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Florey is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after scientist Howard Florey, who was responsible for the development of penicillin. It is a 15 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's north-east, taking in the suburbs of Modbury and Modbury Heights, as well as parts of Gilles Plains, Hope Valley, Modbury North, Para Hills, Para Vista, Valley View and Wynn Vale.

Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, and was first contested at the 1970 state election. It was held comfortably by the party for more than twenty years before its shock fall to the Liberal Party of Australia at the 1993 election, amidst a landslide result caused by the fallout from the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia. The effect was short-lived, however, and Florey was subsequently regained by Labor at the 1997 election with a sizable swing, and more so at the 2006 election.

[edit] Members for Florey

	Party	Term
Charles Wells	Australian Labor Party	1970–1979
Harold O'Neill	Australian Labor Party	1979–1982
Bob Gregory	Australian Labor Party	1982–1993
Sam Bass	Liberal Party of Australia	1993–1997
Frances Bedford	Australian Labor Party	1997–present

[edit] Election results

South Australian state election, 2006: Florey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Frances Bedford	10,042	52.9	+9.7
	Liberal	Pat Trainor	5,811	30.6	-6.0
	Family First	Richard Bunting	1,410	7.4	+0.7
	Greens	Craig McKay	1,083	5.7	+2.1
	Democrats	Catherine Opitz	636	3.4	-3.5
Total formal votes			20,507	96.3	-0.9
Informal votes			734	3.7	+0.9
Turnout			21,241	93.3	-0.8
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Frances Bedford	11,787	62.1	+8.5
	Liberal	Pat Trainor	7,195	37.9	-8.5
	Labor hold		Swing	+8.5

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