Elder
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Elder highlighted
Electoral district of Elder (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created1993
MPNadia Clancy
PartyAustralian Labor Party
NamesakeSir Thomas Elder
Electors26,110 (2018)
Area18.3 km2 (7.1 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°59′25″S 138°35′3″E / 34.99028°S 138.58417°E / -34.99028; 138.58417
Electorates around Elder:
Badcoe Morphett Unley Unley
Badcoe Gibson Elder Waite
Black Davenport Waite
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Elder is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after nineteenth-century businessman and philanthropist Sir Thomas Elder. Elder is an 18.3 km² suburban electorate in Adelaide's inner south, taking in the suburbs of Clapham, Clovelly Park, Colonel Light Gardens, Cumberland Park, Daw Park, Hawthorn, Lower Mitcham, Melrose Park, Mitchell Park, Panorama, Pasadena, St Marys, Tonsley, and Westbourne Park.

Elder was created as a marginal Labor electorate at the 1991 electoral redistribution taking suburbs in from much of the abolished Walsh and also from the redistributed Mitchell. Elder was won by Liberal David Wade with an 8.0 percent swing at the landslide Liberal victory of the 1993 election. Wade was defeated at the 1997 election – although he experienced a smaller than average swing of −6.1 percent, he only had a margin of 3.4 percent, and was easily defeated by Labor candidate Pat Conlon. Conlon was re-elected at the 2002 election and became a senior minister in the Rann government. The redistribution prior to the 2014 election reduced Labor's margin from 3.6 percent to 2.0 percent. Conlon retired in 2014 and Elder was retained by Labor's Annabel Digance.

The 2016 redistribution ahead of the 2018 election changed Elder from a 1.8 percent Labor seat to a notional 4.3 percent Liberal seat.[2]

Members for Elder

Member Party Term
  David Wade Liberal 1993–1997
  Patrick Conlon Labor 1997–2014
  Annabel Digance Labor 2014–2018
  Carolyn Power Liberal 2018–2022
  Nadia Clancy Labor 2022–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Elder.[edit]
2022 South Australian state election: Elder
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Nadia Clancy 10,587 43.4 +10.1
Liberal Carolyn Power 9,289 38.1 −1.3
Greens Brock Le Cerf 2,402 9.9 +2.3
Liberal Democrats Joshua Smith 730 3.0 +3.0
Family First Cathryn Crosby-Wright 619 2.5 +2.5
Animal Justice Matt Pastro 450 1.8 +1.8
Real Change Eldert Hoebee 303 1.2 +1.2
Total formal votes 24,380 96.8
Informal votes 805 3.3
Turnout 25,185 90.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Nadia Clancy 13,552 55.6 +7.5
Liberal Carolyn Power 10,828 44.4 −7.5
Labor gain from Liberal Swing+7.5

Notes

  1. ↑ Electoral District of Elder (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. ↑ Final Report (PDF): Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission 8 December 2016

References

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