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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Hindmarsh, South Australia
Named for: Captain John Hindmarsh (1785-1860), Governor of South Australia 1836-38
Western Adelaide: Grange, Henley Beach, Novar Gardens, Port Adelaide, West Lakes
Enrolment at 2019 election: 122,664
Enrolment at 2022 election: 128,627 (+05.0)
1999 republic referendum: No 50.5
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 63.3
2023 Voice referendum: No 61.6
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Sitting member: Mark Butler (Labor): Elected (for Port Adelaide) 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, (for Hindmarsh) 2019, 2022
Minister for Health and Aged Care
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.1%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.7%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 1.9%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 0.4%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 6.5%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 8.9%
Status: Fairly safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Division of Hindmarsh
Hindmarsh has existed since South Australia was first divided into electorates in 1903. From 1903 to 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.
The 2018 redistribution abolished Port Adelaide, and as a result Hindmarsh was returned to something like its
pre-1949 borders. It still includes some Liberal-voting areas such as Henley Beach and Novar Gardens, but overall it is now
once again a fairly safe Labor seat.
Before the redistribution Hindmarsh had an ageing population, with the highest proportion of over-65s of any electorate,
and also had one of the lowest levels of couples with children. These features are less pronounced on the new
boundaries. It will still have a high level of people born in non English speaking countries (particularly Greece), and even
more whose parents were.
Past members for Hindmarsh include the Labor veterans and Cabinet 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. He was twice re-elected before being defeated by the Liberals in 2013, then won the seat
back in 2016.
As a result of the redistribution, in 2019 Georganas moved to the vacant seat of
Adelaide, and the Labor MP for Port Adelaide, Mark Butler, contested Hindmarsh.
Mark Butler, Labor MP for Port Adelaide from 2007 to 2019 and for Hindmarsh since 2019, was South Australian state secretary
of the Liquour, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union before his election. Despite this, he comes from a prominent
Adelaide establishment family. He is the great-grandson and great-great-grandson respectively of two conservative premiers of
South Australia,
Sir Richard B Butler and
Sir Richard L Butler. He was a parliamentary secretary from 2009 and a minister from
2010. He was Minister for Climate Change and for the Environment, Heritage and Water in the last months of the Rudd-Gillard
Government. He is now Minister for Health and Ageing. He was federal president of the ALP 2015-18.
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