Electoral district of King (South Australia)

King
South Australia—House of Assembly
2022 boundaries shown in green on Adelaide area map
StateSouth Australia
Created2016
MPRhiannon Pearce
PartyAustralian Labor Party
NamesakeLen King AC QC
Electors27,002 (2016)[1]
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°43′S 138°44′E / 34.72°S 138.74°E / -34.72; 138.74
Electorates around King:
Light Schubert Schubert
Elizabeth King Newland
Ramsay Wright Newland
Footnotes
Electoral District map[2]

King is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election.[1]

King is named after Len King AC QC, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia and Attorney-General in the Dunstan government.[1]

The Electoral District Boundaries Commission considered that it had renamed the electoral district of Napier to King, but only 1479 of the estimated 27,002 voters in King had previously been voters in Napier from the rural areas of Bibaringa, One Tree Hill, Uleybury, Yattalunga. The majority of voters in King came from Wright in the suburbs of Golden Grove, Greenwith, Salisbury East and from Little Para in the suburbs of Gould Creek, Hillbank, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park.[1]

Geography

At its creation in 2016, King contained the suburbs of Bibaringa, Uleybury, Yattalunga, One Tree Hill, Gould Creek, Hillbank, Golden Grove, Greenwith, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park and part of Salisbury East. The northern part is essentially rural and the southern part is suburban. It is on the western foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges at the northern end of Adelaide.

The 2020 redistribution has moved the northern boundary south to Uley Road which has resulted in the movement of the suburbs of Bibaringa, Uleybury and Yattalunga which were part of the former Electorate of Napier to Schubert.[3]

Members for King

Member Party Term
  Paula Luethen Liberal 2018–2022
  Rhiannon Pearce Labor 2022–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of King (South Australia)
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § King.[edit]
2022 South Australian state election: King
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Rhiannon Pearce 10,366 43.2 +8.9
Liberal Paula Luethen 9,644 40.2 +3.5
Greens Kate Randell 1,347 5.6 −0.2
Family First Alisha Minahan 874 3.6 +3.6
Australian Family Alex Banks 865 3.6 +3.6
Animal Justice Frankie Bray 604 2.5 +2.5
Real Change Jodi Hutchinson 308 1.3 +1.3
Total formal votes 24,008 96.3
Informal votes 934 3.7
Turnout 24,942 91.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Rhiannon Pearce 12,692 52.9 +3.5
Liberal Paula Luethen 11,316 47.1 −3.5
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +3.5

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  2. ^ Electoral District of King (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ "2020 - Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission | Electoral Commission SA". Edbc.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 August 2022.

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