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Electoral district of Fisher

Former state electoral district of South Australia


Summary

Former state electoral district of South Australia

FieldValue
nameFisher
statesa
imageFisher Electoral District SA 2014.png
image_altMap of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Fisher highlighted
captionElectoral district of Fisher (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
created1970
abolished2018
namesakeJames Hurtle Fisher
electors25,829
electors_year2014
area94.2
classMetropolitan
coordinates

the South Australian state electorate

| mp-party = Fisher was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It was created in 1970 and named after Sir James Fisher, a colonial politician and the first mayor of Adelaide. It was abolished in a 2016 redistribution and its last MP, Nat Cook was elected to represent its replacement, Hurtle Vale, at the 2018 state election. taking in the suburbs of Aberfoyle Park, Chandlers Hill, Cherry Gardens, Coromandel East, Happy Valley, Reynella East and parts of Clarendon, O'Halloran Hill and Woodcroft.

Before the 1983 electoral redistribution, Fisher took in the Blackwood area and was a safe Liberal seat, held by Stan Evans. The redistribution turned it into a marginal "mortgage belt" seat on a notional Liberal 2.1 percent two-party margin. With the bulk of his base shifted to the neighbouring seat of Davenport, Evans chose to challenge Dean Brown for Liberal preselection in Davenport. Evans lost in a bruising factional battle but chose to stand as an independent and was elected. The seat returned to the Liberal Party in 1989 when Bob Such won the seat, which he held for the following 25 years. Such substantially increased his margin at the 1993 election landslide.

Changes in demographics during the 1990s made Fisher a marginal to fairly safe Liberal seat, but the Liberals lost control of the seat when Such resigned from the party to sit as an independent MP from October 2000. Such successfully retained his seat with an increased margin at the 2002 election and served as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly from 2005 to 2006 in the Mike Rann Labor government.

Such was diagnosed with a brain tumour a week after the 2014 election and died on 11 October. Fisher was abolished as an electoral district as part of the mandatory redistribution following the 2014 state election. The South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission has designated the new seat of Hurtle Vale as its successor, with the new boundaries coming into effect from the 2018 state election. The name was chosen to retain the connection with Sir James Fisher as Hurtle was his middle name. Only the areas bounded by Reynella East, Woodcroft, and Happy Valley, however, were moved into the new seat, which actually takes in much more of the old district of Reynell. The southern parts of Fisher centred around Clarendon were moved to into Heysen. The sitting member chose to contest the 2018 election as a candidate in Hurtle Vale.

Members for Fisher

MemberPartyTerm
Stan EvansLiberal and Country
Liberal1974–1985
Philip TylerLabor
Bob SuchLiberal
Independent Liberal2000–2014
Nat CookLabor

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Fisher

References

References

  1. (28 April 2014). "District of Fisher Background Profile". [[Electoral Commission of South Australia]].
  2. (2014). "Fisher". [[Electoral Commission of South Australia]].
  3. Moran, Brendan. (1986). "Australian Political Chronicle – The Commonwealth: July–December 1985". [[Australian Journal of Politics and History]].
  4. (2004). "Old irritations play out in vote for Evans". [[The Adelaide Review]].
  5. (1990). "Former Member of Parliament Details – Mr Phil Tyler". [[Parliament of South Australia]].
  6. (2014). "Former Member of Parliament Details – Hon Bob Such". [[Parliament of South Australia]].
  7. Green, Antony. (23 March 2014). "South Australian Election 2014 – Fisher Results". [[ABC News (Australia).
  8. Green, Antony. (October 2014). "2014 Fisher By-election". [[ABC News (Australia).
  9. (7 December 2016). "2016 Report of the Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission". [[South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission]].
  10. Green, Antony. (2018). "SA Election 2018 – Electorate: Hurtle Vale". [[ABC News (Australia).
  11. Green, Antony. (2018). "SA Election 2018 – Electorate: Davenport". [[ABC News (Australia).
  12. Green, Antony. (2018). "SA Election 2018 – Electorate: Waite". [[ABC News (Australia).
  13. (15 December 2014). "2014 Fisher by-election – Final Distribution of Preferences". [[Electoral Commission of South Australia]].
  14. (17 December 2014). "2014 By-election results Fisher". [[Electoral Commission of South Australia]].
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