Electoral district of King (South Australia)

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King
South AustraliaHouse of Assembly
Electoral district of King 2022.svg
Electoral district of King (South Australia)
Interactive map of electoral district boundaries
State South Australia
Created2016
MP Rhiannon Pearce
Party Australian Labor Party
Namesake Len King AC QC
Electors 27,002 (2016) [1]
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates 34°43′S138°44′E / 34.72°S 138.74°E / -34.72; 138.74
Electorates around King:
Light Schubert Schubert
King King Newland
Ramsay Wright Newland
Footnotes
Electoral District map [2]

King is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election. [1]

Contents

King is named after Len King AC QC , a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia and Attorney-General in the Dunstan government. [1]

The Electoral District Boundaries Commission considered that it had renamed the electoral district of Napier to King, but only 1479 of the estimated 27,002 voters in King had previously been voters in Napier from the rural areas of Bibaringa, One Tree Hill, Uleybury, Yattalunga. The majority of voters in King came from Wright in the suburbs of Golden Grove, Greenwith, Salisbury East and from Little Para in the suburbs of Gould Creek, Hillbank, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park. [1]

Geography

At its creation in 2016, King contained the suburbs of Bibaringa, Uleybury, Yattalunga, One Tree Hill, Gould Creek, Hillbank, Golden Grove, Greenwith, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park and part of Salisbury East. The northern part is essentially rural and the southern part is suburban. It is on the western foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges at the northern end of Adelaide.

The 2020 redistribution has moved the northern boundary south to Uley Road which has resulted in the movement of the suburbs of Bibaringa, Uleybury and Yattalunga which were part of the former Electorate of Napier to Schubert. [3]

Members for King

MemberPartyTerm
  Paula Luethen Liberal 2018–2022
  Rhiannon Pearce Labor 2022–present

Election results

2022 South Australian state election: King
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Rhiannon Pearce 10,36643.2+8.9
Liberal Paula Luethen 9,64440.2+3.5
Greens Kate Randell1,3475.6−0.2
Family First Alisha Minahan8743.6+3.6
Australian Family Alex Banks8653.6+3.6
Animal Justice Frankie Bray6042.5+2.5
Real ChangeJodi Hutchinson3081.3+1.3
Total formal votes24,00896.3
Informal votes9343.7
Turnout 24,94291.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Rhiannon Pearce 12,69252.9+3.5
Liberal Paula Luethen 11,31647.1−3.5
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +3.5
Distribution of preferences: King
PartyCandidateVotesRound 1Round 2Round 3Round 4Round 5
Dist.TotalDist.TotalDist.TotalDist.TotalDist.Total
Quota (50% + 1)12,005
  Labor Rhiannon Pearce 10,366+2610,392+20910,601+7310,674+95111,625+1,06712,692
  Liberal Paula Luethen 9,644+249,668+749,742+1259,867+37610,243+1,07311,316
  Greens Kate Randell1,347+371,384+2121,596+951,691Excluded
  Family First Alisha Minahan874+63937+1031,040+7361,776+3642,140Excluded
  Australian Family Alex Banks865+97962+671,029Excluded
  Animal Justice Frankie Bray604+61665Excluded
  Real Change Jodi Hutchinson308Excluded

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  2. Electoral District of King (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. "2020 - Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission | Electoral Commission SA". Edbc.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 August 2022.

References