Division of Port Adelaide

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The Division of Port Adelaide is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of South Australia. It is located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, covering the area around the Barker Inlet, part of the Gulf Saint Vincent. It stretches from St Kilda in the north down to Grange Road, and is roughly bounded on the east by the Gawler railway line. It also includes the Mawson Lakes area. It includes the suburbs of Findon, Hendon, Exeter, North Haven, Wingfield, Salisbury, Buckland Park and Port Adelaide itself.

The Division was named after the suburb of Port Adelaide, the working port of Adelaide. It was proclaimed at the redistribution of May 11, 1949, and was first contested at the 1949 Federal election. The seat is currently a safe Australian Labor Party seat. The closest that the ALP has ever come to losing the seat was in 1996, when the John Howard landslide resulted in the two-party preferred vote of Labor to be reduced to 58%. It currently stands, after the 2004 vote, at around 64%.

A notable curiousity in recent years was that in the 1998 and 2001 federal elections, the seat was the only one in Australia where a Communist party candidate, Michael Perth stood for election. This was the only occasion when the Liberal party did not preference the One Nation Party last. He achieved less than 1% of the vote on each occasion.