Electoral district of Flinders
Flinders is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after explorer Matthew Flinders, who was responsible for charting most of the state's coastline. It is a 55,260.6 km² coastal rural electorate encompassing the Eyre Peninsula and the coast along the Nullarbor Plain. Based in the town of Port Lincoln, the electorate also includes the towns of Ceduna, Cleve, Cummins, Elliston, Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay and Tumby Bay, as well as many small farming communities.
Flinders is the oldest electorate in the present House of Assembly, having been the only one of the original 17 electorates to survive to the present day. It was a multi-member electorate from 1856 to 1938, as with the rest of the state, and has been single-member since 1938. The electorate is amongst the safest in South Australia for the conservative parties, with the Liberal Party holding a massive margin in the seat despite being out of government. The seat fell to the rival conservative National Party on one occasion, with Peter Blacker representing Flinders from 1973 to 1993, but he was defeated when Kangaroo Island was briefly included in Flinders, and without the advantages of incumbency, was unable to regain his seat when it was removed four years later. It has since remained a safe seat for the Liberal Party.
Members for Flinders since 1938
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