Central District (South Australian Legislative Council)

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Central District was an electoral district for the Legislative Council of South Australia from 1882 until 1912. Prior to the passing of the Constitution Act Further Amendment Act 1881, the Legislative Council had been 18 members elected by people from across the entire Province.

At its creation in 1882, the Central District consisted of six electoral districts for the South Australian House of Assembly - East Adelaide, West Adelaide, North Adelaide, West Torrens, Sturt, Port Adelaide.^[1] It covered the area of the City of Adelaide and the surrounding areas on the south, west and northwest.

Members

When created, the district was to elect six members to the Legislative Council which had been increased to 24 members, six from each of four districts. Transitional arrangements meant that members were only to be elected from the new districts as the terms of the existing members expired.^[1] From 1891, all members of the Council were elected by districts.

The Constitution Act Amendment Act 1901 reduced the size of the parliament, but Central District was the only one to continue to elect six members, from a slightly larger area including some of the Adelaide Hills.^[2] The Constitution Act Further Amendment Act 1913 (No. 1148) increased the size of the Council (among other changes), by dividing the Central District into Central District No. 1 and Central District No. 2, each of which elected four members.^[3]

Date of change	Member	Member	member	Member	Member	Member
28 February 1884	William Knox Simms (ret 1891)
15 May 1885		John Crozier	Henry Scott
25 June 1887		John Howard Angas		Alfred Muller Simpson
5 May 1888					George Witherage Cotton	Sylvanus James Magarey
23 May 1891	Robert Storrie Guthrie (reelected 1897, 1902)		David Morley Charleston (United Labor Party)		George Witherage Cotton
15 April 1893					William Alfred Robinson
19 May 1894		Henry Robert Fuller		Henry Adams
22 May 1897						Samuel Tomkinson
11 September 1897			David Morley Charleston (independent)
19 May 1900		Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick (re-elected 1902, 1905)			Joseph Vardon (re-elected 1902)
22 September 1900						Charles Cameron Kingston
9 February 1901						John Langdon Parsons
1 June 1901			George Brookman (re-elected 1902)
3 May 1902				Henry William Thompson (re-elected 1905)
19 September 1903						Hugo Carl Emil Muecke
19 December 1903	Beaumont Arnold Moulden (re-elected 1905)
27 May 1905
20 October 1906				David Jelley
3 November 1906				David Jelley	James Phillips Wilson (re-elected 1910)
2 March 1907				Frederick Samuel Wallis (re-elected 1912)
15 May 1909		Theodore Bruce
2 April 1910		Theodore Bruce	Ernest Leopold William Klauer			Alfred William Styles
5 August 1911		Charles Richard Morris
10 February 1912	John Howard Vaughan	James Jelley

Central district was divided into Central District No. 1 and Central District No. 2 by the Constitution Act Further Amendment Act 1913 (No. 1148), each of which would have four representatives.^[3] The act provided that the sitting members should decide amongst themselves which three represented each of the two new districts. Their decision was^[4]

Central District No. 1 — Jelley, Vaughan, and Wilson
Central District No. 2 — Klauer, Styles, Wallis

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References

1 2 Constitution Act Further Amendment Act 1881 (SA)
↑ "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836-2007: SA Parliament" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
1 2 The Constitution Further Amendment Act 1913 (SA)
↑ "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL". The Register (Adelaide) . Vol. LXXIX, no. 20, 958. South Australia. 13 January 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 14 December 2018– via National Library of Australia.

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[1881act-1] 1 2 Constitution Act Further Amendment Act 1881 (SA)

[Record-2] "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836-2007: SA Parliament" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[1913act-3] 1 2 The Constitution Further Amendment Act 1913 (SA)

[4] "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL". The Register (Adelaide) . Vol. LXXIX, no. 20, 958. South Australia. 13 January 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 14 December 2018– via National Library of Australia.

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