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# Davenport

In South Australia.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erin_Thompson_at_the_2026_Australian_Labor_Party_National_Conference_(028A9041)_-_no_pin.jpg?width=96)**Erin Thompson** Labor, Davenport ](https://politics.computer/mp/erin-thompson)

About

## About Davenport

Davenport is a South Australian House of Assembly electorate covering part of outer southern Adelaide and the southern foothills of the Adelaide Hills. Labor MP Erin Thompson holds the seat, which Labor won in 2022 for the first time in its history.

Named after

Sir Samuel Davenport, nineteenth-century pioneer and politician

Created

1969 redistribution

Area

57.7 km²

Previous members

Joyce Steele, Dean Brown, Stan Evans, Iain Evans, Sam Duluk, Steve Murray

Held by the same party since

2022, when Labor won the seat for the first time

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

## Other districts in South Australia

- [Adelaide](https://politics.computer/seats/sa/adelaide)
- [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)
- [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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