Electoral district of West Torrens
| West Torrens South Australia—House of Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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Interactive map of electoral district boundaries from the 2022 state election[a] | |||||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Dates current | 1857–1902, 1915–1938, 1956–1970, 2002–present | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Tom Koutsantonis | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Labor | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | City of West Torrens | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 25,777 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 18.3 km2 (7.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°56′9″S 138°32′55″E / 34.93583°S 138.54861°E | ||||||||||||||
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West Torrens is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the City of West Torrens (which is so-named because of its location on the River Torrens), it is a 25.1 km² suburban electorate in Adelaide's west. It includes the suburbs and areas of Brooklyn Park, Cowandilla, Flinders Park, Hilton, Hindmarsh, Keswick Terminal, Marleston, Mile End, Mile End South, Netley, Richmond, Southwark,[2] Thebarton, Torrensville, Underdale and West Richmond, as well as parts of Allenby Gardens, Lockleys, Welland and West Hindmarsh.
West Torrens has had several incarnations, first as a Legislative Council district, then four times as a South Australian House of Assembly electoral district.
- It was first used as district in the Legislative Council, from 1851 until 1857, with Charles Simeon Hare and then Thomas Reynolds being the members.[3]
- From 1857 it became a House of Assembly district, returning two members until it was abolished as a name at the 1902 election.
- At the 1915 election, it was recreated as a House of Assembly seat returning two members, being abolished again at the 1938 election when single-member districts were introduced.[3]
- In 1955 it was recreated to replace the abolished seat of Thebarton for the 1956 election, the first time that the district was represented by a single member. It was abolished at the 1970 election and replaced with the electoral district of Peake.
- It reverted to its original name for the 2002 election, after a redistribution.
Members
| First incarnation (1857–1902) (Two-member electorate) | |||||||
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| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| Luther Scammell | 1857–1860 | James Cole | 1857–1860 | ||||
| Thomas Magarey | 1860–1862 | George Morphett | 1860–1861 | ||||
| Randolph Stow | 1861–1862 | ||||||
| Henry Strangways | 1862–1871 | Augustine Stow | 1862–1865 | ||||
| John Pickering | 1865–1868 | ||||||
| G. T. Bean | 1868–1870 | ||||||
| John Pickering | 1870–1870 | ||||||
| W. H. Bean | 1870–1871 | ||||||
| James Boucaut | 1871–1875 | John Pickering | 1871–1878 | ||||
| Benjamin Taylor | 1875–1876 | ||||||
| J. M. Sinclair | 1876–1878 | ||||||
| W. J. Magarey | 1878–1881 | W. H. Bean | 1878–1884 | ||||
| F. E. Bucknall | 1881–1887 | ||||||
| Arthur Harvey | 1884–1887 | ||||||
| Benjamin Gould | 1887–1893 | Benjamin Nash | 1887–1890 | ||||
| T. H. Brooker | 1890–1902 | ||||||
| Frank Hourigan | Labor | 1893–1901 | |||||
| Second incarnation (1915–1938) (Two-member electorate) | |||||||
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| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| Henry Chesson | Labor | 1915–1917 | Thompson Green | Labor | 1915–1917 | ||
| National | 1917–1918 | National | 1917–1918 | ||||
| Alfred Blackwell | Labor | 1918–1931 | John McInnes | Labor | 1918–1931 | ||
| Parliamentary Labor | 1931–1934 | Parliamentary Labor | 1931–1934 | ||||
| Labor | 1934–1938 | Labor | 1934–1938 | ||||
| Third incarnation (1956–1970) (Single-member electorate) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| Fred Walsh | Labor | 1956–1965 | |
| Glen Broomhill | Labor | 1965–1970 | |
| Fourth incarnation (2002–present) (Single-member electorate) | |||
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| Member | Party | Term | |
| Tom Koutsantonis | Labor | 2002–present | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labor | Tom Koutsantonis | 11,802 | 52.6 | −2.3 | |
| One Nation | Judith Aldridge | 4,045 | 18.0 | +18.0 | |
| Greens | Sam Bannon | 3,854 | 17.2 | ±0.0 | |
| Liberal | Sarika Sharma | 2,174 | 9.7 | −18.2 | |
| Family First | Anna Wamayi | 390 | 1.7 | +1.7 | |
| Australian Family | Mathew Wilson | 179 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
| Total formal votes | 22,444 | 97.4 | +0.4 | ||
| Informal votes | 599 | 2.6 | −0.4 | ||
| Turnout | 23,043 | 88.6 | −0.6 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Tom Koutsantonis | 16,439 | 73.2 | +4.4 | |
| One Nation | Judith Aldridge | 6,005 | 26.8 | +26.8 | |
| Labor hold | |||||
Notes
- ↑ "2024 EDBC Final Report Appendices". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 27 December 2025.
- ↑ "2026 Electoral District of West Torrens" (PDF). Archived from the original on 11 June 2026. Retrieved 19 July 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - 1 2 "Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 – 2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
- ↑ "West Torrens - SA Election 2026". ABC News.