Electoral district of Morphett

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Morphett
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Morphett highlighted
Electoral district of Morphett (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created1977
MPStephen Patterson
PartyLiberal Party of Australia
NamesakeSir John Morphett
Electors26,419 (2018)
Area14.42 km2 (5.6 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°58′1″S 138°31′19″E / 34.96694°S 138.52194°E / -34.96694; 138.52194Coordinates: 34°58′1″S 138°31′19″E / 34.96694°S 138.52194°E / -34.96694; 138.52194
Electorates around Morphett:
Gulf St Vincent Colton West Torrens
Gulf St Vincent Morphett Badcoe
Gulf St Vincent Gibson Elder
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Morphett is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. The electorate is located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) slightly south of west of the Adelaide city centre, bounded by the Holdfast Bay coastline to the west and Morphett Road to the east. It is approximately 14.4 km2 (5.6 sq mi) in area, and includes the suburbs of Camden Park, Glenelg, Glenelg East, Glenelg South, Glengowrie, Morphettville, Novar Gardens, Park Holme and Plympton Park, as well as parts of Plympton and Somerton Park.

Created in 1976 following the electoral redistribution which took effect from the 1977 election, the electoral district was named after Sir John Morphett (1809–1892) who lived in the Morphettville area and was speaker of the enlarged Legislative Council in 1851, and president of the elected Legislative Council from 1865 to 1873.

On its creation, Morphett was a notionally marginal Liberal electorate. However, it was won by the Dunstan Labor government in its landslide 1977 election victory, and was Labor's only marginal seat. The Liberals won it at the 1979 election and have held it ever since. The Liberal hold on the electorate was considerably strengthened when the safe Liberal seat of Glenelg was abolished at the 1983 redistribution and largely merged with Morphett.

Duncan McFetridge resigned from the Liberals and moved to the crossbench as an independent in May 2017 after losing endorsement for Morphett pre-selection to City of Holdfast Bay mayor Stephen Patterson ahead of the 2018 election.[2] Patterson was successful at the election.

Members for Morphett[]

Member Party Term
  Terry Groom Labor 1977–1979
  John Oswald Liberal 1979–2002
  Duncan McFetridge Liberal 2002–2017
  Independent 2017–2018
  Stephen Patterson Liberal 2018–present

Election results[]

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Morphett
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2018 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Morphett.[]
2018 South Australian state election: Morphett[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Stephen Patterson 9,576 41.4 −11.1
Labor Mark Siebentritt 5,929 25.6 −7.1
Independent Duncan McFetridge 3,288 14.2 +14.2
SA-Best Simon Jones 2,790 12.1 +12.1
Greens Chris Crabbe 1,187 5.1 −4.9
Dignity Monica Kwan 379 1.6 +1.0
Total formal votes 23,149 96.7 −0.2
Informal votes 785 3.3 +0.2
Turnout 23,934 90.7 +2.4
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Stephen Patterson 13,998 60.5 +2.6
Labor Mark Siebentritt 9,151 39.5 −2.6
Liberal hold Swing +2.6

Notes[]

  1. ^ Electoral District of Morphett (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Duncan McFetridge quits Liberal Party after Morphett preselection loss". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 May 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  3. ^ State Election Results – District Results for Morphett, ECSA.

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