Electoral district of Glenelg (South Australia)

Former South Australian state electoral district

This article is about the historical South Australian state electorate. For the historical Victorian state electorate, see Electoral district of Glenelg (Victoria).

Australian electorate

Glenelg
South Australia—House of Assembly

State| South Australia
Created| 1938
Abolished| 1985
Namesake| Glenelg, South Australia
Demographic| Metropolitan

Glenelg was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1938 to 1985.[1]

The Holdfast Bay area has long been a conservative stronghold, and Glenelg was one of the few Adelaide-area seats where the Liberal and Country League consistently did well. The pattern was broken at the 1965 state election, when Glenelg was one of two Labor gains that helped Labor finally beat the Playmander and end 33 years of LCL rule. Labor retained the seat even as it lost government in 1968. The LCL regained it in 1970 even as Labor won a convincing victory in the first election held after a major electoral reform gave Adelaide a majority of seats in the legislature. The seat quickly reverted to its traditional status as a safely conservative seat.

Glenelg was abolished in a boundary redistribution prior to the 1985 election with much of the area merged into the seat of Morphett.

## Members

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Member | Party | Term

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| William Fisk | Independent | 1938–1940
| Frank Smith | Liberal and Country | 1941–1947
| Baden Pattinson | Liberal and Country | 1947–1965
| Hugh Hudson | Labor | 1965–1970
| John Mathwin | Liberal and Country | 1970–1974
| Liberal | 1974–1985

## Election results

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Main article: Electoral results for the district of Glenelg (South Australia)

## References

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1. ^ "Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 - 2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2014.

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Electoral districts of the South Australian House of Assembly

Labor (28)|

* Adelaide
* Badcoe
* Cheltenham
* Croydon
* Davenport
* Dunstan
* Elder
* Elizabeth
* Enfield
* Florey
* Gibson
* Giles
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* Lee
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* Waite
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Liberal (14)|

* Black
* Bragg
* Chaffey
* Colton
* Finniss
* Flinders
* Frome
* Hammond
* Hartley
* Heysen
* Morialta
* Morphett
* Schubert
* Unley

Independent (5)|

* Kavel
* MacKillop
* Mount Gambier
* Narungga
* Stuart

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