Dunstan 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 ...
, covering the inner eastern suburbs of
Beulah Park,
College Park,
Evandale,
Firle
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,
Hackney,
Joslin,
Kensington,
Kensington Park,
Kensington Gardens,
Kent Town
Kent Town is an inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters.
History
Kent Town was named for Dr. Benjamin Archer Kent (1808 – 25 November 1864), a medical practitioner of Walsall, Sta ...
,
Marden,
Maylands,
Norwood,
Payneham,
Payneham South,
Royston Park,
St Morris,
St Peters,
Stepney
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, and
Trinity Gardens
Trinity Gardens is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The name is taken from '' Holy Trinity Church''.
History
On 28 March 1840 the trustees of Holy Trinity – Osmond Gilles, Charles Mann and James Hurtle Fisher – were given approximat ...
.
The electorate was created in the 2012 redistribution of electoral boundaries. It was essentially a reconfigured version of
Norwood, with the electoral boundaries remaining unchanged. It is named after the 35th
Premier of South Australia
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,
Don Dunstan
Donald Allan Dunstan (21 September 1926 – 6 February 1999) was an Australian politician who served as the 35th premier of South Australia from 1967 to 1968, and again from 1970 to 1979. He was a member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for th ...
, who represented Norwood for
Labor
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from 1953 to 1979. The
2010 election was the first time that Labor was in government without holding Norwood.
Following the 2016 redistribution, the cityside suburbs of
Rose Park and
Dulwich
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, previously in
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, were added to Dunstan.
Liberal
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MP
Steven Marshall, the last member for Norwood, successfully transferred to Dunstan at the
2014 state election while serving as Leader of the Opposition. He was reelected with a healthy swing in
2018, becoming Premier.
Ahead of the
2022 state election, Dunstan was pushed further east, picking up the Kensington towns while losing
Felixstow,
Glynde
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, Rose Park and Dulwich. This boosted the Liberal margin to a notional 7.1 percent, making Dunstan a fairly safe Liberal seat on paper. At that election, the Liberals were heavily defeated after only one term. Marshall himself was nearly defeated, suffering a swing of almost seven percent. As a result, Dunstan is now the most marginal seat in the legislature, with Marshall sitting on a majority of 0.5 percent.
Members for Dunstan
Election results
See also
*
Electoral results for the district of Norwood
Notes
References
ECSA profile for Dunstan: 2018ABC profile for Dunstan: 2018
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Electoral districts of South Australia
2014 establishments in Australia