Electoral district of Narungga

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Narungga
South AustraliaHouse of Assembly
Electoral district of Narungga 2022.svg
2022 boundaries of the electoral district of Narungga in South Australia
State South Australia
Created2016
MP Fraser Ellis
Party Independent
Namesake Narungga people
Electors 24,318 (2016) [1]
DemographicRural
Coordinates 34°S138°E / 34°S 138°E / -34; 138
Electorates around Narungga:
Giles Stuart Frome
Flinders Narungga Frome
Spencer Gulf Mawson Frome
Footnotes
Electoral District map [2]

Narungga is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution of 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election. It is named for the Narungga people who are the traditional owners of the lands in most of the electorate. [3] It is one of two state districts named after South Australia's indigenous people (the other being the electoral district of Kaurna).

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Description

Narungga is essentially a reconfigured version of the former seat of Goyder, which itself was created in 1969 as a replacement for Yorke Peninsula. At its creation, it drew 21,993 electors from Goyder and 2,325 from Frome. Of the remaining electors from Goyder, 999 were lost to Frome, 422 to Schubert, and 1,619 to Taylor. [1]

Steven Griffiths had been the member for Goyder since 2006. He announced on 14 February 2017 that he would be retiring from parliament at the 2018 election. [4] Narungga is held by the Liberal Party with a comfortable 13.8% notional margin on the new boundaries. [1] :appendix 12 Counting its time as Goyder and Yorke Peninsula, the seat has been held by the Liberals and their predecessors, the Liberal and Country League, for all but seven years since the institution of single-member seats in 1938. It has never been won by the Labor Party in either of its incarnations.

Geography

At its creation, Narungga covered Yorke Peninsula and nearby areas. It includes the Yorke Peninsula Council, District Council of the Copper Coast, District Council of Barunga West and included the western parts of the Wakefield Regional Council and Adelaide Plains Council. [5]

Members for Narungga

MemberPartyTerm
  Fraser Ellis Liberal 2018–2020
  Independent 2020–present

Election results

2022 South Australian state election: Narungga
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Fraser Ellis 7,13932.5+32.5
Liberal Tom Michael6,32728.8−18.4
Labor Mark Paull4,42720.2+4.1
Independent Dianah Walter1,8268.3+8.3
One Nation Kerry White1,1835.4+5.4
Family First Wendy Leanne Joyce7703.5+3.5
National Ashley Wright2831.3+1.3
Total formal votes21,95595.7
Informal votes9954.3
Turnout 22,95091.4
Notional two-party-preferred count
Liberal Tom Michael64.1−4.1
Labor Mark Paull35.9+4.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Fraser Ellis 12,80858.3+58.3
Liberal Tom Michael9,14741.7−26.6
Independent hold 

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Redistribution report appendices, appendix 9" . Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. Electoral District of Narungga (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  4. Richardson, Tom (14 February 2017). "Former Lib high-flyer joins exit queue as party seeks to end "natural gerrymander"". InDaily. Solstice Media. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  5. Narungga (Map). Electoral District Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2017.

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