Port Adelaide is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after Port Adelaide, which it surrounds, it is a suburban and industrial electorate on Adelaide's Lefevre Peninsula, and stretches east toward Adelaide's northern suburbs. It contains a mix of seaside residential areas, wasteland and industrial regions. In addition to its namesake suburb of Port Adelaide, the district includes the suburbs of Birkenhead, Cavan, Dry Creek, Ethelton, Exeter, Garden Island, Gillman, Glanville, Largs Bay, Largs North, New Port, North Haven, Osborne, Ottoway, Outer Harbor, Peterhead, Semaphore, Taperoo, Torrens Island, Wingfield, as well as part of Rosewater.

History Port Adelaide has had three incarnations as a South Australian electoral district.

Port Adelaide was the name of an electoral district of the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council from 1851 until its abolition in 1857.

From 1857 until 1902 it was a two-seat multi-member district. From 1902 until 1915 it was a large three-seat multi-member district covering Adelaide's north-west and western suburbs; together with the four-member Adelaide and five-member Torrens, the three districts with a total of 12-members covered the whole of the metropolitan area in the 42 member house. The district returned to two members in 1915, and became a single member district from the 1938 election onward. It was held without interruption by Labor until the district's abolition prior to the 1970 election, and for most of that time was one of Labor's safest seats. The bulk of its territory was split between the neighbouring seats of Semaphore and Price. The last member for this seat's original incarnation, John Ryan, transferred to Price.

The seat was recreated in 2002, essentially as a reconfigured version of Hart (which was itself created in 1993 as a replacement for Semaphore). Like its previous incarnation, it is a comfortably safe Labor seat. The member for Hart, deputy premier and state treasurer Kevin Foley, followed most of his constituents into the recreated seat and won it easily. At the 2006 election, Foley increased his margin from 21.7 percent to 25.7 percent, and gained a majority in all booths. Foley resigned in December 2011 after serving a total of 18 years in the lower house, triggering a by-election held in February 2012. Susan Close retained the seat for Labor, and held it for 14 years, until her retirement at the end of her term in March 2026.

2020 redistribution The following boundary changes occurred in the 2020 redistribution, due to increasing voter enrollments since 2012, putting the electorate 9.1% over the Quota Variance - Bolivar, Globe Derby Park and St Kilda were transferred to the Electoral district of Taylor and Gepps Cross to Electoral district of Enfield.

2024 redistribution The only boundary change following the 2024 redistribution, for the 2026 Election, was the lost of Semaphore South to the Electoral district of Lee.

Members Two members (1857–1902)Member Party Term Member Party Term John Hart Sr.1857–1859  John Hughes 1857–1858  Edward Collinson 1858–1860  William Owen 1860–1862 Patrick Coglin1860–1865 John Hart Sr.1862–1866 David Bower1865–1870  Jacob Smith 1866–1868  Henry Hill 1868–1870  William Quin 1870–1871  Henry Kent Hughes1870–1875  John Duncan 1871–1875 William Quin1875–1880 David Bower 1875–1887  John Hart Jr. 1880–1881  William Mattinson 1881–1890  George Hopkins 1887–1893  Ben Rounsevell 1890–1893  William Archibald Labor 1893–1902  Ivor MacGillivray Labor 1893–1902 Three members (1902–1915)Member Party TermMember Party TermMember Party Term William ArchibaldLabor1902–1910 Ivor MacGillivrayLabor1902–1915  Thomas Brooker 1902–1905  Henry ChessonLabor1905–1915  Thompson Green Labor 1910–1915 Two members (1915–1938)Member Party TermMember Party Term John PriceLabor1915–1925 Ivor MacGillivray Labor 1915–1917   National 1917–1918   John Stanley Verran Labor 1918–1924  Frank CondonLabor1924–1927  John Stanley Verran Labor 1925–1927 John JonasLabor1927–1933  Thomas Thompson Protestant Labor 1927–1930  Albert ThompsonLabor1930–1938  James Stephens Labor 1933–1938 Single-member (1938–1970)Member Party Term  James Stephens Labor 1938–1959   John Ryan Labor 1959–1970Single-member (2002–present)Member Party Term  Kevin Foley Labor 2002–2011  Susan Close Labor 2012–2026  Cheyne Rich Labor 2026–present

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References ECSA profile for Port Adelaide: 2018 ABC profile for Port Adelaide: 2018 Poll Bludger profile for Port Adelaide: 2018