Electoral district of Hurtle Vale

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Hurtle Vale
South AustraliaHouse of Assembly
Electoral district of Hurtle Vale 2022.svg
2022 boundaries shown green in Adelaide area
State South Australia
Created2018
MP Nat Cook
Party Australian Labor Party
NamesakeSir James Hurtle Fisher
Electors 26,093 (2018) [1]
Area20.61 km2 (8.0 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates 35°06′S138°33′E / 35.1°S 138.55°E / -35.1; 138.55
Electorates around Hurtle Vale:
Black Black Davenport
Reynell Hurtle Vale Davenport
Reynell Kaurna Heysen Kaurna Heysen
Footnotes
Electoral District map [2]

Hurtle Vale is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly, located in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election. [3]

Contents

Hurtle Vale is a new electorate replacing the electoral district of Fisher. It is named after Sir James Hurtle Fisher, the same as its predecessor. Hurtle Vale is further southwest than Fisher was before the redistribution, with overlap only in the northeast of Hurtle Vale with the southwest of Fisher. [4] At the time of the redistribution, 9000 electors from Fisher remained in Hurtle Vale. 10,000 moved with the suburb of Morphett Vale from Reynell and smaller numbers from Mawson and Mitchell. [1]

At its creation, Hurtle Vale was projected to be notionally held by the Labor Party with a swing of 1.7% required to lose it. [3] :Appendix 12 Nat Cook, who won Fisher at a by-election in 2014 for Labor, won Hurtle Vale at the 2018 election.

Geography

At its creation, Hurtle Vale contained the suburbs of Old Reynella, Reynella East, Woodcroft as well as part of Happy Valley and Morphett Vale. [4]

Members for Hurtle Vale

MemberPartyTerm
  Nat Cook Labor 2018–present

Election results

2022 South Australian state election: Hurtle Vale
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Nat Cook 12,16153.8+7.4
Liberal Nick Robins6,02126.6−4.7
Greens Joseph Johns1,8508.2+1.2
Family First David John Sires1,0224.5+4.5
Independent Rob De Jonge9154.0+4.0
Australian Family Lionel Zschech6412.8+2.8
Total formal votes22,61095.7
Informal votes1,0194.3
Turnout 23,62989.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Nat Cook 14,81365.5+7.2
Liberal Nick Robins7,79734.5−7.2
Labor hold Swing +7.2

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Redistribution Report Appendices". 2016. p. Appendix 9. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  2. Electoral District of Hurtle Vale (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. 1 2 "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  4. 1 2 Hurtle Vale (Map). South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 8 July 2017.

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