Kris Hanna (born 1962) is the Mayor of

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. He was the member for

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in the

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from 1997 until 2010. Originally elected as a member of the Labor Party, Hanna joined the

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in 2003 before becoming an

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member in 2006. Before entering

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, Hanna practised law. He also served as a Councillor for the

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from 1995 to 1997. He returned to practicing law in 2010 and, in 2014 was elected unopposed as Mayor of the City of Marion. Hanna has served on the Board of Victim Support Service, and is Patron of numerous local sporting clubs. He was a long-serving member of the Seaview High School Governing Council and had been President of Friends of Glenthorne. While initially elected at the

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and 2002 elections as a member of the Labor Party, he moved to the Greens in early 2003. He resigned from the Greens on 8 February 2006, ran in the 2006 election as an independent and won. His chances of retaining his seat in 2006 had been essentially written off by most commentators after his decision to become an Independent MP, but he won a narrow victory after a very low Liberal primary vote, and an endorsement from popular Independent MP

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. Despite an improved primary vote, he narrowly lost his seat at the 2010 election, finishing third after all non-major party preferences had been distributed. Hanna sought to have his 2010 election loss overturned by the

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, sitting as the

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, saying he fell victim to "misleading and defamatory" leaflets and posters distributed by the Labor Party. The court ruled the leaflets – labelling Hanna "soft on crime" – were defamatory and not factual, yet there was a right to express such opinions. The court dismissed Hanna's case. Hanna unsuccessfully re-contested the seat of

at the 2014 election. Some of the local issues Hanna campaigned on were: upgrading the Oaklands rail crossing and making Glenthorne a forested recreational park. In the

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he stood as the SA Best candidate for the

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.Electorate of Gibson
sabest.org.auKris Hanna – candidate for the seat of Gibson
sabest.org.au Hanna was re-elected as Mayor of Marion in November 2018 for a further 4-year term. He received 9094 primary votes out of 15907 votes cast. Hanna was re-elected Mayor of Marion in November 2022 for a further 4-year term. He received 11,988 first preference votes out of 19,219 formal ballot papers counted.

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