| Hindmarsh Australian House of Representatives Division |
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Division of Hindmarsh (green) in South Australia |
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| Created: | 1903 |
| MP: | Steve Georganas |
| Party: | Labor |
| Namesake: | Sir John Hindmarsh |
| Area: | 73 km² (28 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Inner Metropolitan |
The Division of Hindmarsh is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia covering the western gulfside suburbs of Adelaide.
The division was created in 1903 and is named for Sir John Hindmarsh, who was Governor of South Australia 1836-38. For many years it was one of the safest Labor seats in the country, but boundary and demographic changes have made it a marginal seat. Before 1949, Hindmarsh included most of Port Adelaide.
The seat has one of the highest proportions of citizens over the age of 65 in Australia. It has long been dominated by working-class families and aged pensioners, but it is now attracting new wealth to its seaside suburbs, which used to be contained within the division of Hawker. The Adelaide Airport is located in the electorate, and noise pollution is a prominent local issue, besides the aged care needs of the relatively elderly population.
Prominent sitting members have included Norman Makin, who was Speaker in the Scullin government and a cabinet minister in the Curtin and Chifley governments, and Clyde Cameron, who was a cabinet minister in the Whitlam government.
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| James Hutchison | Labor | 1903–1909 | |
| William Archibald | Labor | 1910–1916 | |
| Nationalist | 1916–1919 | ||
| Norman Makin | Labor | 1919–1946 | |
| Albert Thompson | Labor | 1946–1949 | |
| Clyde Cameron | Labor | 1949–1980 | |
| John Scott | Labor | 1980–1993 | |
| Christine Gallus | Liberal | 1993–2004 | |
| Steve Georganas | Labor | 2004–present | |
| Australian federal election, 2010: Hindmarsh | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Steve Georganas | 39,736 | 44.54 | -2.67 | |
| Liberal | Jassmine Wood | 34,831 | 39.04 | -1.04 | |
| Greens | Matthew Fisher | 10,773 | 12.07 | +5.09 | |
| Family First | Bob Randall | 2,563 | 2.87 | +0.75 | |
| Democrats | Greg Croke | 767 | 0.86 | -1.14 | |
| Climate Sceptics | Adrian Paech | 554 | 0.62 | +0.62 | |
| Total formal votes | 89,224 | 94.83 | -1.33 | ||
| Informal votes | 4,868 | 5.17 | +1.33 | ||
| Turnout | 94,092 | 93.86 | -1.51 | ||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Steve Georganas | 49,698 | 55.70 | +0.65 | |
| Liberal | Jassmine Wood | 39,526 | 44.30 | -0.65 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +0.65 | |||
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