Electoral district of Florey

Florey is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after scientist Howard Florey, who was responsible for the development of penicillin. It is a 21.25 km2 (8.20 sq mi) suburban electorate in Adelaide's north-east, taking in the suburbs of Ingle Farm, Modbury North, Para Vista, Pooraka, Valley View, and Walkley Heights, as well as parts of Modbury and Northfield.

Florey
South Australia—House of Assembly
Electoral district of Florey (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created1970
MPFrances Bedford
PartyIndependent
NamesakeHoward Florey
Electors26,734 (2018)
Area21.25 km2 (8.2 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°49′43″S 138°40′46″E
Electorates around Florey:
Port Adelaide Playford Wright
Port Adelaide Florey Newland
Enfield Torrens Morialta
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a notionally safe Labor electorate, and was first contested at the 1970 election. Mostly it was safely held by the Labor party until the 1989 election when it became the minority Labor government's most marginal electorate. Florey was one of the first electorates to fall to the Liberals at the 1993 election landslide. It was regained by Labor's Frances Bedford at the 1997 election.

2018 election

Incumbent Frances Bedford resigned from Labor and became an independent on 28 March 2017 after Labor's Jack Snelling won Florey pre-selection for the 2018 election. As an independent, Bedford continued to provide confidence and supply support to the incumbent Labor government and did not make an immediate decision as to whether she would re-contest Florey as an independent.[2] The 2016 electoral redistribution reassigned two-thirds of Playford voters to Florey. 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.[3] Snelling announced on 17 September 2017 that he had decided not to contest the 2018 election.[4] The 2018 election was subsequently won by Bedford which was the first time an independent candidate had won an election in the district since its inception.

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
Main article: Electoral results for the district of Florey
2018 South Australian state election: Florey[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Rik Morris 7,451 32.8 −17.1
Independent Frances Bedford 6,962 30.6 +30.6
Liberal Gagan Sharma 4,768 21.0 −13.4
Conservatives John Peake 1,132 5.0 −4.1
Greens Adam Gatt 1,101 4.8 −1.8
Animal Justice Geoff Russell 885 3.9 +3.9
Dignity Suzi Waechter 418 1.8 +1.8
Total formal votes 22,717 93.3 −2.8
Informal votes 1,621 6.7 +2.8
Turnout 24,338 91.0 −0.4
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Rik Morris 13,852 61.0 +1.9
Liberal Gagan Sharma 8,865 39.0 −1.9
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Frances Bedford 12,746 56.1 +56.1
Labor Rik Morris 9,971 43.9 −15.2
Independent gain from Labor SwingN/A

See also

Notes
  1. Electoral District of Florey (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. "Bedford bombshell "won't make much difference", Jay insists". InDaily. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  3. Labor polling shows boundary redraw appeal loss means Jack Snelling could lose to veteran party MP Frances Bedford, 10 March 2017, The Advertiser.
  4. "SA Health Minister Jack Snelling resigns from Cabinet and will not contest March election". ABC News. 17 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  5. State Election Results – District Results for Florey, ECSA.

References
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