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Location: Adelaide: Glenelg, Henley Beach, Plympton, West Lakes Division named for: Sir John Hindmarsh first Governor of South Australia 1836-38 Median weekly family income: $891 (83rd highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 14.3% (55th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 26.2% (61st highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 20.4% (1st highest) Couple families with dependent children: 29.8% (146th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 21.1% (119th highest) Sitting member: Steve Georganas (Labor), elected 2004, 2007 Born: 13 June 1959, Adelaide. Career: Financial services underwriter, electorate officer, ministerial adviser to Hon Jay Weatherill MHA 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 08.1 1998 two-party majority: Liberal 01.2 Effect of 2001 redistribution: no change 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 01.9 Effect of 2004 redistribution: 00.8 shift to Labor 2004 two-party majority: Labor 00.1 2007 two-party majority: Labor 05.1 
2004 enrolment: 98,594 2007 enrolment: 98,942 (+00.4%) Hindmarsh has existed since South Australia was first divided into electorates in 1903. Before 1949 it included the Port Adelaide area and was one of the safest Labor seats in Australia, and even after the creation of the seat of Port Adelaide in 1949 it remained a very strong Labor seat. Successive redistributions, however, pushed the seat southwards into more middle-class areas, and this combined with demographic change to weaken the seat for Labor. It finally fell to the Liberals in 1993 and was not regained until 2004. Hindmarsh has an ageing population, with the highest proportion of over-65s of any electorate, and one of the lowest levels of couples with children. It has a high level of people born in non English speaking countries, and even more whose parents were - both the major party candidates in 2007 were second-generation Greek-Australians. Members for Hindmarsh include the Labor veteran and Cabibnet ministers Norman Makin and Clyde Cameron. Christine Gallus won the seat for the Liberals in 1993. She was very popular and Labor's Steve Georganas twice narrowly failed to defeat her before finally winning the seat when she retired in 2004. In 2007 polled 72% of the two-party vote at Cowandilla, Semaphore Park South and Torrensville, and also topped 70% at Mile End. The Liberals' best booths were Glenelg South (58%) and Grovene (57%). | |  Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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