Electoral district of Elder

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
South Australia—House of Assembly
Electoral district of Elder (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created1993
MPCarolyn Power
PartyLiberal Party of Australia
NamesakeSir Thomas Elder
Electors26,110 (2018)
Area18.3 km2 (7.1 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°59′25″S 138°35′3″E
Electorates around Elder:
Badcoe Morphett Unley Unley
Badcoe Gibson Elder Waite
Black Davenport Waite
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

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–present

Election results
Main article: Electoral results for the district of Elder
2018 South Australian state election: Elder[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Carolyn Habib 9,812 42.3 −5.1
Labor Annabel Digance 7,347 31.7 −2.3
SA-Best Michael Slattery 3,257 14.0 +14.0
Greens Jody Moate 1,679 7.2 −3.5
Conservatives Shawn Van Groesen 669 2.9 −1.7
Dignity Nick Schumi 433 1.9 −1.3
Total formal votes 23,197 96.7 −0.2
Informal votes 794 3.3 +0.2
Turnout 23,991 91.9 +2.5
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Carolyn Habib 12,609 54.4 +0.3
Labor Annabel Digance 10,588 45.6 −0.3
Liberal hold Swing+0.3

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
  3. State Election Results – District Results for Elder, ECSA.
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