Electoral district of Reynell

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Reynell
South Australia—House of Assembly
Electoral district of Reynell 2022.svg
Electoral district of Reynell (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State South Australia
Created1993
MP Katrine Hildyard
Party Australian Labor Party (SA)
Namesake John Reynell
Electors 24,828 (2018)
Area33.06 km2 (12.8 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates 35°6′50″S138°30′30″E / 35.11389°S 138.50833°E / -35.11389; 138.50833
Electorates around Reynell:
Gulf St Vincent Black Davenport
Gulf St VincentReynell Hurtle Vale
Gulf St Vincent Kaurna Hurtle Vale
Footnotes
Electoral District map [1]

Reynell is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after John Reynell, a founder of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia and noted 19th-century wheat farmer, sheep and cattle breeder, vigneron and winemaker in the area. [2] Reynell is a 33.1 km² urban residential and industrial electorate in Adelaide's far south. It includes the suburbs of Christies Beach, Christie Downs, Hackham West, Lonsdale, Noarlunga Centre, O'Sullivan Beach, Port Noarlunga and Reynella, as well as part of Morphett Vale.

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Reynell was created for the 1993 state election as a fairly safe Labor seat, but was won by Julie Greig for the Liberals as part of a statewide landslide. It was reclaimed for Labor at the 1997 election by Gay Thompson. Labor's Katrine Hildyard succeeded her at the 2014 election.

Members for Reynell

MemberPartyTerm
  Julie Greig Liberal 1993–1997
  Gay Thompson Labor 1997–2014
  Katrine Hildyard Labor 2014–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Reynell.[ edit ]
2022 South Australian state election: Reynell
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Katrine Hildyard 12,45854.5+10.7
Liberal Patrick Moller5,63924.7−1.7
Greens Lisa Adams2,51611.0+5.5
Family First Radosav Jovanovic2,2379.8+9.8
Total formal votes22,85096.2
Informal votes9023.8
Turnout 23,75287.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Katrine Hildyard 15,24966.7+7.3
Liberal Patrick Moller7,60133.3−7.3
Labor hold Swing +7.3

Notes

  1. ↑ Electoral District of Reynell (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ Dirk Van Dissel (1976). "Reynell, John (1809–1873)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press.

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