Hindmarsh
Edge of their Seats
Marginal ALP, 0.1%
Hindmarsh is a suburban seat that embraces the areas between the city and the coast in Adelaide’s west, including Glenelg, Plympton, West Beach, Richmond, Torrensville, Flinders Park, Lockleys and Henley Beach, plus a strip running north from Grange to Semaphore Park. The 2001 census showed it had the highest percentage out of every seat in Australia of people aged sixty-five and over.
Labor’s Steve Georganas took the seat off the Liberals in 2004. Hindmarsh had been held by Labor from its creation in 1903 until a redistribution made it sufficiently marginal for Liberal Christine Gallus to win in 1993 and hold until her retirement at the last election.
Hindmarsh is the most marginal Labor seat in the country, but despite this most observers do not expect Georganas to be at risk. His Liberal opponent is Rita Bouras.
Declared Candidates
- Rita
Bouras, Liberal Party
- Steve
Georganas, Australian Labor Party
- Heidi
Robbins, What Women Want
- Timothy
White, Greens
- Jenny
Williams, Australian Democrats
2 PARTY PREFERRED BOOTH SWINGS 2004 ELECTION
2 PARTY PREFERRED VOTE BY BOOTH 2004 ELECTION
LEGEND:
Blue: Liberals
Red: Labor
Size of figure reflects the number of votes cast at booth
OTHER SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MARGINALS