Black is a single-member

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for the

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. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election. Black is named after

Dorrit Black Dorothea Foster Black (23 December 1891 – 13 September 1951) was an Australian painter and printmaker of the modernism, Modernist school, known for being a pioneer of Modernism in Australia. In 1951, at the age of sixty, Black was killed in a ...

(Dorothea Foster Black, 1891–1951), a South Australian modern artist, best known for

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s, oil and watercolour paintings. Black lies south-west of the

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and includes the suburbs of

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, Hallett Cove,

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, Marino, O'Halloran Hill,

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, Seacliff Park, Seacombe Heights, Seaview Downs,

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and

Trott Park Trott Park is a suburb in the south of Adelaide, South Australia. It has a population of 3,503 people (2016 Census). It is surrounded in most part by open space: the O'Halloran Hill Recreation Park, and Roseworthy Park, a former Commonwealth S ...

. At its creation, Black was projected to be notionally held by the

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with a swing of 2.6% required to lose it. The 2018 creation of Black replaced the electorate of

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that was disestablished at the 2018 state election. Black does not extend as far north or south as Mitchell did, but extends west to the coast through part of what used to be

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Members for Black

Election results

Notes

References

ECSA profile for Black: 2018

ABC profile for Black: 2018

{{2018 in Australia

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2018 establishments in Australia