Croydon – SA 2022

ALP 23.3%

Incumbent MP
Peter Malinauskas, since 2018. Previously member of the Legislative Council 2015-2018.

• Geography
• Redistribution
• History
• Candidates
• Assessment
• 2018 result
• Booth breakdown
• Results maps

Geography
North-western Adelaide. Croydon covers suburbs immediately to the northwest of the Adelaide city centre, including Angle Park, Bowden, Croydon, Devon Park, Dudley Park, Ferryden Park, Kilburn, Kilkenny, Mansfield Park, Regency Park, Renown Park, Ridleyton, West Croydon and Woodville Gardens.

Redistribution
Croydon gained Kilburn from Enfield, and lost Athol Park to Cheltenham and Welland to West Torrens. These changes reduced the Labor margin from 24.4% to 23.3%.

History

The electorate of Croydon has existed under its current name since the 2002 election, and was effectively a new name for the previous electorate of Spence, which had existed since 1970. Both Spence and Croydon have always been Labor-held.

Two successive Labor MPs held Spence from 1970 to 1989.

In 1989, Spence was won by Michael Atkinson. Atkinson has been re-elected in the area at six successive elections between 1993 and 2014, under the name of Croydon since 2002.

Atkinson served as Attorney-General from 2002 until the 2010 election, when he moved to the backbench. Atkinson served as Speaker of the House of Assembly from 2013 until his retirement in 2018.

Croydon was won in 2018 by Labor MLC Peter Malinauskas, who was elected to the upper house in 2014. Malinauskas served as a minister in the Labor government from 2016 to 2018, and he was elected Labor leader following the 2018 election.

Candidates

• Michael Santagata (Liberal)
• Peter Malinauskas (Labor)
• Tracey Davis (Greens)
• Millie Hammerstein (Animal Justice)

Assessment
Croydon is Labor’s safest seat.

2018 result

2018 two-party-preferred result

Booth breakdown

Booths in Croydon have been divided into three areas: central, north and south.

Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 74% in the centre to 78.3% in the north.

Election results in Croydon at the 2018 South Australian state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal Party and SA-Best.

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