Division of South Australia

South Australia Australian House of Representatives Division
Created	1901
Abolished	1903
Namesake	South Australia

The Division of South Australia was an Australian Electoral Division that existed from 1901 until 1903. It covered the entire state of South Australia which, unlike most of the other states, had not been split into individual single-member electorates. The Division elected seven members at the 1901 election, with each elector casting seven votes.

Members

Sorted in descending order of votes received

Member		Party	Term
	Charles Kingston	Protectionist	1901–1903
	Sir Langdon Bonython	Protectionist	1901–1903
	Paddy Glynn	Free Trade	1901–1903
	(Sir) Frederick Holder	Free Trade	1901–1903
	Lee Batchelor	Labour	1901–1903
	Vaiben Solomon	Free Trade	1901–1903
	Alexander Poynton	Free Trade*	1901–1903

• Though labelled a Free Trader, Poynton was actually an Australasian National League (National Defence League) candidate.

The Division was split into seven single-member seats at the 1903 election – Adelaide (Kingston, Protectionist), Angas (Glynn, Free Trade), Barker (Bonython, Protectionist), Boothby (Batchelor, Labour), Grey (Poynton, Labour), Hindmarsh (Hutchison, Labour) and Wakefield (Holder, Independent).

Election results

Elected members in bold. South Australia elected seven members, with each elector casting seven votes.

Australian federal election, 1901: South Australia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Protectionist	Charles Kingston	41,477	65.9	+65.9
	Protectionist	Sir Langdon Bonython	39,434	62.7	+62.7
	Free Trade	Paddy Glynn	37,450	59.5	+59.5
	Free Trade	Frederick Holder	37,424	59.5	+59.5
	Labour	Lee Batchelor	31,614	50.3	+50.3
	Free Trade	Vaiben Solomon	27,030	43.0	+43.0
	Free Trade	Alexander Poynton	25,864	41.1	+41.1
	Labour	Thomas Price	24,019	38.2	+38.2
	Protectionist	Robert Caldwell	21,102	33.6	+33.6
	Free Trade	Henry Baker	15,760	25.1	+25.1
	Free Trade	Crawford Vaughan	11,874	18.9	+18.9
	Free Trade	Richard Wood	11,054	17.6	+17.6
	Free Trade	Thomas Webb	9,357	14.9	+14.9
	Protectionist	John Cooke	8,947	14.2	+14.2
	Protectionist	John O'Connell	3,152	5.0	+5.0
	Protectionist	George Wyld	2,858	4.6	+4.6
	Independent	George Mitchell	1,745	2.8	+2.8
Total formal votes			350,161	98.4
Informal votes			985	1.6
Turnout			62,982	40.8