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.^[2]

Badcoe South Australia—House of Assembly
2022 boundaries shown in green on Adelaide area map
State	South Australia
Created	2018
MP	Jayne Stinson
Party	Australian Labor Party
Namesake	Peter Badcoe VC
Electors	27,481 (2022)
Area	14.5 km2 (5.6 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	34.96°S 138.57°E / -34.96; 138.57
Electorates around Badcoe: Colton West Torrens Adelaide Morphett Badcoe Unley Gibson Elder Elder
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

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.^[3][4] At its creation, Badcoe was projected to be notionally held by the Labor Party with a swing of 4.2% required to lose it.^{[5]: Appendix 12}

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.^[2]

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.^[6]

Members for Badcoe

Member		Party	Term
	Jayne Stinson	Labor	2018–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Badcoe

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Badcoe.[edit]

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