Electoral district of Morialta

Morialta is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is a 356 km² electorate stretching from the Adelaide Hills to the outer eastern and north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, taking in the suburbs and localities of Auldana, Ashton, Athelstone, Basket Range, Birdwood, Castambul, Cherryville, Cudlee Creek, Forest Range, Gumeracha, Highbury, Kenton Valley, Lenswood, Lobethal, Marble Hill, Montacute, Mount Torrens, Norton Summit, Rostrevor, Summertown, Teringie, Uraidla and Woodforde, as well as part of Chain of Ponds.

Morialta South Australia—House of Assembly
Electoral district of Morialta (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	2002
MP	John Gardner
Party	Liberal Party of Australia (SA)
Namesake	Morialta[citation needed]
Electors	25,995 (2018)
Area	356 km2 (137.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	34°52′55″S 138°46′24″E
Electorates around Morialta: Torrens Newland Schubert Hartley Morialta Hammond Bragg Kavel Hammond
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Morialta is a word derived from the Kaurna language, originally thought to be marri-yartalla, "marri" meaning east and yertala meaning "flowing water".^[2] More recent research has shown that the etymology of the word is marri, meaning "east" and probably yarta, meaning "land, earth, country", or possibly yalta, meaning "cool, fresh, airy"; therefore, probably meaning "eastern land or country".^[3][4] The land used by the Morialta Conservation Park was traditionally occupied by the Kaurna people.

Morialta was the new name adopted in 2002 for the electoral district of Coles, which was first created at the 1970 election and represented over the years by several distinguished MPs, including former Dunstan Labor government Attorney General Len King, and former premier Des Corcoran. Morialta was won at the 2002 election by Liberal minister Joan Hall, the last member for Coles, on a margin of 4.1 percent, suffering a -2.4 percent swing. At the 2006 election, Hall was thought likely to again hold the seat with a reduced margin, but was defeated by Labor candidate Lindsay Simmons amidst Labor's statewide landslide, receiving a 12 percent two-party preferred swing to finish with a 7.9 percent margin. However, at the 2010 election the electorate there was a swing of 11.1 percent back to the Liberals, with candidate John Gardner defeating Simmons by a margin of 4.1 percent.

Members for Morialta

Member		Party	Term
	Joan Hall	Liberal	2002–2006
	Lindsay Simmons	Labor	2006–2010
	John Gardner	Liberal	2010–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Morialta

2022 South Australian state election: Morialta

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Gardner	10,935	46.2	+1.9
	Labor	Matthew Marozzi	8,545	36.1	+11.7
	Greens	Alex Dinovitser	2,441	10.3	+4.8
	Family First	Nick Zollo	1,763	7.4	+7.4
Total formal votes			23,684	96.9
Informal votes			756	3.1
Turnout			24,440	91.6
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	John Gardner	12,165	51.4	−8.0
	Labor	Matthew Marozzi	11,519	48.6	+8.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	−8.0

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