Electoral district of King (South Australia)

King; South Australia—House of Assembly
	2018 boundaries shown in green on Adelaide area map
State	South Australia
Created	2016
MP	Paula Luethen
Party	Liberal Party of Australia
Namesake	Len King AC QC
Electors	27,002 (2016)[1]
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	34.72°S 138.74°E
	Electorates around King:
Footnotes
	Electoral District map[2]

King is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election.[1]

King is named after Len King AC QC, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia and Attorney-General in the Dunstan government.[1]

The Electoral District Boundaries Commission considered that it had renamed the electoral district of Napier to King, but only 1479 of the estimated 27,002 voters in King had previously been voters in Napier from the rural areas of Bibaringa, One Tree Hill, Uleybury, Yattalunga. The majority of voters in King came from Wright in the suburbs of Golden Grove, Greenwith, Salisbury East and from Little Para in the suburbs of Gould Creek, Hillbank, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park.[1]

Geography

At its creation, King contained the suburbs of Bibaringa, Uleybury, Yattalunga, One Tree Hill, Gould Creek, Hillbank, Golden Grove, Greenwith, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park and part of Salisbury East. The northern part is essentially rural and the southern part is suburban. It is on the western foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges at the northern end of Adelaide.

Member		Party	Term
	Paula Luethen	Liberal	2018–present

2018 South Australian state election: King[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paula Luethen	8,932	36.8	−4.7
	Labor	Julie Duncan	8,298	34.1	−7.0
	SA-Best	Giles Rositano	4,519	18.6	+18.6
	Greens	Damon Adams	1,412	5.8	−0.6
	Conservatives	Gary Balfort	1,138	4.7	−3.7
Total formal votes			24,299	96.0	−0.3
Informal votes			1,016	4.0	+0.3
Turnout			25,315	93.1	+4.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Paula Luethen	12,328	50.7	+0.7
	Labor	Julie Duncan	11,971	49.3	−0.7
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+0.7

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