Electoral district of Hurtle Vale

Hurtle Vale is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly, located in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election.[3]

Hurtle Vale
South AustraliaHouse of Assembly
2022 boundaries shown green in Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created2018
MPNat Cook
PartyAustralian Labor Party
NamesakeSir James Hurtle Fisher
Electors26,093 (2018)[1]
Area20.61 km2 (8.0 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates35°06′S 138°33′E / 35.1°S 138.55°E / -35.1; 138.55
Electorates around Hurtle Vale:
Black Black Davenport
Reynell Hurtle Vale Davenport
Reynell Kaurna Heysen Kaurna Heysen
Footnotes
Electoral District map[2]

Hurtle Vale is a new electorate replacing the electoral district of Fisher. It is named after Sir James Hurtle Fisher, the same as its predecessor. Hurtle Vale is further southwest than Fisher was before the redistribution, with overlap only in the northeast of Hurtle Vale with the southwest of Fisher.[4] At the time of the redistribution, 9000 electors from Fisher remained in Hurtle Vale. 10,000 moved with the suburb of Morphett Vale from Reynell and smaller numbers from Mawson and Mitchell.[1]

At its creation, Hurtle Vale was projected to be notionally held by the Labor Party with a swing of 1.7% required to lose it.[3]: Appendix 12  Nat Cook, who won Fisher at a by-election in 2014 for Labor, won Hurtle Vale at the 2018 election.

Geography

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At its creation, Hurtle Vale contained the suburbs of Old Reynella, Reynella East, Woodcroft as well as part of Happy Valley and Morphett Vale.[4]

Members for Hurtle Vale

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Member Party Term
  Nat Cook Labor 2018–present

Election results

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2022 South Australian state election: Hurtle Vale
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Nat Cook 12,161 53.8 +7.4
Liberal Nick Robins 6,021 26.6 −4.7
Greens Joseph Johns 1,850 8.2 +1.2
Family First David John Sires 1,022 4.5 +4.5
Independent Rob De Jonge 915 4.0 +4.0
Australian Family Lionel Zschech 641 2.8 +2.8
Total formal votes 22,610 95.7
Informal votes 1,019 4.3
Turnout 23,629 89.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Nat Cook 14,813 65.5 +7.2
Liberal Nick Robins 7,797 34.5 −7.2
Labor hold Swing +7.2

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Redistribution Report Appendices". 2016. p. Appendix 9. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  2. ^ Electoral District of Hurtle Vale (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  4. ^ a b Hurtle Vale (Map). South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 8 July 2017.

References

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