Electoral district of Newland

Newland
South Australia—House of Assembly
Newland; South Australia—House of Assembly
	Electoral district of Newland (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1977
MP	Richard Harvey
Party	Liberal Party of Australia
Namesake	Simpson Newland
Electors	25,889 (2018)
Area	249.76 km2 (96.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
	Electorates around Newland:
Footnotes
	Electoral District map

Newland is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after pioneer Simpson Newland, a prominent figure in nineteenth-century South Australia. It is a 69.3 km² suburban electorate in north-eastern Adelaide, taking in the suburbs of Banksia Park, Fairview Park, Forreston, Hope Valley, Houghton, Humbug Scrub, Inglewood, Kersbrook, Lower Hermitage, Millbrook, Paracombe, Ridgehaven, Sampson Flat, St Agnes, Tea Tree Gully, Upper Hermitage, Vista and Yatala Vale as well as parts of Chain of Ponds and Modbury.

Replacing the abolished electoral district of Tea Tree Gully, Newland was created at the 1976 redistribution, taking effect at the 1977 election.^[2] It followed a bellwether pattern until the 1989 election, where it was won by Liberal candidate Dorothy Kotz. Kotz developed a strong personal following and had little difficulty being re-elected until her retirement at the 2006 election. Her retirement and the landslide Labor victory across the state led to Labor candidate Tom Kenyon winning the electorate.^[3] It became the Labor government's most marginal electorate at the 2014 election.

The 2016 redistribution ahead of the 2018 election changed Newland from a 1.4 percent Labor electorate to a notional 0.1 percent Liberal electorate.^[4]

Members for Newland[]

	Party	Term
John Klunder	Labor	1977–1979
Brian Billard	Liberal	1979–1982
John Klunder	Labor	1982–1985
Di Gayler	Labor	1985–1989
Dorothy Kotz	Liberal	1989–2006
Tom Kenyon	Labor	2006–2018
Richard Harvey	Liberal	2018–present

Election results[]

2018 South Australian state election: Newland^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Harvey	8,376	36.6	−6.6
	Labor	Tom Kenyon	7,770	34.0	−7.1
	SA-Best	Rajini Vasan	3,730	16.3	+16.3
	Greens	Stephanie Stewart	1,274	5.6	−2.0
	Conservatives	Martin Leedham	1,011	4.4	−3.8
	Dignity	Sandra Williams	366	1.6	+1.6
	Independent	Shane Bailey	354	1.5	+1.5
Total formal votes			22,881	95.6	−1.5
Informal votes			1,050	4.4	+1.5
Turnout			23,931	92.4	+1.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Richard Harvey	11,888	52.0	+1.8
	Labor	Tom Kenyon	10,993	48.0	−1.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.8