| Encounter Bay | |
| State: | sa |
| Created: | 1857 |
| Abolished: | 1902 |
| Namesake: | Encounter Bay |
| Class: | Rural |
Encounter Bay was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian colony (state of Australia from 1901) of South Australia from 1857 to 1902.[1]
At its creation in 1857, it included booths at Goolwa, Port Elliot, Rapid Bay and Yankalilla. It expanded over time with the settlement of the area to include booths at Cape Jervis, Inman Valley and Myponga (1870), Hog Bay and Port Victor (now Victor Harbor) (1875), Kingscote (1878), Bullaparinga (1881), Second Valley (1893, replacing Rapid Bay), Nangkita (1896) and Torrens Vale (1899).[2]
In 2015, the former electorate of Encounter Bay is now divided between the state electorates of Finniss and Hammond.[3] [4]
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Lindsay | 1857–1860 | Benjamin Babbage | 1857–1857 | ||||||
| Henry Strangways | 1858–1862 | ||||||||
| John Lindsay | 1860–1865 | ||||||||
| David Sutherland | 1862–1868 | ||||||||
| William Everard | 1865–1870 | ||||||||
| Neville Blyth | 1868–1870 | ||||||||
| Arthur Lindsay | 1870–1871 | Emil Wentzel | 1870–1871 | ||||||
| Thomas Reynolds | 1871–1873 | William Everard | 1871–1872 | ||||||
| William Rogers | 1872–1875 | ||||||||
| Arthur Lindsay | 1873–1878 | ||||||||
| James Boucaut | 1875–1878 | ||||||||
| John Parsons | 1878–1881 | ||||||||
| William West-Erskine | 1878–1881 | ||||||||
| Henry Downer | 1881–1891 | Simpson Newland | 1881–1887 | ||||||
| Charles Hussey | 1887–1890 | ||||||||
| John Kelly | 1890–1896 | ||||||||
| Defence League | 1891–1896 | ||||||||
| King O'Malley | 1896–1899 | William Carpenter | Labor | 1896–1902 | |||||
| Charles Tucker | 1899–1902 | ||||||||
After Encounter Bay was abolished, Tucker went on to represent the new district of Alexandra from 3 May 1902.[5]