Electoral district of Florey

Florey
South Australia—House of Assembly

Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Florey highlighted

Electoral district of Florey (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State South Australia
Created 1970
MP Frances Bedford
Party Independent
Namesake Howard Florey
Electors 22,913 (2014)
Area 16.1 km2 (6.2 sq mi)
Demographic Metropolitan
Coordinates 34°49′43″S 138°40′46″E / 34.82861°S 138.67944°E / -34.82861; 138.67944Coordinates: 34°49′43″S 138°40′46″E / 34.82861°S 138.67944°E / -34.82861; 138.67944

Florey is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after scientist Howard Florey, who was responsible for the development of penicillin. It is a 16.1 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's north-east, taking in the suburbs of Modbury, Modbury Heights and Modbury North, as well as parts of Gilles Plains, Hope Valley, Para Hills, Para Vista, Redwood Park, Ridgehaven, Valley View and Wynn Vale.

Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a notionally safe Labor seat, and was first contested at the 1970 election. Mostly it was safely held by the party until the 1989 election when it became the minority Labor government's most marginal seat. Florey was one of the first seats to fall to the Liberals at the 1993 election landslide. The effect was short-lived, however, and Florey was subsequently regained by Labor's Frances Bedford at the 1997 election as a marginal seat.

Bedford resigned from Labor and became an independent on 28 March 2017 after Labor's Jack Snelling won Florey pre-selection partly as a result of the major electoral redistribution which moved two-thirds of Playford voters in to Florey ahead of the 2018 election. As with the rest of the crossbench, Bedford will continue to provide confidence and supply support to the incumbent Labor government. She has not decided if she will re-contest Florey as an independent.[1] A ReachTEL poll conducted on 2 March 2017 of 606 voters in post-redistribution Florey indicated a 33.4 percent primary vote for Bedford running as an independent which would likely see Labor's Snelling defeated after preferences.[2]

Members for Florey

Member Party Term
  Charles Wells Labor 1970–1979
  Harold O'Neill Labor 1979–1982
  Bob Gregory Labor 1982–1993
  Sam Bass Liberal 1993–1997
  Frances Bedford Labor 1997–2017
  Independent 2017–present

Election results

South Australian state election, 2014: Florey[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Frances Bedford 8,983 43.8 −1.1
Liberal Damian Wyld 8,317 40.6 +3.0
Family First Richard Bunting 1,677 8.2 +1.5
Greens Kim Thomson 1,517 7.4 +0.9
Total formal votes 20,494 96.7 +0.2
Informal votes 708 3.3 −0.2
Turnout 21,202 92.5 −1.2
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Frances Bedford 10,755 52.5 −1.1
Liberal Damian Wyld 9,739 47.5 +1.1
Labor hold Swing −1.1

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bedford bombshell "won't make much difference", Jay insists". InDaily. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Labor polling shows boundary redraw appeal loss means Jack Snelling could lose to veteran party MP Frances Bedford: The Advertiser 10 March 2017
  3. ↑ 2014 State Election Results – Florey, ECSA.
  4. ↑ 2014 State Election Results – Florey, ABC.
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