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Florey
South Australia—House of Assembly
Florey; South Australia—House of Assembly
	Electoral district of Florey (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1970
MP	Michael Brown
Party	Australian Labor Party
Namesake	Howard Florey
Electors	26,734 (2018)
Area	21.25 km2 (8.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	34°49′43″S 138°40′46″E / 34.82861°S 138.67944°E
	Electorates around Florey:
Footnotes
	Electoral District map

Florey is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after scientist Howard Florey, who was responsible for the development of penicillin. It is a 21.25 km² (8.20 sq mi) suburban electorate in Adelaide's north-east, taking in the suburbs of Ingle Farm, Modbury North, Para Vista, Pooraka, Valley View, and Walkley Heights, as well as parts of Modbury and Northfield.

Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a notionally safe Labor electorate, and was first contested at the 1970 election. Mostly it was safely held by the Labor party until the 1989 election when it became the minority Labor government's most marginal electorate. Florey was one of the first electorates to fall to the Liberals at the 1993 election landslide. It was regained by Labor's Frances Bedford at the 1997 election.

2018 election edit

Incumbent Frances Bedford resigned from Labor and became an independent on 28 March 2017 after Labor's Jack Snelling won Florey pre-selection for the 2018 election. As an independent, Bedford continued to provide confidence and supply support to the incumbent Labor government and did not make an immediate decision as to whether she would re-contest Florey as an independent.^[2] The 2016 electoral redistribution reassigned two-thirds of Playford voters to Florey. A ReachTEL poll conducted on 2 March 2017 of 606 voters in post-redistribution Florey indicated a 33.4 percent primary vote for Bedford running as an independent which would likely see Labor's Snelling defeated after preferences.^[3] Snelling announced on 17 September 2017 that he had decided not to contest the 2018 election.^[4] The 2018 election was subsequently won by Bedford which was the first time an independent candidate had won an election in the district since its inception.

Members for Florey edit

	Party	Term
Charles Wells	Labor	1970–1979
Harold O'Neill	Labor	1979–1982
Bob Gregory	Labor	1982–1993
Sam Bass	Liberal	1993–1997
Frances Bedford	Labor	1997–2017
Frances Bedford	Independent	2017–2022
Michael Brown	Labor	2022–present

Election results edit

2022 South Australian state election: Florey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Michael Brown	10,866	48.9	+8.7
	Liberal	Janice McShane	6,298	28.4	+7.0
	Greens	Felicity Green	2,294	10.3	+4.5
	Family First	Daniel Masullo	1,428	6.4	+6.4
	Independent	Tessa Kowaliw	1,326	6.0	+6.0
Total formal votes			22,212	95.9
Informal votes			938	4.1
Turnout			23,150	87.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Michael Brown	13,955	62.8	−0.6
	Liberal	Janice McShane	8,257	37.2	+0.6
	Labor notional hold		Swing	−0.6

Notes edit

^ Electoral District of Florey (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Bedford bombshell "won't make much difference", Jay insists". InDaily. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
^ Labor polling shows boundary redraw appeal loss means Jack Snelling could lose to veteran party MP Frances Bedford, 10 March 2017, The Advertiser.
^ "SA Health Minister Jack Snelling resigns from Cabinet and will not contest March election". ABC News. 17 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.