Electoral district of King (South Australia)

King
South AustraliaHouse of Assembly
2022 boundaries shown in green on Adelaide area map
StateSouth Australia
Created2016
MPRhiannon Pearce
PartyAustralian Labor Party
NamesakeLen King AC QC
Electors27,002 (2016)[1]
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°43′S 138°44′E / 34.72°S 138.74°E / -34.72; 138.74
Electorates around King:
Light Schubert Schubert
Elizabeth King Newland
Ramsay Wright Newland
Footnotes
Electoral District map[2]

King is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election.[1]

King is named after Len King AC QC, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia and Attorney-General in the Dunstan government.[1]

The Electoral District Boundaries Commission considered that it had renamed the electoral district of Napier to King, but only 1479 of the estimated 27,002 voters in King had previously been voters in Napier from the rural areas of Bibaringa, One Tree Hill, Uleybury, Yattalunga. The majority of voters in King came from Wright in the suburbs of Golden Grove, Greenwith, Salisbury East and from Little Para in the suburbs of Gould Creek, Hillbank, Salisbury Heights, Salisbury Park.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  2. ^ Electoral District of King (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]