Hartley
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Hartley highlighted
Electoral district of Hartley (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created1977
MPVincent Tarzia
PartyLiberal Party of Australia (SA)
NamesakeJohn Anderson Hartley
Electors24,489 (2018)
Area15.65 km2 (6.0 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°53′43″S 138°39′56″E / 34.89528°S 138.66556°E / -34.89528; 138.66556
Electorates around Hartley:
Torrens Torrens Morialta
Dunstan Hartley Morialta
Bragg Bragg Bragg
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Hartley is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after John Anderson Hartley, the public servant responsible for creating much of South Australia's public education system. It is a 15.65 km² suburban electorate in Adelaide's northeast, taking in the suburbs of Campbelltown, Hectorville, Magill, Newton, Paradise and Tranmere.

Hartley was created at the electoral redistribution of 1976 as a marginal Labor seat, and was first contested at the 1977 state election by then Deputy Premier Des Corcoran, who had moved from the more marginal seat of Coles after a redistribution erased Labor's majority there. He was succeeded by Terry Groom. The 1991 redistribution erased Groom's majority and made the seat marginally Liberal. Believing this made Hartley unwinnable, Groom tried to gain preselection for a safer seat, only to be turned down. He resigned from the Labor Party and served out the rest of his term as an independent. The seat subsequently fell to Groom's 1989 challenger, Joe Scalzi at the 1993 election amid that year's massive Liberal landslide. Scalzi was nearly defeated at the 1997 election, in which his margin was reduced to a paper-thin 0.7 percent, making Hartley the Liberals' most marginal seat—a status that remained unchanged in 2002 as Labor won government. Scalzi was swept away amidst the landslide Labor victory at the 2006 election, conceding defeat to Labor's Grace Portolesi, and failed to regain the seat at the 2010 election. A redistribution saw Labor's majority reduced from an already-marginal 2.3 percent to a paper-thin 0.1 percent. Liberal Vincent Tarzia defeated Labor's Portolesi at the 2014 election.

Members for Hartley

Member Party Term
  Des Corcoran Labor 1977–1982
  Terry Groom Labor 1982–1991
  Independent 1991–1993
  Joe Scalzi Liberal 1993–2006
  Grace Portolesi Labor 2006–2014
  Vincent Tarzia Liberal 2014–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Hartley.[edit]
2022 South Australian state election: Hartley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Vincent Tarzia 11,591 51.0 +9.5
Labor Trent Ames 8,511 37.4 +10.5
Greens Baeley Dear 2,627 11.6 +6.3
Total formal votes 22,729 96.9
Informal votes 717 3.1
Turnout 23,446 89.6
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Vincent Tarzia 12,179 53.6 −3.0
Labor Trent Ames 10,550 46.4 +3.0
Liberal hold Swing−3.0

Notes

  1. ↑ Electoral District of Hartley (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

References

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