Electoral district of Sturt (South Australia)
| Sturt South Australia—House of Assembly | |
|---|---|
| State | South Australia |
| Dates current | 1857–1902, 1915–1938 |
| Namesake | Charles Sturt |
| Demographic | Metropolitan |
Sturt (The Sturt until 1875) was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia.[1] It was named after the explorer Charles Sturt.
Sturt was one of the initial districts in the first parliament.[1] It was initially centred on Unley, but later broadened to include all or part of Belair, Brighton, Glenelg, Goodwood, Hyde Park, Mitcham, Parkside and Sturt. When recreated in 1915, it also included Hawthorn and Wayville.[2]
Members
[edit]| First incarnation (1857–1902) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | ||
| John Hallett | 1857–1862 | Thomas Reynolds | 1857–1860 | ||||
| Joseph Peacock | 1860–1867 | ||||||
| R. B. Andrews | 1862–1870 | ||||||
| Alexander Murray | 1867–1868 | ||||||
| Joseph Fisher | 1868–1870 | ||||||
| Frederick Spicer | 1870–1870 | ||||||
| William Townsend | 1870–1882 | John Lindsay | 1870–1871 | ||||
| J. H. Barrow | 1871–1874 | ||||||
| William Mair | 1874–1875 | ||||||
| S. J. Way | 1875–1876 | ||||||
| Thomas King | 1876–1881 | ||||||
| Josiah Symon | 1881–1887 | ||||||
| Thomas King | 1882–1885 | ||||||
| S. G. Glyde | 1885–1887 | ||||||
| W. F. Stock | 1887–1893 | John Jenkins | 1887–1902 | ||||
| Thomas Price | Labor | 1893–1902 | |||||
| Second incarnation (1915–1938) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||
| Crawford Vaughan | Labor | 1915–1917 | T. H. Smeaton | Labor | 1915–1917 | Thomas Ryan | Labor | 1915–1917 | |||
| National | 1917–1918 | National | 1917–1921 | National | 1917–1917 | ||||||
| Independent | 1918–1918 | ||||||||||
| Arthur Blackburn | National | 1918–1921 | Edward Vardon | Liberal Union | 1918–1921 | ||||||
| Herbert Richards | Liberal Union | 1921–1923 | George Hussey | Liberal Union | 1921–1923 | Ernest Anthoney | Liberal Union | 1921–1923 | |||
| Liberal Federation | 1923–1930 | Liberal Federation | 1923–1924 | Liberal Federation | 1923–1938 | ||||||
| Edward Vardon | Liberal Federation | 1924–1930 | |||||||||
| Bob Dale | Labor | 1930–1931 | Edgar Dawes | Labor | 1930–1933 | ||||||
| Lang Labor | 1931–1933 | ||||||||||
| Liberal and Country | 1932–1938 | ||||||||||
| Henry Dunks | Liberal and Country | 1933–1938 | Horace Hogben | Liberal and Country | 1933–1938 | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836 to 2009" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
- ^ "History of South Australian elections 1857-2006, volume 1". Electoral Commission of South Australia. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2015.