Hurtle Vale is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly, located in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election.[3]
| Hurtle Vale South Australia—House of Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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 2022 boundaries shown green in Adelaide area | |||||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Created | 2018 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Nat Cook | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Australian Labor Party | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Sir James Hurtle Fisher | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 26,093 (2018)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 20.61 km2 (8.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°06′S 138°33′E / 35.1°S 138.55°E | ||||||||||||||
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| Electoral District map[2] | |||||||||||||||
Hurtle Vale is a new electorate replacing the electoral district of Fisher. It is named after Sir James Hurtle Fisher, the same as its predecessor. Hurtle Vale is further southwest than Fisher was before the redistribution, with overlap only in the northeast of Hurtle Vale with the southwest of Fisher.[4] At the time of the redistribution, 9000 electors from Fisher remained in Hurtle Vale. 10,000 moved with the suburb of Morphett Vale from Reynell and smaller numbers from Mawson and Mitchell.[1]
At its creation, Hurtle Vale was projected to be notionally held by the Labor Party with a swing of 1.7% required to lose it.[3]: Appendix 12 Nat Cook, who won Fisher at a by-election in 2014 for Labor, won Hurtle Vale at the 2018 election.
Geography
editAt its creation, Hurtle Vale contained the suburbs of Old Reynella, Reynella East, Woodcroft as well as part of Happy Valley and Morphett Vale.[4]
Members for Hurtle Vale
edit| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nat Cook | Labor | 2018–present | |
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Nat Cook | 12,161 | 53.8 | +7.4 | |
| Liberal | Nick Robins | 6,021 | 26.6 | −4.7 | |
| Greens | Joseph Johns | 1,850 | 8.2 | +1.2 | |
| Family First | David John Sires | 1,022 | 4.5 | +4.5 | |
| Independent | Rob De Jonge | 915 | 4.0 | +4.0 | |
| Australian Family | Lionel Zschech | 641 | 2.8 | +2.8 | |
| Total formal votes | 22,610 | 95.7 | |||
| Informal votes | 1,019 | 4.3 | |||
| Turnout | 23,629 | 89.1 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Nat Cook | 14,813 | 65.5 | +7.2 | |
| Liberal | Nick Robins | 7,797 | 34.5 | −7.2 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +7.2 | |||
Notes
edit- ^ a b "Redistribution Report Appendices". 2016. p. Appendix 9. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ Electoral District of Hurtle Vale (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
- ^ a b Hurtle Vale (Map). South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 8 July 2017.