The Division of Port Adelaide is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of South Australia. It is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, covering the area around the Barker Inlet, part of the Gulf Saint Vincent. It stretches from St Kilda in the north down to Grange Road, and is roughly bounded on the east by the Gawler railway line. It also includes the Mawson Lakes area. It includes the suburbs of Findon, Hendon, Exeter, North Have...
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The Division of Port Adelaide is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of South Australia. It is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, covering the area around the Barker Inlet, part of the Gulf Saint Vincent. It stretches from St Kilda in the north down to Grange Road, and is roughly bounded on the east by the Gawler railway line. It also includes the Mawson Lakes area. It includes the suburbs of Findon, Hendon, Exeter, North Haven, Wingfield, Salisbury, Buckland Park and Port Adelaide itself.
The Division was named after the suburb of Port Adelaide, the working port of Adelaide. It was proclaimed at the redistribution of 11 May 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 Federal election. The seat is currently a safe Australian Labor Party seat, the only one out of the federal South Australian seats. The closest that the ALP has ever come to losing the seat was at the 1988 by-election, where Labor candidate Rod Sawford received 55.2 percent of the two-party vote. It...
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