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Stuart is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the northeast part of the state extending from just north of the Barossa Valley all the way to the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales borders, and extending west to include Port Augusta. It is the second-largest electorate by area in South Australia.

The electorate is named after John McDouall Stuart, who pioneered a route across through this area from the settled areas in the south to the port of Darwin in the north. This route later became the path of the overland telegraph and then The Ghan railway.

The electorate was created in the 1936 redistribution, but did not exist between 1993 and 1997 when the name was revived.

It is currently held by Graham Gunn for the Liberal Party of Australia, the longest-serving current MP anywhere in Australia, having first been elected to Eyre in 1970.

Graham Gunn held his seat in the 2006 election by just 233 votes after distribution of preferences. He will retire at the next election when he will have finished a four decade-long career.

[edit] Members for Stuart

	Party	Term
Lindsay Riches	Australian Labor Party	1938–1970
Gavin Keneally	Australian Labor Party	1970–1989
Colleen Hutchison	Australian Labor Party	1989–1993
Graham Gunn	Liberal Party of Australia	1997–present

[edit] Election results

South Australian state election, 2006: Stuart
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Graham Gunn	9,441	45.7	-0.4
	Labor	Justin Jarvis	9,021	43.7	+3.4
	Family First	Greg Patrick	943	4.6	+4.6
	Greens	Jane Alcorn	737	3.6	+3.6
	Democrats	Bruce Lennon	353	1.7	-2.2
	Independent	Simon Cook	142	0.7	+0.7
Total formal votes			20,637	96.9	-0.8
Informal votes			669	3.1	+0.8
Turnout			21,306	91.9	-2.0
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	Graham Gunn	10,435	50.6	-0.7
	Labor	Justin Jarvis	10,202	49.4	+0.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.7

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