ALP 3.9%
Incumbent MP
Rhiannon Pearce, since 2022.
Geography
Northern Adelaide. King covers Craigmore, Hillbank, Greenwith, Golden Grove and Salisbury Park. The seat covers parts of the Salisbury, Playford and Tea Tree Gully council areas.
Redistribution
King underwent some minor changes on its western edge, gaining Craigmore from Elizabeth and losing Salisbury East to Wright. These changes increased the Labor margin from 2.9% to 3.9%.
History
King was created in 2018 as a successor to Napier, but covers an area much closer to the Adelaide city centre.
Terry Hemmings won Napier for the first time at the 1977 election. He held the seat until his retirement in 1993.
Annette Hurley won Napier at the 1993 election. Hurley was elected Deputy Leader of the Opposition in 1997.
In 2002, Hurley switched to the marginal Liberal seat of Light in an attempt to bring the ALP closer to forming government. Hurley missed out, and thus missed out on serving as Deputy Premier in the new Rann government.
Hurley went on to win a Senate seat in 2004. She served on the Labor frontbench from 2005 to 2006, and completed her term in 2011.
Michael O’Brien was elected in Napier in 2002. O’Brien was re-elected twice, and served as a minister from 2009 until he retired in 2014.
Labor’s Jon Gee won Napier in 2014. Gee shifted to the much safer Labor seat of Taylor in 2018, and Liberal candidate Paula Luethen won King.
Luethen only held King for one term, losing in 2022 to Labor’s Rhiannon Pearce.
- Amanda Hendry (Liberal)
- David Kerrison (One Nation)
- Rhiannon Pearce (Labor)
Assessment
While this is a very marginal seat that Labor only won in 2022, the Liberal Party’s current polling suggests they will struggle here.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Rhiannon Pearce | Labor | 10,366 | 43.2 | +8.9 | 43.9 |
| Paula Luethen | Liberal | 9,644 | 40.2 | +3.5 | 38.7 |
| Kate Randell | Greens | 1,347 | 5.6 | -0.2 | 5.7 |
| Alisha Minahan | Family First | 874 | 3.6 | +3.6 | 4.0 |
| Alex Banks | Family Party | 865 | 3.6 | +3.6 | 3.1 |
| Frankie Bray | Animal Justice | 604 | 2.5 | +2.5 | 2.2 |
| Jodi Hutchinson | Real Change | 308 | 1.3 | +1.3 | 1.1 |
| Others | 1.4 | ||||
| Informal | 934 | 3.7 |
2022 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Rhiannon Pearce | Labor | 12,692 | 52.9 | +3.5 | 53.9 |
| Paula Luethen | Liberal | 11,316 | 47.1 | -3.5 | 46.1 |
Booths have been divided into four parts: east, north, south and west.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all four areas, ranging from 50.4% in the east to 62.2% in the north.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP | Total votes | % of votes |
| East | 50.4 | 5,296 | 20.9 |
| North | 62.2 | 4,543 | 17.9 |
| West | 57.1 | 3,243 | 12.8 |
| South | 54.1 | 3,174 | 12.5 |
| Other votes | 50.6 | 9,074 | 35.8 |
Election results in King at the 2022 South Australian state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor and the Liberal Party.