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# Adelaide

In South Australia.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lucy_Hood_politician_cropped_01.jpg?width=96)**Lucy Hood** Labor, Adelaide ](https://politics.computer/mp/lucy-hood)

About

## About Adelaide

Adelaide is a single-member seat in the South Australian House of Assembly, covering the Adelaide city centre, North Adelaide and inner north suburbs. It is held by Lucy Hood of the Labor Party, who defeated Liberal Rachel Sanderson at the 2022 state election.

Created

1901 Act, for the 1902 election, as a four-member district

Area

22.8 km²

Named after

The city of Adelaide, named after Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

Previous member

Rachel Sanderson (Liberal), defeated at the 2022 election

Sitting member

Lucy Hood (Labor)

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral%5Fdistrict%5Fof%5FAdelaide), plus our own records. Sources last checked 12 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Adelaide whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Adelaide yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Adelaide are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

## Other districts in South Australia

- [Badcoe](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/badcoe)
- [Black](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/black)
- [Bragg](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/bragg)
- [Chaffey](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/chaffey)
- [Cheltenham](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/cheltenham)
- [Colton](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/colton)
- [Croydon](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/croydon)
- [Davenport](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/davenport)
- [Dunstan](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/dunstan)
- [Elder](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/elder)
- [Elizabeth](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/elizabeth)
- [Enfield](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/enfield)
- [Finniss](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/finniss)
- [Flinders](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/flinders)
- [Florey](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/florey)
- [Gibson](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/gibson)
- [Giles](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/giles)
- [Hammond](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/hammond)
- [Hartley](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/hartley)
- [Heysen](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/heysen)
- [Hurtle Vale](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/hurtle-vale)
- [Kaurna](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/kaurna)
- [Kavel](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/kavel)
- [King](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/king)

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