Electoral district of Fisher
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Fisher South Australia—House of Assembly |
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Electoral district of Fisher (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
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| State | South Australia |
| Created | 1970 |
| MP | Nat Cook |
| Party | Australian Labor Party (SA) |
| Namesake | James Hurtle Fisher |
| Electors | 25,829 (2014) |
| Area | 94.2 km2 (36.4 sq mi) |
| Demographic | Metropolitan |
| Coordinates | 35°5′31″S 138°36′57″E / 35.09194°S 138.61583°ECoordinates: 35°5′31″S 138°36′57″E / 35.09194°S 138.61583°E |
Fisher is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after James Fisher, a colonial politician and the first mayor of Adelaide. It covers a 94.2 km² suburban and semi rural area on the southern fringes of Adelaide, taking in the suburbs of Aberfoyle Park, Chandlers Hill, Cherry Gardens, Coromandel East, Happy Valley, Reynella East and parts of Clarendon, O'Halloran Hill and Woodcroft.
Before the 1983 electoral redistribution, Fisher took in the Blackwood area and was a safe Liberal seat, held by Stan Evans. The redistribution turned it into a marginal "mortgage belt" seat on a notional Liberal 2.1 percent two-party margin. The bulk of Evans' base was shifted to neighbouring Davenport, prompting Evans to transfer there. Philip Tyler won it for the Labor at the 1985 election as Labor's second-most marginal seat. It fell to Liberal Bob Such at the 1989 election. Such substantially increased his margin at the 1993 election landslide.
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