Electoral district of East Adelaide explained

East Adelaide
State:sa
Created:1862
Abolished:1902
Namesake:East Adelaide
Class:Metropolitan

East Adelaide was an electoral district of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1851 to 1857 and an electoral district of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1862 to 1902.[1]

First incarnation

East Adelaide was a seat of the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council from 1851 until that council's abolition in 1857. Francis Stacker Dutton was the elected member for the duration.

Second incarnation

The lower house electoral district was created when the Electoral district of City of Adelaide was abolished in 1862 and East Adelaide and Electoral district of West Adelaide created. The district of Adelaide was ultimately recreated in 1902 by the recombination of East Adelaide and West Adelaide.

The electorate was created by the Electoral Districts Act (No. 20) of the South Australian parliament in 1861 but it was not until the state election of 1862 election that candidates were first elected to represent East Adelaide.[2] The electorate at its creation included all of the City of Adelaide (South Adelaide, North Adelaide and the Adelaide parklands) east of the centres of King William Street, Poole street, John Street and O'Connell Street.

In 1872 the area of the electorate shrunk when the Electoral district of North Adelaide was created by excising those parts of East and West Adelaide south of the River Torrens.[3]

Successful 1891 Wallaroo by-election candidate Richard Hooper was the first Labor member of the House of Assembly, but was not a member of the newly formed United Labor Party (ULP), instead serving as an Independent Labor member. The 1892 East Adelaide by-election saw ULP candidate John McPherson win the seat. It was the first time the ULP had won a seat in the House of Assembly, with electoral success to be followed at the 1893 colonial election, winning 10 of 54 seats and the balance of power, allowing the ULP to support the liberal opposition led by Charles Kingston in defeating the conservative government led by John Downer.

Members

MemberPartyTermMemberPartyTerm
 William Bakewell1862–1864 Philip Santo1862–1868
 Thomas Reynolds1864–1870
  Robert Cottrell1868–1875
 David Murray1870–1871 
 John Cox Bray1871–1892 
 William Kay1875–1878
 George Fowler1878–1881
 Thomas Johnson1881–1884
 George Dutton Green1884–1886
 Theodor Scherk1886–1902
 John McPhersonLabor1892–1897 
 James HutchisonLabor1898–1902 

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 - 2007 . Parliament of South Australia . 18 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190311113513/http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf . 11 March 2019 . dead .
  2. Web site: Electoral Act (No 20 of 24 and 25 Vic, 1861) . South Australia Numbered Acts . Australasian Legal Information Institute . 1861 . 3 September 2018.
  3. Web site: Electoral Districts Act (No 27 of 35 and 36 Vic, 1872) . South Australia Numbered Acts . Australasian Legal Information Institute . 1872 . 22 August 2018.

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