Electoral district of King (South Australia)

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King
South AustraliaHouse of Assembly
Electoral district of King 2018 - Adelaide.png
2018 boundaries shown in green on Adelaide area map
StateSouth Australia
Created2016
MPPaula Luethen
PartyLiberal Party of Australia
NamesakeLen King AC QC
Electors27,002 (2016)[1]
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°43′S 138°44′E / 34.72°S 138.74°E / -34.72; 138.74Coordinates: 34°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–present

Election results[]

2018 South Australian state election: King[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Paula Luethen 8,932 36.8 −4.7
Labor Julie Duncan 8,298 34.1 −7.0
SA-Best Giles Rositano 4,519 18.6 +18.6
Greens Damon Adams 1,412 5.8 −0.6
Conservatives Gary Balfort 1,138 4.7 −3.7
Total formal votes 24,299 96.0 −0.3
Informal votes 1,016 4.0 +0.3
Turnout 25,315 93.1 +4.6
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Paula Luethen 12,328 50.7 +0.7
Labor Julie Duncan 11,971 49.3 −0.7
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +0.7

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.
  3. ^ https://edbc.sa.gov.au/redistributions/2020.html
  4. ^ State Election Results – District Results for King, ECSA.

References[]

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