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This article is about the federal electorate. For the South Australian state electorate, see Electoral district of Port Adelaide.
Port Adelaide
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Port Adelaide (green) in South AustraliaCreated: 1949 MP: Mark Butler Party: Labor Namesake: Port Adelaide Area: 253 km² (98 sq mi) Demographic: Inner Metropolitan The Division of Port Adelaide is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of South Australia. It is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, covering the area around the Barker Inlet, part of the Gulf St Vincent. It stretches from St Kilda in the north down to Grange Road, and is roughly bounded on the east by the Gawler railway line. It also includes the Mawson Lakes area. It includes the suburbs of Findon, Woodville, Hendon, Croydon, Exeter, North Haven, Wingfield, Salisbury, Buckland Park, St Kilda and Port Adelaide itself.
The Division was named after the suburb of Port Adelaide, the working port of Adelaide. It was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 Federal election. The seat is currently a safe Australian Labor Party seat with the closest the ALP has ever come to losing it was at the 1988 by-election, where Labor candidate Rod Sawford received 55.2 percent of the two-party vote. It currently stands, after the 2010 vote, at 70.03 percent. Port Adelaide remains the only electorate in South Australia to have voted Labor at every federal election in its existence.
A notable curiosity in recent years was that in the 1998 and 2001 federal elections, the seat was the only one in Australia where a Communist Party candidate, Michael Perth, stood for election. This was the only occasion when the Liberal Party did not preference the One Nation Party last. He achieved less than 1 percent of the vote on each occasion.
The sitting member, Labor's Rod Sawford, retired at the 2007 election, which saw South Australian Labor's historically safe seat easily won by the newly endorsed Labor candidate, unionist and former head of the Left state Labor faction Mark Butler.
Members
Member Party Term Albert Thompson Labor 1949–1963 Fred Birrell Labor 1963–1974 Mick Young Labor 1974–1988 Rod Sawford Labor 1988–2007 Mark Butler Labor 2007–present Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Port AdelaideAustralian federal election, 2010: Port Adelaide Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labor Mark Butler 48,638 53.82 -4.42 Liberal Nigel McKenna 21,615 23.92 -1.29 Greens Kalyna Micenko 13,659 15.11 +6.35 Family First Bruce Hambour 6,467 7.16 +1.38 Total formal votes 90,379 92.82 -2.22 Informal votes 6,991 7.18 +2.22 Turnout 97,370 93.35 -1.52 Two-candidate preferred result Labor Mark Butler 63,295 70.03 +0.28 Liberal Nigel McKenna 27,084 29.97 -0.28 Labor hold Swing +0.28 External links
Electoral Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in South Australia Adelaide · Barker · Boothby · Grey · Hindmarsh · Kingston · Makin · Mayo · Port Adelaide · Sturt · Wakefield
Abolished: Angas (1903-34) · Angas (1949-77) · Bonython · Hawker · South Australia
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