Electoral district of Prospect (South Australia)

Former South Australian state electoral district This article is about the former South Australian state electorate. For the former Australian federal electorate, see Division of Prospect. For the New South Wales state electorate, see Electoral district of Prospect.

Australian electorate

Prospect South Australia—House of Assembly
State	South Australia
Created	1938
Abolished	1956
Namesake	Prospect, South Australia
Demographic	Metropolitan

Prospect was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1938 to 1956.

The seat of Prospect was abolished and replaced by the new seat of Enfield for the 1956 election.

The current Prospect booths are marginal Labor, with the suburb represented by the marginal Liberal seat of Adelaide up to Regency Road, with the small northern remainder of Prospect represented by the fairly safe Labor seat of Enfield.

Members

	Party	Term
Elder Whittle	Liberal and Country	1938–1944
Bert Shard	Labor	1944–1947
Elder Whittle	Liberal and Country	1947–1953
Jack Jennings	Labor	1953–1956

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Prospect (South Australia)

References

"Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 - 2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2014.

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Former electoral districts of South Australia

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Labor (28)	Adelaide Badcoe Cheltenham Croydon Davenport Dunstan Elder Elizabeth Enfield Florey Gibson Giles Hurtle Vale Kaurna King Lee Light Mawson Newland Playford Port Adelaide Ramsay Reynell Taylor Torrens Waite West Torrens Wright
Liberal (14)	Black Bragg Chaffey Colton Finniss Flinders Frome Hammond Hartley Heysen Morialta Morphett Schubert Unley
Independent (5)	Kavel MacKillop Mount Gambier Narungga Stuart

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