Electoral district of Kaurna

Kaurna; South Australia—House of Assembly
	Electoral district of Kaurna (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1993
MP	Chris Picton
Party	Australian Labor Party (SA)
Namesake	Kaurna people
Electors	26,254 (2018)
Area	44.69 km2 (17.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	35°13′44″S 138°28′12″E
	Electorates around Kaurna:
Footnotes
	Electoral District map[1]

Kaurna is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the Kaurna aboriginal tribe which originally inhabited the Adelaide plains, it is a 44.7 km² semi-urban electorate on Adelaide's far-southern beaches, taking in the suburbs of Hackham, Huntfield Heights, Maslin Beach, Moana, Noarlunga Downs, Old Noarlunga, Port Noarlunga South, Seaford, Seaford Heights, Seaford Meadows and Seaford Rise, as well as part of Onkaparinga Hills. It is one of only two state districts named after South Australia's indigenous people (the other being the electoral district of Narungga).

History

Replacing the abolished seat of Baudin, Kaurna was created in the 1991 electoral distribution as a marginal Labor seat. It was first contested at the 1993 election, where it was won by Liberal candidate Lorraine Rosenberg as part of a large swing throughout the state. However, she was swept away at the 1997 election, with John Hill reclaiming the seat for Labor. For most of the time since then, it has been a fairly safe to safe Labor seat, as its predecessor Baudin had been for most of its existence.

He resigned from parliament at the 2014 election, replaced by Labor's Chris Picton.

Members for Kaurna

	Party	Term
Lorraine Rosenberg	Liberal	1993–1997
John Hill	Labor	1997–2014
Chris Picton	Labor	2014–present

Election results

2018 South Australian state election: Kaurna[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Chris Picton	13,162	57.6	+10.9
	Liberal	Simon McMahon	7,342	32.1	+0.5
	Greens	Sean Cullen-MacAskill	2,358	10.3	+1.7
Total formal votes			22,862	95.7	−0.9
Informal votes			1,025	4.3	+0.9
Turnout			23,887	91.0	+7.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Chris Picton	14,843	64.9	+5.7
	Liberal	Simon McMahon	8,019	35.1	−5.7
	Labor hold		Swing	+5.7

Notes

Electoral District of Kaurna (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
State Election Results - District Results for Kaurna, ECSA.

References

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[1] Electoral District of Kaurna (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

[2] State Election Results - District Results for Kaurna, ECSA.