Hindmarsh – Australia 2019

ALP 8.4%

Incumbent MP

  • Steve Georganas, member for Hindmarsh since 2016, previously 2004-2013.
  • Mark Butler, member for Port Adelaide since 2007.

Geography
Hindmarsh covers the western coastal suburbs of Adelaide, stretching from Torrens Island and Port Adelaide to West Beach and Camden Park.

Redistribution
Hindmarsh has been completely redrawn, shifting north to take in about half of the abolished seat of Port Adelaide. The new seat takes in Grange, Henley Beach, Tennyson, Kidman Park, Fulham, Netley, West Beach, Camden Park and Semaphore Park from Hindmarsh. It also takes in Findon, Hendon, Woodville, Athol Park, St Clair, Port Adelaide and Largs Bay from Port Adelaide. The former seat of Hindmarsh was very marginal, with a Labor margin of 0.6%, but the new seat has a much safer 8.4% margin.

History
Hindmarsh is an original South Australian seat, having been created for the 1903 election. In the first 100 years of the seat, Labor held it for all but one term, before losing the seat again in 2013.

The seat was first held by James Hutchison of the ALP, who held the seat from 1903 to his death in 1909, and he was succeeded by William Archibald at the 1910 election. Archibald served in Andrew Fisher’s third government as Minister for Home Affairs. Archibald followed Prime Minister Billy Hughes out of the ALP in 1916 over conscription, and briefly served as a minister in Hughes’ National Labor minority government before he returned to the backbenches in the new Nationalist government. Archibald was reelected in 1917 before being defeated in 1919.

After Labor won the seat back in 1919, they held it for the next 74 years continuously. The seat was won in 1919 by Norman Makin, who went on to serve as Speaker during the Scullin government and as a minister under Curtin and Chifley, before leaving Parliament in 1946 to serve as Ambassador to the United States.

Albert Thompson won the seat in 1946, and held it for one term before moving to the new seat of Port Adelaide. Hindmarsh was won in 1949 by Clyde Cameron, who was a major figure in the ALP during the long years of opposition of the 1950s and 1960s, serving as Deputy Leader and a leading figure in the Left of the party. He served in the Whitlam ministry from 1972 to 1975 and continued as an opposition backbencher until his retirement in 1980.

The seat was held by John Scott from 1980 until his retirement in 1993. The 1993 election saw the neighbouring marginal Liberal seat of Hawker abolished, and sitting Member for Hawker Christine Gallus won Hindmarsh off the ALP. This was the only time the ALP had lost the seat to another party in ninety years.

Gallus served as a Shadow Minister in the last term of the Keating government and served in the Howard government as a Parliamentary Secretary in the early 2000s before retiring in 2004. In the election to succeed her, Steve Georganas of the ALP defeated Liberal candidate Simon Birmingham by only 108 votes.

Georganas was re-elected in 2007 and 2010, increasing his margin to 5.7%.

In 2013, Georganas lost Hindmarsh to Liberal candidate Matt Williams with a swing of almost 8%.

Georganas returned to Hindmarsh in 2016, defeating Williams in a very close result.

Candidates

  • Rajan Vaid (Conservative National)
  • Rose Morris (United Australia)
  • Mark Butler (Labor)
  • Alison Kelty (Animal Justice)
  • Jake Hall-Evans (Liberal)
  • Matt Farrell (Greens)
  • Assessment
    Hindmarsh has been redrawn as a reasonably safe seat for Labor.

    2016 result – Hindmarsh

    Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
    Steve Georganas Labor 33,355 34.0 -3.9 40.0
    Matt Williams Liberal 39,570 40.4 -5.8 31.3
    Daniel Kirk Nick Xenophon Team 14,774 15.1 +15.1 17.0
    Patrick O’Sullivan Greens 6,401 6.5 -2.3 6.6
    Mark Potter Family First 1,977 2.0 -1.0 2.8
    Bin Liu Animal Justice 1,456 1.5 +1.5 1.8
    Marina William Christian Democratic Party 499 0.5 +0.5 0.5
    Informal 4,232 4.1

    2016 two-party-preferred result – Hindmarsh

    Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
    Steve Georganas Labor 49,586 50.6 +2.5 58.4
    Matt Williams Liberal 48,446 49.4 -2.5 41.6

    2016 result – Port Adelaide

    Candidate Party Votes % Swing
    Mark Butler Labor 46,314 48.2 -2.3
    Michael Slattery Nick Xenophon Team 17,970 18.7 +18.7
    Emma Flowerdew Liberal 17,884 18.6 -7.7
    Matthew Carey Greens 6,683 7.0 -1.7
    Bruce Hambour Family First 4,483 4.7 -2.9
    Janine Clipstone Animal Justice 2,078 2.2 +2.2
    Jenalie Salt Christian Democratic Party 597 0.6 +0.6
    Informal 5,927 5.8

    2016 two-candidate-preferred result – Port Adelaide

    Candidate Party Votes %
    Mark Butler Labor 62,274 64.9
    Michael Slattery Nick Xenophon Team 33,735 35.1

    2016 two-party-preferred result – Port Adelaide

    Candidate Party Votes % Swing
    Mark Butler Labor 67,119 69.9 +5.9
    Emma Flowerdew Liberal 28,890 30.1 -5.9

    Booth breakdown

    Booths have been divided into three parts: central, north and south.

    The ALP won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in the centre (56.8%) and the north (65.5%). The Liberal Party managd a narrow 50.6% majority in the south.

    The Nick Xenophon Team came third, with a primary vote ranging from 14.1% in the south to 18.6% in the north.

    Voter group NXT prim % ALP 2PP % Total votes % of votes
    North 18.6 65.5 30,959 29.8
    Central 16.2 56.8 29,119 28.0
    South 14.1 49.4 17,814 17.2
    Other votes 17.9 59.5 16,094 15.5
    Pre-poll 18.0 55.6 9,827 9.5

    Election results in Hindmarsh at the 2016 federal election
    Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and Nick Xenophon Team primary votes.

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    8 COMMENTS

    1. The only game in town is the Labor preselection.

      A smart Labor party would run Butler here, Georganas in Boothby, and either Penny Wong or Jay Weatherill in Adelaide (with the other one in the Senate).

      However all of them are Labor left figures and looking at who just became the state leader in SA, the right faction will probably have something to say about that outcome. If I remember correctly the right are “entitled” to the seat of Adelaide.

    2. Mick quinlivan

      Yep – Butler takes this one, Georganas takes Adelaide. Both easy wins for them….I wonder who from the ALP will contest Boothby.

    3. I thought the ALP had sorted itself out – Butler lives in (new) Hindmarsh, and will run there. Georganis lives in (new) Adelaide, and will run there.

      I’m not sure where Champion lives now, but I expect he will stick to Spence rather than try for Grey even if he lives there. His office address has always been in what is now Spence. His website profile no longer claims the Kapunda links that it used to, but emphasises Elizabeth and Salisbury.

    4. Cheltenham by election will be soon, I think an Independent will gain the By-election, (Cheltenham is in this division so i thought i’d put it here since the page isn’t up yet,) I don’t see Labor holding it.

    5. Cheltenham has long been one of Labor’s safest seat. In the absence of any strong, electable independent, that’s a pretty outlandish call.

    6. Please post the Cheltenham By-election page if possible Ben sometime, I wan’t to post my view on where it will go

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