West Adelaide was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1862 to 1902.
The electoral district was created when the Electoral district of City of Adelaide was abolished in 1862 and West Adelaide and East Adelaide were created. The district of Adelaide was ultimately recreated in 1902 by the recombination of West and East Adelaide.
It was created by the Electoral Districts Act (No. 20) of the South Australian parliament in 1861 but it was not until the state election of 1862 election that candidates were first elected to represent West Adelaide. The electorate at its creation included all of the City of Adelaide (South Adelaide, North Adelaide and the Adelaide parklands) west of the centres of King William Street, Poole street, John Street and O'Connell Street.
In 1872 the area of the electorate shrank when the Electoral district of North Adelaide was created by excising those parts of East and West Adelaide south of the River Torrens.
Members MemberPartyTermMemberPartyTerm James Verco 1862–1865 Emanuel Solomon 1862–1865 James Boucaut 1865–1868 Henry Fuller 1865–1870 William Simms 1868–1870 John Darling Sr. 1870–1871 P. B. Coglin 1870–1871 W. K. Simms 1871–1876 Judah Solomon 1871–1875 Thomas Johnson 1875–1878 John Darling Sr. 1876–1878 W. K. Simms 1878–1881 Hugh Fraser 1878–1884 Charles Kingston 1881–1900 A. A. Fox 1884–1887 Lawrence Grayson 1887–1893 Lee Batchelor Labor1893–1901 Bill Denny 1900–1902 Francis Keogh 1901–1902
References Former Members of the Parliament of South Australia