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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Adelaide, South Australia
Named for: City of Adelaide (after Queen Adelaide (1792-1849), wife of King William IV) (Adelaide's original name was Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen. It was anglicised to Adelaide when she married William in 1818.)
Inner Adelaide: Croydon, Prospect, Regency Park, Torrensville, Unley
Enrolment at 2019 election: 121,606
Enrolment at 2022 election: 129,760 (+07.0)
1999 republic referendum: Yes 56.4
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 70.1
2023 Voice referendum: No 50.7
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Sitting member: Steve Georganas (Labor): Elected (for Hindmarsh) 2004, 2007, 2010. Defeated 2013. Elected 2016, (for Adelaide) 2019, 2022
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 8.5%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 7.7%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 4.0%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 4.6%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 8.2%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 11.9%
Status: Fairly safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Announced candidates:
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Steve Georganas
Australian Labor Party |
Amy Grantham
Liberal Party |
Division of Adelaide
Adelaide has existed since South Australia was first divided into electorates in 1903.
It has always occupied a block of inner-city suburbs, gradually expanding at successive
redistributions at the population shifted to the suburbs. It has been a fairly safe Labor
seat for much of its existence, although it has some strong Liberal areas. It has one of
highest concentrations of professionally employed people of any Labor-held electorate,
plus the low levels of families with dependent children and dwellings being purchased
typical of inner city seats.
Charles Kingston, the first member for Adelaide, was a famously radical Premier of SA and
one of the giants of the Federation period. Recent members have included
Chris Hurford, a
minister in the Hawke government.
Trish Worth (Liberal) was a Parliamentary Secretary from
1997 to 2004, but was defeated by Labor's
Kate Ellis in 2004, a reflection of the general
trend of inner city seats to Labor. Ellis was a minister throughout the Rudd-Gillard Government, and
retired at the 2019 election.
The 2018 redistribution in SA abolished the safe Labor seat of
Port Adelaide, which forced the
sitting member, Mark Butler, to move to
Hindmarsh, which absorbed much of Port Adelaide. As a result,
Steve Georganas, member for Hindmarsh, moved to Adelaide, which took in part of the former Hindmarsh and
was significantly improved for Labor.
Steve Georganas, Labor MP for Hindmarsh from 2004 to 2013 and 2016 to 2019, and for Adelaide since 2019,
was a financial services underwriter, electorate officer and ministerial adviser before entering politics. His
Greek background served him well in Hindmarsh but has less relevance in Adelaide. He has not advanced beyond
the backbench and will turn 63 in June 2022. To gain Labor preselection for Adelaide Georganas abandoned his
affliation to Butler's Left faction and joined the Right, led in SA by Senator
Don Farrell.
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