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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Electoral District Of Badcoe

Badcoe 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.

Badcoe lies south-west of the Adelaide city centre and includes the suburbs of Keswick, Ashford, Forestville, Everard Park, Black Forest, Clarence Park, Clarence Gardens, Kurralta Park, Glandore, Edwardstown, Ascot Park, North Plympton, South Plympton and parts of Millswood and Plympton. At its creation, Badcoe was projected to be notionally held by the Labor Party with a swing of 4.2% required to lose it.

Badcoe is named after Peter John Badcoe VC (1934–1967) who grew up in Adelaide before joining the Australian Army in 1952. He served in artillery and infantry and was killed in the Vietnam War.

Badcoe was created as a replacement for Ashford, which was abolished at the 2018 state election. In February 2017 the member for Ashford, Steph Key, announced that she did not intend to contest the 2018 election.

Members for Badcoe

Member Party Term
  Jayne Stinson Labor 2018–present

Election results

2022 South Australian state election: Badcoe
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jayne Stinson 11,780 50.0 +11.2
Liberal Jordan Dodd 6,876 29.2 −3.6
Greens Finn Caulfield 2,697 11.4 +3.9
One Nation Tristan Iveson 722 3.1 +3.1
Animal Justice Fiona Eckersley 571 2.4 +2.4
Australian Family Nicole Hussey 488 2.1 +2.1
Family First Ken Turner 428 1.8 +1.8
Total formal votes 23,562 96.2
Informal votes 931 3.8
Turnout 24,493 89.1
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Jayne Stinson 15,263 64.8 +10.1
Liberal Jordan Dodd 8,299 35.2 −10.1
Labor hold Swing +10.1