Electoral district of Croydon (South Australia)

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Croydon
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with the electoral district of Croydon highlighted
Electoral district of Croydon (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created2002
MPPeter Malinauskas
PartyAustralian Labor Party (SA)
NamesakeCroydon
Electors24,628 (2018)
Area18.78 km2 (7.3 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°52′43″S 138°33′40″E / 34.87861°S 138.56111°E / -34.87861; 138.56111Coordinates: 34°52′43″S 138°33′40″E / 34.87861°S 138.56111°E / -34.87861; 138.56111
Electorates around Croydon:
Port Adelaide Port Adelaide Port Adelaide
Cheltenham Croydon Enfield Adelaide
West Torrens West Torrens Adelaide
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Croydon is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the suburb of Croydon, it is a 18.78 km2 (7.25 sq mi) suburban electorate in Adelaide's inner north-west. In addition to Croydon, it includes Angle Park, Athol Park, Bowden, Brompton, Croydon Park, Devon Park, Dudley Park, Ferryden Park, Kilkenny, Mansfield Park, Regency Park, Renown Park, Ridleyton, West Croydon, Woodville Gardens; and parts of Allenby Gardens, Welland, and West Hindmarsh.

Croydon was created in the 1998 electoral distribution as a safe Labor seat, replacing the abolished Spence. It was first contested at the 2002 state election, where it was won by future Attorney-General and Speaker Michael Atkinson, the previous member for Spence since 1989. The seat is split between the marginal federal seats of Adelaide and Hindmarsh and the safe federal Labor seat of Port Adelaide. Following the 2014 election Croydon became Labor's safest seat on an 18.9 percent margin.

The 2016 redistribution by the electoral districts boundaries commission saw the northern boundary of Croydon district extended northwards from the vicinity of Regency Road to Grand Junction Road. The southwestern boundary also changed, with Beverley, Woodville Park, Hindmarsh and Flinders Park being absorbed by the neighbouring districts of Cheltenham and West Torrens.

In February 2017, Atkinson announced his intention to resign from parliament and not recontest the seat as of the 2018 election.[2] Upper house MP Peter Malinauskas succeeded him at the 2018 election.[3]

Members for Croydon[]

Member Party Term
  Michael Atkinson Labor 2002–2018
  Peter Malinauskas Labor 2018–present

Election results[]

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Croydon (South Australia)
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2018 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Croydon.[]
2018 South Australian state election: Croydon[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Peter Malinauskas 11,739 58.0 −2.3
Liberal Daria Hextell 3,185 15.7 −7.8
SA-Best Julia Karpathakis 2,125 10.5 +10.5
Greens Nathan Lange 1,424 7.0 −3.3
Animal Justice Millie Hammerstein 803 4.0 +4.0
Conservatives Rachael Runner 365 1.8 −3.0
Dignity Lucy McGinley 241 1.2 +1.2
Independent Michael Lesiw 176 0.9 +0.9
Danig Gabor Gesti 172 0.9 +0.9
Total formal votes 20,230 93.0 −3.4
Informal votes 1,511 7.0 +3.4
Turnout 21,741 88.3 +5.3
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Peter Malinauskas 15,044 74.4 +3.2
Liberal Daria Hextell 5,186 25.6 −3.2
Labor hold Swing +3.2

Notes[]

  1. ^ Electoral District of Croydon (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. ^ "State Labor MPs Michael Atkinson, Jennifer Rankine and Steph Key quitting politics at next election". The Advertiser. 3 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Peter Malinauskas". Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  4. ^ State Election Results – District Results for Croydon, ECSA.

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