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. The northern part is essentially semi rural and the southern part suburban. It is on the western foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges at the northern end of metropolitan Adelaide. King is named after Len King , a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia and Attorney-General of South Australia in the second Dunstan government ministry.
History The 2016 redistribution by The Electoral District Boundaries Commission considered that it had renamed the electoral district of Napier to King when it created a new marginal seat, but only 1479 of the estimated 27,002 voters in King had previously been voters in Napier from the semi 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.
The 2020 redistribution moved the northern boundary south to Uley Road which has resulted in the movement of the northern semi rural areas of Bibaringa, Uleybury and Yattalunga in the City of Playford, which were part of the former Electorate of Napier, to the large rural electorate of Schubert.
At the 2024 redistribution, King gained part of the suburb of Craigmore from Elizabeth in the North and lost part of the suburb of Salisbury East to Wright.
Members for King Member Party Term Paula Luethen Liberal 2018–2022 Rhiannon Pearce Labor 2022–present
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References ECSA profile for King: 2018 ABC profile for King: 2018 Poll Bludger profile for King: 2018