the first posts of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
* Walsh, Ontario, Norfolk ...
and also from the redistributed
Mitchell
Mitchell may refer to:
People
*Mitchell (surname)
*Mitchell (given name)
Places Australia
* Mitchell, Australian Capital Territory, a light-industrial estate
* Mitchell, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst
* Mitchell, Northern Territo ...
. Elder was won by
Liberal
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Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
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* Sexually liberal feminism
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Arts, entertainment and m ...
David Wade with an 8.0 percent swing at the landslide Liberal victory of the
1993 election. Wade was defeated at the
1997 election – although he experienced a smaller than average swing of −6.1 percent, he only had a margin of 3.4 percent, and was easily defeated by Labor candidate
Pat Conlon
Patrick Frederick "Pat" Conlon (born 1959) is a former South Australian politician who represented the Electoral district of Elder in the South Australian House of Assembly as a member of the Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), L ...
. Conlon was re-elected at the
2002 election and became a senior minister in the
Rann government. The redistribution prior to the
2014 election reduced Labor's margin from 3.6 percent to 2.0 percent. Conlon retired in 2014 and Elder was retained by Labor's
Annabel Digance
Annabel Faith Catford Digance is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Elder for the Labor Party from the 2014 state election until her defeat at the 2018 state election. She was an independen ...
.
The
2016 redistribution ahead of the
2018 election changed Elder from a 1.8 percent Labor seat to a notional 4.3 percent Liberal seat.
[Final Report (PDF): Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission 8 December 2016]
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Members for Elder
Election results
Notes
References
ECSA profile for Elder: 2018
ABC profile for Elder: 2018
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Electoral districts of South Australia
1993 establishments in Australia