Electoral district of Morialta

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Morialta
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Morialta highlighted
Electoral district of Morialta (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created2002
MPJohn Gardner
PartyLiberal Party of Australia (SA)
NamesakeMorialta[citation needed]
Electors25,995 (2018)
Area356 km2 (137.5 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°52′55″S 138°46′24″E / 34.88194°S 138.77333°E / -34.88194; 138.77333Coordinates: 34°52′55″S 138°46′24″E / 34.88194°S 138.77333°E / -34.88194; 138.77333
Electorates around Morialta:
Torrens Newland Schubert
Hartley Morialta Hammond
Bragg Kavel Hammond
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Morialta is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is a 356 km2 electorate stretching from the Adelaide Hills to the outer eastern and north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, taking in the suburbs and localities of Ashton, Athelstone, Basket Range, Birdwood, Castambul, Cherryville, Cudlee Creek, Forest Range, Gumeracha, Highbury, Kenton Valley, Lenswood, Lobethal, Marble Hill, Montacute, Mount Torrens, Norton Summit, Rostrevor, Summertown, Teringie, Uraidla and Woodforde, as well as part of Chain of Ponds.

Morialta is a word derived from the Kaurna language, originally thought to be marri-yartalla, "marri" meaning east and yertala meaning "flowing water".[2] More recent research has shown that the etymology of the word is marri, meaning "east" and probably yarta, meaning "land, earth, country", or possibly yalta, meaning "cool, fresh, airy"; therefore, probably meaning "eastern land or country".[3][4] The land used by the Morialta Conservation Park was traditionally occupied by the Kaurna people.

Morialta was the new name adopted in 2002 for the electoral district of Coles, which was first created at the 1970 election and represented over the years by several distinguished MPs, including former Dunstan Labor government Attorney General Len King, and former Premier Des Corcoran. Morialta was won at the 2002 election by Liberal minister Joan Hall, the last member for Coles, on a margin of 4.1 percent, suffering a -2.4 percent swing. At the 2006 election, Hall was thought likely to again hold the seat with a reduced margin, but was defeated by Labor candidate Lindsay Simmons amidst Labor's statewide landslide, receiving a 12 percent two-party preferred swing to finish with a 7.9 percent margin. However, at the 2010 election the electorate there was a swing of 11.1 percent back to the Liberals, with candidate John Gardner defeating Simmons by a margin of 4.1 percent.

Members for Morialta[]

Member Party Term
  Joan Hall Liberal 2002–2006
  Lindsay Simmons Labor 2006–2010
  John Gardner Liberal 2010–present

Election results[]

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Morialta
2018 South Australian state election: Morialta[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Gardner 10,332 44.3 −11.2
Labor Peter Field 5,146 22.1 −5.6
SA-Best James Sadler 4,645 19.9 +19.9
Greens Simon Roberts-Thomson 1,525 6.5 −4.3
Conservatives Matt Smith 854 3.7 −2.3
Dignity Tim Farrow 560 2.4 +2.4
Independent Peter Smythe 240 1.0 +1.0
Total formal votes 23,302 95.9 −1.3
Informal votes 1,007 4.1 +1.3
Turnout 24,309 93.5 −0.2
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal John Gardner 14,151 60.7 −1.5
Labor Peter Field 9,151 39.3 +1.5
Liberal hold Swing −1.5

Notes[]

  1. ^ Electoral District of Morialta (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. ^ Amery, Rob; Buckskin, Vincent (Jack) Kanya (March 2009). "Chapter 10. Pinning down Kaurna names: Linguistic issues arising in the development of the Kaurna Placenames Database" (PDF). In Hercus, Luise; Hodges, Flavia; Simpson, Jane (eds.). The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia. ANU Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-1921536571.
  3. ^ Schulz, Chester (16 August 2017). "Place Name Summary (PNS) 2/01: Marriyarta (or Marriyalta?)" (PDF). Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi. The Southern Kaurna Place Names Project. University of Adelaide.
  4. ^ Amery, Rob (2016). "Chapter 8. Kaurna in Society". Warraparna Kaurna!: Reclaiming an Australian language. University of Adelaide Press. p. 204. JSTOR 10.20851/j.ctt1sq5wgq.18. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. ^ State Election Results - District Results for Morialta, ECSA.

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