Murray is a defunct electoral district that elected members to the House of Assembly, the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia. The electorate, incorporating part of the River Murray, was rural in nature, with Mannum the only large town within its boundaries.See Third Schedule, page 227 "ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF MURRAY" in .See section 11, pages 709-710 "ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF MURRAY" in . From its establishment to the 1938 state election, Murray was a three-member electorate, but was made a single-member electorate afterwards, as part of a system of electoral malapportionment known as the "Playmander". In both incarnations it elected candidates from both major parties as marginal and safe seat holders at various times. If just 21 LCL votes were Labor votes in Murray at the 1968 election, Labor would have formed majority government. Murray was one of two gains in 1968 that put the LCL in office. The electorate was abolished prior to the 1985 election, with its territory now forming part of the districts of Hammond, Kavel, and Schubert. In total, 24 people represented Murray between 1902 and 1985, with its most notable member being Thomas Playford IV, who later served as Premier of South Australia.List of members is not directly navigable. Enter "Murray" in electorate drop-down menu to display list of members for the electorate. Former Members of the Parliament of South Australia – Parliament of South Australia.
List of members
First incarnation (1902–1938, 3 members)MemberPartyTermMemberPartyTermMemberPartyTerm Walter DuncanNational League1902–1906 Friedrich Pflaum 1902–1905 Robert Homburg National League 1902–1905 National League1905–1910 William Jamieson National League 1905–1906 Hermann Homburg National League 1906–1910 Liberal and Democratic 1906–1910 Liberal Union 1910–1915 Liberal Union 1910–1915 Liberal Union 1910–1912 Harry YoungLiberal Union1912–1923 George Dunn Labor 1915–1917 Maurice Parish Labor 1915–1917 National 1917–1918 National 1917–1918 Independent 1918–1918 Sid O'Flaherty Labor 1918–1921 Herbert Parsons Liberal Union 1918–1921 John Godfree Liberal Union 1921–1923 John Randell Liberal Union 1921–1923 Liberal Federation 1923–1924 Liberal Federation 1923–1924 Liberal Federation1923–1927 Clement CollinsLabor1924–1933 Frank Staniford Labor 1924–1927 Ernest Hannaford Liberal Federation 1927–1930 Hermann Homburg Liberal Federation 1927–1930 Frank Staniford Labor 1930–1931 Robert Hunter Labor 1930–1931 Parliamentary Labor 1931–1933 Parliamentary Labor 1931–1933 Parliamentary Labor 1931–1933 George Morphett Liberal and Country 1933–1938 Thomas Playford IV Liberal and Country 1933–1938 Howard Shannon Liberal and Country 1933–1938 Second incarnation (1938–1977)MemberPartyTerm Richard McKenzie Independent 1938–1943 Labor 1943–1953 Hector White Liberal and Country 1953–1956 Gabe Bywaters Labor 1956–1968 Ivon Wardle Liberal and Country 1968–1974 Liberal 1974–1977 David Wotton Liberal 1977–1985
Election results
References
External links The 13 electorates from 1902 to 1915: The Adelaide Chronicle