Electoral district of Newland

Newland South Australia—House of Assembly
Electoral district of Newland (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1977
MP	Tom Kenyon
Party	Australian Labor Party (SA)
Namesake	Simpson Newland
Electors	24,467 (2014)
Area	69.3 km2 (26.8 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan

Newland is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after pioneer Simpson Newland, a prominent figure in nineteenth-century South Australia. It is a 69.3 km² suburban electorate in north-eastern Adelaide, taking in the suburbs of Banksia Park, Fairview Park, Lower Hermitage, Upper Hermitage, Houghton, St Agnes, Surrey Downs, Tea Tree Gully, Vista and Yatala Vale as well as parts of Chain of Ponds, Highbury, Hope Valley, Inglewood, Millbrook, Redwood Park and Ridgehaven.

Replacing the abolished seat of Tea Tree Gully, Newland was created at the 1976 redistribution, taking effect at the 1977 election, and followed a bellwether pattern until the 1989 election, where it was won by Liberal candidate Dorothy Kotz, who developed a strong personal following in Newland and had little difficulty being re-elected at successive elections until her retirement at the 2006 election. Upon her retirement, however, her personal vote evaporated, and this, combined with a landslide Labor victory across the state, saw Labor candidate Tom Kenyon take the seat for Labor. It became the Labor government's most marginal seat at the 2014 election.