Electoral district of Black

Black 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]

Black South Australia—House of Assembly
2022 boundaries shown in green in Adelaide region
State	South Australia
Created	2018
MP	David Speirs
Party	Liberal Party of Australia
Namesake	Dorrit Black
Electors	26,437 (2022)
Area	26.6 km2 (10.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	35.05°S 138.53°E / -35.05; 138.53
Electorates around Black: Gulf St Vincent Gibson Gibson Gulf St Vincent Black Davenport Gulf St Vincent Reynell Hurtle Vale
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Black is named after Dorrit Black (Dorothea Foster Black, 1891–1951), a South Australian modern artist, best known for linocuts, oil and watercolour paintings.[2]

Black lies south-west of the Adelaide city centre and includes the suburbs of Darlington, Hallett Cove, Kingston Park, Marino, O'Halloran Hill, Seacliff, Seacliff Park, Seacombe Heights, Seaview Downs, Sheidow Park and Trott Park.[3] At its creation, Black was projected to be notionally held by the Liberal Party with a swing of 2.6% required to lose it.[4]^{: Appendix 12} The 2018 creation of Black replaced the electorate of Mitchell that was disestablished at the 2018 state election.[2] Black does not extend as far north or south as Mitchell did, but extends west to the coast through part of what used to be Bright.