Electoral district of Norwood
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Norwood is an electoral district
of the House of Assembly
in the Australia
n state of South Australia
. It is named after its surrounding geographical area, Norwood, South Australia
. Norwood is a 14.2 km² urban electorate in Adelaide
's inner eastern suburbs. It includes the suburbs of Beulah Park
, College Park
, Evandale
, Firle
, Hackney
, Joslin
, Kent Town
, Marden
, Maylands
, Norwood
, Payneham South
, Royston Park
, St Morris, St Peters, Stepney
, Trinity Gardens
, Vale Park
as well as parts of Kensington
, Klemzig
and Payneham
.
Norwood has been an electoral district since 1938, usually as a marginal seat which has changed hands between the Australian Labor Party
and the Liberal Party
multiple times. It is synonymous with former Premier of South Australia Don Dunstan
, who held the seat from 1953 until 1979. It was also held by prominent Labor minister and now Australian head to the International Baccalaureate Organization
and University of Adelaide
alumni organization Greg Crafter from 1980 until 1993. The Liberals reclaimed the seat at the 1993 state election in a landslide following the collapse of the State Bank
, through John Cummins who was then defeated by Labor's Vini Ciccarello
at the 1997 state election with a 1.5% margin. At the 2002 state election, it was whittled down to 0.5% but was increased to 4.2% at the 2006 state election. Ciccarello was defeated in the 2010 state election by Liberal candidate Steven Marshall
, which marked the first time in the seat's history that Labor was in government without the seat of Norwood.
South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts
Since 1970, the South Australian House of Assembly has consisted of 47 single-member electoral districts consisting of approximately the same number of enrolled voters...
of the House of Assembly
South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.- Overview :...
in the Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n state of South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
. It is named after its surrounding geographical area, Norwood, South Australia
Norwood, South Australia
Norwood is a suburb of Adelaide, about 4 km east of the Adelaide city centre. The suburb is in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, the oldest South Australian local government municipality, with a city population over 34,000.-History:...
. Norwood is a 14.2 km² urban electorate in Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
's inner eastern suburbs. It includes the suburbs of Beulah Park
Beulah Park, South Australia
Beulah Park is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Burnside.Beulah Park Post Office opened around 1949 and closed in 1975.-References:...
, College Park
College Park, South Australia
College Park is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It has been ranked the most expensive suburb in South Australia, followed by Medindie.-References:...
, Evandale
Evandale, South Australia
-References:...
, Firle
Firle, South Australia
-References:...
, Hackney
Hackney, South Australia
-References:...
, Joslin
Joslin, South Australia
-References:...
, Kent Town
Kent Town, South Australia
Kent Town is an inner urban suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters.-History:The suburb was named after Dr Benjamin Archer Kent, who established a farm and flour mill on which the suburb now stands.....
, Marden
Marden, South Australia
Marden is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. The suburb's borders are divided between arterial roads such as Lower Portrush and O.G. Road.-History:...
, Maylands
Maylands, South Australia
Maylands is a suburb of Adelaide located within the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters, and bounded by the main roads Portrush Road and Magill Road.- History :...
, Norwood
Norwood, South Australia
Norwood is a suburb of Adelaide, about 4 km east of the Adelaide city centre. The suburb is in the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, the oldest South Australian local government municipality, with a city population over 34,000.-History:...
, Payneham South
Payneham South, South Australia
Payneham South is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It has traditionally been market gardens but is currently undergoing a building boom in which many smaller houses are being built.Payneham South Post Office closed in 1982....
, Royston Park
Royston Park, South Australia
Royston Park is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. This is a narrow suburb at a little more than 200 m wide. Royston Park is bordered by Joslin and Marden, along with the River Torrens....
, St Morris, St Peters, Stepney
Stepney, South Australia
Stepney is a small triangular near-city suburb of Adelaide within the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters. Stepney contains a mix of retail, manufacturing, professional services and distribution outlets within a cosmopolitan population strongly influenced by post World War II immigration...
, Trinity Gardens
Trinity Gardens, South Australia
Trinity Gardens is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The name is taken from Holy Trinity Church.-History:On 28 March 1840 the trustees of Holy Trinity; Osmond Gilles, Charles Mann and James Hurtle Fisher, were given approximately of land in the area, as Glebe lands, by Pascoe Leger Grenfell...
, Vale Park
Vale Park, South Australia
Vale Park is a suburb of Adelaide in the Town of Walkerville. It was originally a private subdivision named after Vale House, the home of Philip Levi, a pastoral pioneer. -References:...
as well as parts of Kensington
Kensington, South Australia
Kensington is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood, Payneham & St Peters. Unlike the rest of the city, Kensington's streets are laid out diagonally in order to follow Second Creek....
, Klemzig
Klemzig, South Australia
Klemzig is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is the location of the first settlement of German emigrants to Australia in the 19th century and is named after a village near the city of Zuellichau in southeastern Brandenburg in the German state of Prussia, where they...
and Payneham
Payneham, South Australia
Payneham is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It is part of a string of suburbs in Adelaide's north-east with a high proportion of Adelaide's Italian-Australian and French-Australian residents, many of whom can be traced back to the large-scale migration following the...
.
Norwood has been an electoral district since 1938, usually as a marginal seat which has changed hands between the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
and the Liberal Party
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
multiple times. It is synonymous with former Premier of South Australia Don Dunstan
Don Dunstan
Donald Allan "Don" Dunstan, AC, QC was a South Australian politician. He entered politics as the Member for Norwood in 1953, became state Labor leader in 1967, and was Premier of South Australia between June 1967 and April 1968, and again between June 1970 and February 1979.The son of a business...
, who held the seat from 1953 until 1979. It was also held by prominent Labor minister and now Australian head to the International Baccalaureate Organization
International Baccalaureate Organization
The International Baccalaureate , formerly the International Baccalaureate Organization , is an international educational foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and founded in 1968. IB offers three educational programmes for children ages 3–19.The organization's name and logo were changed...
and University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia...
alumni organization Greg Crafter from 1980 until 1993. The Liberals reclaimed the seat at the 1993 state election in a landslide following the collapse of the State Bank
State Bank of South Australia
The State Bank of South Australia was a bank owned by the Government of South Australia. Its collapse in 1991 was a major political event in South Australia...
, through John Cummins who was then defeated by Labor's Vini Ciccarello
Vini Ciccarello
Vincenzina "Vini" Ciccarello , Australian politician, is a former Labor Party MP for the electoral district of Norwood. A mayor of Norwood for seven years, she was a well known identity in the eastern suburbs electorate....
at the 1997 state election with a 1.5% margin. At the 2002 state election, it was whittled down to 0.5% but was increased to 4.2% at the 2006 state election. Ciccarello was defeated in the 2010 state election by Liberal candidate Steven Marshall
Steven Marshall
Steven Spence Marshall is an Australian politician representing the seat of Norwood in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election....
, which marked the first time in the seat's history that Labor was in government without the seat of Norwood.
Members for Norwood
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Nieass Frank Nieass Frank Keen Nieass was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly, representing East Torrens from 1930 to 1933 and Norwood from 1938 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1947.... |
Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
1938–1941 | |
| Albert Moir | Liberal and Country League Liberal and Country League The Liberal and Country League was a major political party in South Australia throughout its forty year existence. Thirty-four years were spent in government, in part due to the electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, introduced after coming to power.Created on 9 June 1932 as the... |
1941–1944 | |
| Frank Nieass Frank Nieass Frank Keen Nieass was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly, representing East Torrens from 1930 to 1933 and Norwood from 1938 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1947.... |
Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
1944–1947 | |
| Albert Moir | Liberal and Country League Liberal and Country League The Liberal and Country League was a major political party in South Australia throughout its forty year existence. Thirty-four years were spent in government, in part due to the electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, introduced after coming to power.Created on 9 June 1932 as the... |
1947–1953 | |
| Don Dunstan Don Dunstan Donald Allan "Don" Dunstan, AC, QC was a South Australian politician. He entered politics as the Member for Norwood in 1953, became state Labor leader in 1967, and was Premier of South Australia between June 1967 and April 1968, and again between June 1970 and February 1979.The son of a business... |
Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
1953–1979 | |
| Greg Crafter | Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
1979–1979 | |
| Frank Webster | Liberal Party of Australia Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
1979–1980 | |
| Greg Crafter | Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
1980–1993 | |
| John Cummins | Liberal Party of Australia Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
1993–1997 | |
| Vini Ciccarello Vini Ciccarello Vincenzina "Vini" Ciccarello , Australian politician, is a former Labor Party MP for the electoral district of Norwood. A mayor of Norwood for seven years, she was a well known identity in the eastern suburbs electorate.... |
Australian Labor Party Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
1997–2010 | |
| Steven Marshall Steven Marshall Steven Spence Marshall is an Australian politician representing the seat of Norwood in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Liberal Party since the 2010 election.... |
Liberal Party of Australia Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
2010–present | |
