Hammond
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of South Australia with electoral district of Hammond highlighted
Electoral district of Hammond (green) in South Australia
StateSouth Australia
Created1997
MPAdrian Pederick
PartyLiberal Party of Australia (SA)
NamesakeRuby Hammond
Electors25,023 (2018)
Area18,091 km2 (6,985.0 sq mi)
DemographicRural
Coordinates35°18′44″S 139°25′40″E / 35.31222°S 139.42778°E / -35.31222; 139.42778
Electorates around Hammond:
Schubert Chaffey Victoria
Hammond Victoria
Finniss MacKillop Victoria
Footnotes
nearby electorates[1]

Hammond is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after Ruby Hammond, the first indigenous woman to stand for the Federal Parliament. Hammond is a rural electorate east and south-east of Adelaide, covering 18,091 km2 (6,985 sq mi) in the east and upper south-east of the state, and takes in the towns of Callington, Cambrai, Coomandook, Karoonda, Langhorne Creek, Mannum, Nildottie, Peake, Pinnaroo, Purnong and Tailem Bend.

Hammond was created in the 1994 redistribution as a replacement for the electoral district of Ridley, and was first contested at the 1997 election. As it covers a largely conservative rural area, it was easily won by maverick Liberal member Peter Lewis, the former member for Ridley. Lewis briefly and unsuccessfully tried to have the electorate renamed in 1998 on the basis that Ruby Hammond had few ties to the electorate, proposing the revival of the name Murray-Mallee (which had covered most of Hammond's territory from 1985 to 1993), or if a ceremonial name was required, Unaipon, in honour of indigenous writer, preacher and inventor David Unaipon. Lewis was expelled from the Liberal Party in 2000, and successfully recontested the electorate as an independent at the 2002 election, depriving the Liberals of what would have been a safe seat. Lewis backed Labor to form government and was named as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly in return for his support.

Lewis attempted unsuccessfully to shift to the Legislative Council when it became clear that he had little-to-no chance of retaining the electorate at the 2006 election. Liberal Adrian Pederick reclaimed the seat for the Liberals at that election, picking up a swing large enough to revert Hammond to its traditional status as a comfortably safe Liberal seat. Pederick has held the seat without serious difficulty since then. In 2022, the seat became marginal with Pederick only holding it with a 5% margin.

Members for Hammond

Member Party Term
  Peter Lewis Liberal 1997–2000
  Independent 2000–2006
  Adrian Pederick Liberal 2006–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Hammond.[edit]
2022 South Australian state election: Hammond
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Adrian Pederick 9,130 40.5 −9.0
Labor Belinda Owens 5,244 23.3 +6.2
Independent Airlie Keen 3,550 15.7 +15.7
One Nation Tonya Scott 1,548 6.9 +6.9
Greens Timothy White 1,377 6.1 +0.5
Family First Cameron Lock 979 4.3 +4.3
National John Illingworth 720 3.2 +3.2
Total formal votes 22,548 95.8
Informal votes 985 4.2
Turnout 23,533 87.8
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Adrian Pederick 12,431 55.1 −11.7
Labor Belinda Owens 10,117 44.9 +11.7
Liberal hold Swing−11.7

Notes

  1. ↑ Electoral District of Hammond (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

References

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