Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1857–1860 explained

This is a list of members of the first parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly, which sat from 22 April 1857 until 1 March 1860. The members were elected at the inaugural 1857 election.

Name	Electorate	Start Date	End Date	Terms
^2				1857–1860, 1862–1870
^6				1857
				1857–1865
^1				1857–1860, 1862–1864
^8				1858–1860, 1871–1874
				1857–1868, 1870–1877
^8				1857–1858
^14				1857–1859
				1857–1860
^13				1858–1860
^4				1857
^1	Barossa			1857, 1857
^1	Barossa			1857, 1857
	Barossa			1857–1868, 1870–1871
				1857–1868, 1868
				1857–1862, 1862–1865
				1857–1862
^3	East Torrens			1857–1875, 1877–1884
				1857–1862
				1857–1861
^2	Yatala			1857, 1878–1881
^15	Port Adelaide			1857–1859, 1862–1866, 1868–1873
	Yatala			1857–1860
^5				1858–1865, 1875–1883, 1884–1895
	Gumeracha			1857–1861, 1867–1871
^13	Port Adelaide			1857–1858
				1857–1860, 1861–1880
^9	Mount Barker			1857–1858, 1870–1882, 1884–1890
^5	Victoria			1857
	Encounter Bay			1857–1860, 1870–1871, 1873–1878
^16				1857–1859
^12				1857–1858
^7, 10	Light			1858
^12				1858–1862
				1857–1865
	Onkaparinga			1857–1868
				1857–1860, 1862–1870
^14				1857–1860, 1859–1862
^17				1857–1859
				1857–1862, 1862, 1864–1870, 1871–1872, 1872–1873
^9	Mount Barker			1858–1860, 1864–1865, 1868, 1868–1870, 1872–1875
	West Torrens			1857–1860
^10	Light			1858–1860
^7	Light			1857
^11				1858–1860, 1871–1875
^6	Encounter Bay			1858–1871
^11				1857–1858
^4	Onkaparinga			1857–1882
				1857–1862
^3	East Torrens			1857
	Noarlunga			1857–1860

Notes

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^1	Barossa	Horace Dean was initially declared elected, but the result was overturned by the Court of Disputed Returns on 7 May 1857.	Dean won the resulting by-election on 1 June 1857
		Dean was again unseated by the Court on 13 June 1857.	On 13 June 1857 the court declared William Bakewell duly elected.
		(Dean was subsequently elected as member for Hastings, New South Wales in December 1869 and July 1870, but was disqualified both times.)
^2	Yatala	Charles Simeon Hare resigned on 12 May 1857.	Richard Andrews won the resulting by-election on 5 June 1857.
^3	East Torrens	George Waterhouse resigned on 8 September 1857.	Lavington Glyde won the resulting by-election on 6 October 1857.
^4	Onkaparinga	William Dawes resigned on 24 November 1857.	William Townsend won the resulting by-election on 23 December 1857.
^5	Victoria	Robert Leake resigned on 8 December 1857.	George Charles Hawker won the resulting by-election on 5 January 1858.
^6	Encounter Bay	Benjamin Babbage resigned on 17 December 1857.	Henry Strangways won the resulting by-election on 15 January 1858.
^7	Light	Carrington Smedley resigned on 23 December 1857.	William Maturin won the resulting by-election on 8 February 1858.
^8	East Torrens	Charles Bonney resigned on 26 January 1858.	John Henry Barrow won the resulting by-election on 6 April 1858.
^9	Mount Barker	Friedrich Krichauff resigned on 12 March 1858.	William Rogers won the resulting by-election on 16 September 1858.
^10	Light	William Maturin resigned on 1 July 1858.	David Shannon won the resulting by-election on 9 September 1858.
^11	City of Adelaide	Robert Torrens resigned on 1 July 1858.	Judah Solomon won the resulting by-election on 16 September 1858.
^12	The Burra and Clare	Morris Marks resigned on 2 August 1858.	Edward McEllister won the resulting by-election on 9 September 1858.
^13	Port Adelaide	John Hughes resigned on 24 September 1858.	Edward Collinson won the resulting by-election on 11 October 1858.
^14	City of Adelaide	William Henville Burford resigned on 29 April 1859.	William Owen won the resulting by-election on 13 May 1859.
^15	Port Adelaide	Seat declared vacant 23 August 1859 – John Hart absent without leave.	No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1860 election.
^16	Flinders	Marshall MacDermott accepted the office of special magistrate on 1 September 1859.	No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1860 election.
^17	The Burra and Clare	Edward Peake accepted the office of state manager of railways on 1 October 1859.	No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1860 election.

References

• Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836-2007, Parliament of SA, www.parliament.sa.gov.au