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THE POLL BLUDGER PORT ADELAIDE
The electorate of Port Adelaide was created in 1949 from an area that had previously made Hindmarsh a safe seat for Labor. It currently includes Port Adelaide itself and inner northern suburbs including Seaton and West Croydon. The latter area does not include the coastal strip immediately south of Port Adelaide from Semaphore Park to Grange, which it lost to Hindmarsh in the 2004 redistribution in exchange for nearly 30,000 voters at Salisbury and Parafield from abolished Bonython. Labor's strength in the seat was such that the Liberals did not field candidates in 1954 and 1955, when it was opposed only by the Communist Party (which was still fielding candidates as recently as 1983). Rod Sawford assumed the seat at a by-election in 1988 upon the resignation of the rather more high-profile Mick Young, member since 1974. With Sawford now retiring, Labor has nominated Mark Butler of the Left faction Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union. Butler is descended from two former conservative premiers (his great- and great-great-grandfathers), both of whom were called Sir Richard Butler. | |