Port Adelaide is a single-member electoral district for the

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. Named after Port Adelaide, which it surrounds, it is a 118.8 km² suburban and industrial electorate on

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, and stretches east toward Adelaide's northern suburbs. It contains a mix of seaside residential areas, wasteland and industrial regions. In addition to its namesake suburb of Port Adelaide, the district includes the suburbs of

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, Bolivar, Cavan, Dry Creek,

Ethelton Ethelton is a north-western suburb of Adelaide from the CBD, on the Lefevre Peninsula, in the state of South Australia, Australia. It is a residential suburb within the local government area of City of Port Adelaide Enfield, adjacent to the s ...

, Exeter, Garden Island,

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, Gillman, Glanville,

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, Largs Bay,

Largs North Largs North is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Lefevre Peninsula in the west of Adelaide about northwest of the Adelaide city centre. Description Largs North is bounded to the north by the suburb of Taperoo ...

, New Port, North Haven,

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, Ottoway, Outer Harbor,

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, Semaphore,

Semaphore South Semaphore South is a beachside suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. The Semaphore South Post Office opened on 3 November 1947 and closed in 1978. Politics Semaphore South is located in the state electoral district of Lee ...

, St Kilda,

Taperoo Taperoo is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located on the LeFevre Peninsula in the west of Adelaide about north-west of the Adelaide city centre. Description Taperoo is adjacent to Osborne and Largs North. It is bounded ...

Torrens Island Torrens Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Adelaide metropolitan area in the Port River Estuary about northwest of the Adelaide city centre. Since European settlement of Adelaide in 1836, it has ...

, Wingfield, as well as part of Rosewater. Port Adelaide has had three incarnations as a South Australian electoral district. Port Adelaide was the name of an electoral district of the unicameral

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from 1851 until its abolition in 1857. From 1857 until 1902 it was a two-seat

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district. From 1902 until 1915 it was a large three-seat multi-member district covering Adelaide's north-west and western suburbs; together with the four-member

and five-member Torrens, the three districts with a total of 12-members covered the whole of the metropolitan area in the 42 member house. The district returned to two members in 1915, and became a single member district from the 1938 election onward. It was held without interruption by

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until the district's abolition prior to the 1970 election, and for most of that time was one of Labor's safest seats. The bulk of its territory was split between the neighbouring seats of Semaphore and

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. The last member for this seat's original incarnation, John Ryan, transferred to Price. The seat was recreated in 2002, essentially as a reconfigured version of

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(which was itself created in 1993 as a replacement for Semaphore). Like its previous incarnation, it is a comfortably safe Labor seat. The member for Hart, deputy premier and state treasurer Kevin Foley, followed most of his constituents into the recreated seat and held it easily. At the 2006 election, Foley increased his margin from 21.7 percent to 25.7 percent, and gained a majority in all booths. Foley retired in 2011, triggering a by-election held in February 2012.

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retained the seat for Labor.

Members

Election results

Notes

References

ECSA profile for Port Adelaide: 2018

ABC profile for Port Adelaide: 2018

{{DEFAULTSORT:Port Adelaide Electoral districts of South Australia 1857 establishments in Australia 1970 disestablishments in Australia 2002 establishments in Australia