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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...

. Named after the suburb of the same name, it is a 12.2 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 southern suburbs, taking in the suburbs of Eastwood

Eastwood, South Australia

Eastwood is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Burnside.-Government:Eastwood is covered by the federal Division of Adelaide.At State Government level, Eastwood is a part of the electoral district of Unley.-References:...

, Frewville

Frewville, South Australia

Frewville is a small suburb located in the South Australian city of Adelaide. It is located three kilometres south-east of Adelaide's central business district ....

, Fullarton

Fullarton, South Australia

Fullarton is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Unley.-References:...

, Glenunga

Glenunga, South Australia

Glenunga is a small suburb of 2,539 people in the South Australian city of Adelaide. It is located three kilometres east of the Adelaide central business district . The name Glenunga is taken from an Aboriginal language and was given to the area by the natives before European settlement...

, Highgate

Highgate, South Australia

-Education:*Highgate school is a 10 minute drive from the Adelaide CBD. It employs 65 staff. *Concordia College is a Lutheran secondary school.-References:...

, Hyde Park

Hyde Park, South Australia

Hyde Park is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley.It features King William Road, a popular shopping and dining destination, and Victoria Avenue, a street containing large houses built between the two World Wars....

, Kings Park

Kings Park, South Australia

Kings Park is a small, triangular shaped suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley surrounded by Goodwood Road, Cross Road and the Belair railway line. The nearest railway station is Unley Park.-References:...

, Malvern

Malvern, South Australia

Malvern is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It borders adjacent suburbs of Unley and Parkside to the north, Highgate to the east, Kingswood to the south and Unley Park to the west...

, Myrtle Bank

Myrtle Bank, South Australia

Myrtle Bank is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Unley. The suburb is named after a property near the foothills built in 1842 by William Sanders , who arrived in South Australia in 1838. He named the premises 'Myrtle Bank', because his friend James Gall of Trinity living in...

, Parkside

Parkside, South Australia

Parkside is an inner southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Unley.-History:The suburb was once home to the mental health campus of the Royal Adelaide Hospital...

, Unley

Unley, South Australia

Unley is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The relatively wealthy area lies within the City of Unley. The suburb is the home of the Sturt Football Club, an SANFL team...

, Unley Park

Unley Park, South Australia

Unley Park is a southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. Its postcode is 5061.It is located on the north side of Cross Road and east of the Belair railway line...

as well as parts of Glen Osmond

Glen Osmond, South Australia

Glen Osmond is a small suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Burnside located in the foothills of the Adelaide Hills.-References:...

, Goodwood

Goodwood, South Australia

Goodwood is an inner southern suburb of the city of Adelaide. It neighbours the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds and features several churches in its commercial district...

, Millswood

Millswood, South Australia

Millswood is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It is dissected by Goodwood Road, which travels north to the Adelaide central business district from the southern suburb of Pasadena. Millswood also had its own railway station along the Goodwood-Belair line, but this was...

and Wayville

Wayville, South Australia

Wayville is an inner-southern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It is most notable for its hosting of the Royal Adelaide Show at the Royal Adelaide Showgrounds. The suburb is bordered to the north with the South Park Lands of Adelaide, and to the south with the tramline.Wayville Post Office...

.

Unley was created in 1938 as a conservative seat. It was first contested at the 1938 state election

South Australian state election, 1938

State elections were held in Australia on 19 March 1938. All 39 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League government led by Premier of South Australia Richard L. Butler defeated the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Leader...

, where it was held by conservatives until 1962, when Gil Langley

Gil Langley

Gilbert Roche Andrews "Gil" Langley was an Australian Test cricketer, champion Australian rules footballer and member of parliament, serving as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly....

captured the seat for 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...

. He was replaced by Kym Mayes in 1982, a state government minister, until the 1993 election where he was swept away in a Liberal landslide by Liberal member Mark Brindal

Mark Brindal

Mark Brindal is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly, Adelaide, South Australia, between 1989 and 2006, representing the electorates of Heywood and then Unley.-Early life:Brindal was born in South Australia and was educated...

. Brindal, a minister in the government of John Olsen

John Olsen

John Wayne Olsen, AO was Premier of South Australia between 28 November 1996 and 22 October 2001.-Parliament:Olsen was a member of the Liberal Party and Member of Parliament for more than 20 years...

, relinquished preselection of Unley prior to the 2006 state election, contesting instead the electoral district of Adelaide held by the then Minister for Education, Jane Lomax Smith. Despite a Labor landslide, David Pisoni

David Pisoni

David Gregory Pisoni is a South Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly since 2006, representing the electorate of Unley....

narrowly won despite a challenge from Labor's Michael Keenan

Michael Keenan (South Australian politician)

Michael Keenan is a South Australian politician. He was the Mayor of the City of Unley for 15 years before been beaten by Richard Thorne, a retired businessman, on 11 November 2006. Keenan has run as an Australian Labor Party member and an independent for various state and federal seats at various...

, Unley

City of Unley

The City of Unley, is a Local Government Area in the Adelaide metropolitan region. It is located directly south of the Adelaide city centre. The City of Unley was proclaimed in 1906.-Suburbs:-External links:***...

's mayor, which could be due to the recent redistribution which saw the electorate take in more of the east in Bragg

Electoral district of Bragg

Bragg is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. The seat of Bragg is named after the eminent physicists Bragg – William Henry and his son, William Lawrence. The electorate is largely urban and encompasses a significant portion of the City of...

and less of the west in Ashford

Electoral district of Ashford

Ashford is an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly which includes many of Adelaide's inner south western suburbs. The district forms part of three federal electorates: the Division of Hindmarsh, the Division of Boothby, and the Division of Adelaide.The electorate's name dervives...

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Members for Unley

	Party	Term
John McLeay John McLeay, senior Sir John "Jack" McLeay, KCMG, MM was an Australian politician and the longest-serving Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.- Early life :McLeay was born in Port Clinton, the son of well to do farmers...	Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...	1938–1941
Colin Dunnage	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...	1941–1962
Gil Langley Gil Langley Gilbert Roche Andrews "Gil" Langley was an Australian Test cricketer, champion Australian rules footballer and member of parliament, serving as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly....	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...	1962–1982
Kym Mayes	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...	1982–1993
Mark Brindal Mark Brindal Mark Brindal is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly, Adelaide, South Australia, between 1989 and 2006, representing the electorates of Heywood and then Unley.-Early life:Brindal was born in South Australia and was educated...	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...	1993–2006
David Pisoni David Pisoni David Gregory Pisoni is a South Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly since 2006, representing the electorate of Unley....	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...	2006–present

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