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(Top) 1 Members for Hindmarsh 1.1 Legislative Council 1.2 House of Assembly 2 Election results 2.1 Elections in the 1960s 2.2 Elections in the 1950s 2.3 Elections in the 1940s 2.4 Elections in the 1930s 3 References

Electoral results for the district of Hindmarsh

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This is a list of election results for the electoral district of HindmarshinSouth Australian elections.

Members for Hindmarsh[edit]

Legislative Council[edit]

Hindmarsh had earlier been the name of a different electoral district for the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council from 1851 until its abolition in 1857, Robert Davenport, then John Rankine being the members. That electorate had been for an area south of Adelaide including Strathalbyn.^[1]

Member	Term
Robert Davenport	1851–1854
John Rankine	1854–1857

House of Assembly[edit]

Member		Party	Term
	John McInnes	Labor	1938–1950
	Cyril Hutchens	Labor	1950–1970

Election results[edit]

Elections in the 1960s[edit]

1968 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Cyril Hutchens	14,874	72.2	-7.9
	Liberal and Country	Richard Leeton	5,741	27.8	+27.8
Total formal votes			20,615	96.3	+1.6
Informal votes			796	3.7	-1.6
Turnout			21,411	95.1	+0.9
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1965 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Cyril Hutchens	16,241	80.1	-19.9
	Democratic Labor	Cyril Holasek	4,024	19.9	+19.9
Total formal votes			20,265	94.7
Informal votes			1,136	5.3
Turnout			21,401	94.2
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1962 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Cyril Hutchens	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s[edit]

1959 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Cyril Hutchens	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1956 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Cyril Hutchens	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1953 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Cyril Hutchens	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1950 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Cyril Hutchens	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s[edit]

1947 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John McInnes	16,719	87.9	-12.1
	Communist	James Moss	2,306	12.1	+12.1
Total formal votes			19,025	90.9
Informal votes			1,911	9.1
Turnout			20,936	92.1
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

1944 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John McInnes	unopposed
	Labor hold		Swing

1941 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	John McInnes	5,030	59.9	+7.2
	Independent	William Stratton	2,047	24.4	+24.4
	Independent	Bessie Mountford	1,318	15.7	+15.7
Total formal votes			8,395	97.4	-0.6
Informal votes			228	2.6	+0.6
Turnout			8,623	45.7	-8.5
	Labor hold		Swing	N/A

Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1930s[edit]

1938 South Australian state election: Hindmarsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labor	John McInnes	4,920	52.7
	Independent	James Treloar	4,424	47.3
Total formal votes			9,344	98.0
Informal votes			188	2.0
Turnout			9,532	54.2
	Labor hold		Swing

References[edit]

^ "ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF HINDMARSH". South Australian Register. Vol. XVIII, no. 2449. South Australia. 27 July 1854. p. 2. Retrieved 12 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

^ History of South Australian elections, 1857-2006 - by Dean Jaensch - ISBN 978-0-9750486-3-4

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