The Division of Angas was an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. The division was created in 1903 and abolished in 1934. It was named for George Fife Angas, a South Australian pioneer politician, banker and pastoralist who played a significant part in the formation and establishment of the Province of South Australia.
The Division was one of the seven established when the former multi member Division of South Australia was split into single member electorates on 2 October 1903. It was a generally marginal seat which was won at various times by the Australian Labor Party and the Nationalist Party (and their predecessors).
From 1922 the Division stretched further north eastward as far as the riverland South Australian border. The subdivsions being - Subdivisions of Angaston, Gawler, Gumeracha, Loxton, Magill, Mannum, Mitcham, Mount Pleasant, Murray Bridge, Norton's' Summit, Salisbury, Two Wells, Waikerie and Woodside.[1]
Angas was abolished in May 1934 as a result of redistribution which reduced the number of representatives from South Australia to six. The district was divided between Adelaide, Boothby, Barker, and Wakefield. [2][3] As a result each of the remaining six electorates had been increased in elector size. [4]
↑ Labor-turned-independent MP Moses Gabb was endorsed in the Division of Angas by the Emergency Committee of South Australia (formed by the state UAP for this election) who did not run their own candidate in Angas. Though Gabb is counted as an Emergency Committee MP, he remained an independent and did not help form or sit with the government and as such has been removed from government tallies.
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The Division of Angas was an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. The division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949 and abolished in 1977. It was named for George Fife Angas, a South Australian pioneer politician, banker and pastoralist who played a significant part in the formation and establishment of the Province of South Australia.
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The Division of Wakefield was an Australian electoral division in the state of South Australia. The seat was a hybrid rural-urban electorate that stretched from Salisbury in the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide at the south of the seat right through to the Clare Valley at the north of the seat, 135 km from Adelaide. It included the suburbs of Elizabeth, Craigmore, Munno Para, and part of Salisbury, and the towns of Balaklava, Clare, Freeling, Gawler, Kapunda, Mallala, Riverton, Tarlee, Virginia, Williamstown, and part of Port Wakefield.
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Joel Moses Gabb was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1919 to 1934, representing the electorate of Angas. He represented the Australian Labor Party until resigning during the 1931 Labor split; however, he did not join the United Australia Party along with the other dissident MPs, and instead remained in parliament as an independent.
Walter Langdon Parsons was an Australian politician.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1931 Australian federal election. The election was held on 19 December 1931.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1934 Australian federal election. The election was held on 15 September 1934.
This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Angas in Australian federal elections from the division's creation in 1903 until its abolition in 1934.
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