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Electoral district of Morphett

State electoral district of South Australia


Summary

State electoral district of South Australia

FieldValue
nameMorphett
statesa
image
captionInteractive map of electoral district boundaries from the 2022 state election
created1977
mpStephen Patterson
mp-partyLiberal
namesakeSir John Morphett
electors26419
electors_year2018
area14
classMetropolitan
coordinates
near-nwGulf St Vincent
near-nColton
near-neBadcoe
near-eBadcoe
near-seElder
near-sGibson
near-swGulf St Vincent
near-wGulf St Vincent
footnotes

| mp-party = Liberal | near-nw = Gulf St Vincent | near-n = Colton | near-ne = Badcoe | near-e = Badcoe | near-se = Elder | near-s = Gibson | near-sw = Gulf St Vincent | near-w = Gulf St Vincent Morphett is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. The electorate is located approximately 10 km slightly south of west of the Adelaide city centre, bounded by the Holdfast Bay coastline to the west and Marion Road to the east. It is approximately 14 sqkm in area, and includes the suburbs of Camden Park, Glenelg, Glenelg East, Glenelg North, Glenelg South, Glengowrie, Morphettville, Novar Gardens, and Park Holme, as well as a portion of Somerton Park.

Created in 1976 following the electoral redistribution which took effect from the 1977 election, the electoral district was named after Sir John Morphett (1809–1892) who lived in the Morphettville area and was speaker of the enlarged Legislative Council in 1851, and president of the elected Legislative Council from 1865 to 1873.

On its creation, Morphett was a notionally marginal Liberal electorate. However, it was won by the Dunstan Labor government in its landslide 1977 election victory, and was Labor's only marginal seat. The Liberals won it at the 1979 election and have held it ever since. The Liberal hold on the electorate was considerably strengthened when the safe Liberal seat of Glenelg was abolished at the 1983 redistribution and largely merged with Morphett.

Duncan McFetridge resigned from the Liberal Party and moved to the crossbench as an independent in May 2017 after losing Liberal pre-selection for Morphett to City of Holdfast Bay mayor Stephen Patterson ahead of the 2018 election. Patterson was successful at the election.

Members for Morphett

MemberPartyTerm
Terry GroomLabor
John OswaldLiberal
Duncan McFetridgeLiberal
Independent2017–2018
Stephen PattersonLiberal

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Morphett

Notes

References

References

  1. "2024 EDBC Final Report Appendices".
  2. (1 May 2017). "Duncan McFetridge quits Liberal Party after Morphett preselection loss". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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