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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Hindmarsh, South Australia
Western Adelaide: Glenelg, Henley Beach, Plympton, West Lakes
Sitting member: Matt Williams (Liberal), elected 2013
Enrolment at close of rolls: 111,702
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 1.9%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Steve Georganas
Australian Labor Party |
2. Patrick O'Sullivan
Australian Greens |
3. Mark Potter
Family First |
4. Daniel Kirk
Nick Xenophon Team |
5. Matt Williams
Liberal Party |
6. Marina William
Christian Democrats |
7. Alyssa Liu
Animal Justice Party |
2013 results
Statistics and history
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 also has one of the lowest levels of couples with children. It has a high level of people born in non English speaking countries (particularly Greece), and even more whose parents were.
Labor's strongest areas are along the seat's eastern edge, including Ascot park, Cowandilla and Torrensville, while the Liberals dominate the beachside suburbs, particularly Glenelg and Henley Beach. The 2004 redistribution added a strip of coast running as far north as the Labor stronghold of Semaphore.
Members for Hindmarsh include the Labor veteran and Cabinet minister 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. He was twice re-elected before being defeated by the Liberals in 2013, and is again the Labor candidate in 2016.
Matt Williams, Liberal MP for Hindmarsh since 2013, is a lawyer who served as a public servant and ministerial adviser. He was a Senior Policy Officer with the SA Economic Development Board and later a marketing manager with a firm of lawyers. With a margin of only 1.9%, Williams will be pressed to retain this seat if there is any significant swing to Labor in South Australia, even with the advantage of incumbency. A further complication will be Daniel Kirk, a candidate backed by independent Senator Nick Xenophon, who is expected to poll well.
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