Norwood is a former

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of the

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in the Australian state of

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. It was a 14.2 km² inner-urban electorate in

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and was named after the inner-eastern suburb of Norwood. In its final configuration, the seat also included the suburbs of Beulah Park, College Park, Evandale,

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, Hackney, Joslin, Kent Town, Marden, Maylands, Payneham South, Royston Park, St Morris, St Peters,

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and

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, as well as parts of

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, Klemzig and Payneham. Norwood was created as an electoral district in 1938, and was usually a marginal seat, changing hands between the Labor Party and the

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(and the Liberals' predecessor, the

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) a number of times. The electorate is synonymous with former

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, who held the seat from 1953 until 1979. In 1979 and 1980, Norwood voters went to the ballot box three times within 12 months; first at the March 1979 by-election following Dunstan's resignation, then the September 1979 state election, and again at the February 1980 by-election which resulted from a court decision invalidating the election result. That by-election reduced the

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government's already precarious two-seat majority to a knife-edge of one seat. From 1979 until 1993 (with a short break from September 1979 to February 1980), the seat was held by prominent Labor minister

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, who is now Australian head of the

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and the

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alumni organisation. In the shadow of the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia, the Liberals, through John Cummins, reclaimed the seat at the 1993 state election in a landslide. Cummins was defeated by Labor's Vini Ciccarello at the 1997 state election with a 1.5% margin. At the 2002 state election, the margin was whittled down to 0.5% but was increased to 4.2% at the 2006 state election. Ciccarello was defeated in the 2010 state election by Liberal candidate

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following a large swing, and this marked the first time that Labor had been in government without holding the seat of Norwood. The Electoral Commission of South Australia's 2012 redistribution included renaming the seat to

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which took effect from 15 March 2014.

Members for Norwood

Election results

References

External links

Poll Bludger profile for Norwood: 2006
{{DEFAULTSORT:Norwood Former electoral districts of South Australia 1938 establishments in Australia 2014 disestablishments in Australia