Electoral district of Mount Gambier

Mount Gambier is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the southeast part of the state centered on the city and extinct volcano of Mount Gambier.

The electorate was created in the 1936 redistribution, but the name was not used between the 1991 and 1998 redistributions (the area was covered by Gordon during that time).

It was held between 2002 and 2010 by Rory McEwen, a former Liberal party member who missed out on preselection, so stood as an independent at the 1997 election. He first accepted Labor portfolios after the 2002 election when Labor reclaimed power, and was Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for State/Local Government Relations, and Minister for Forests in the Mike Rann Labor majority government from the 2006 elections to his retirement in 2010. McEwen was succeeded in the seat by another independent, Don Pegler, who narrowly defeated the Liberal candidate.

Members for Mount Gambier

Member		Party	Term
	John Fletcher	Independent	1938–1958
	Ron Ralston	Australian Labor Party	1958–1962
	Allan Burdon	Australian Labor Party	1962–1975
	Harold Allison	Liberal Party of Australia	1975–1993
	Rory McEwen	Independent	2002–2010
	Don Pegler	Independent	2010–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Mount Gambier

South Australian state election, 2010: Mount Gambier
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Steve Perryman	9,282	42.6	+8.7
	Independent	Don Pegler	7,842	36.0	+36.0
	Labor	Viv Maher	2,724	12.5	-9.7
	Family First	Henk Bruins	929	4.3	+0.2
	Greens	Donella Peters	492	2.3	+0.4
	Independent	Nick Fletcher	464	2.1	+2.1
	Fair Land Tax	John Desyllas	48	0.2	+0.2
Total formal votes			21,781	96.1
Informal votes			814	3.9
Turnout			22,595	93.3
Two-candidate preferred result
	Independent	Don Pegler	10,971	50.4	+50.4
	Liberal	Steve Perryman	10,810	49.6	+5.8
	Independent hold		Swing	-5.8

External links

• Poll Bludger profile for Mount Gambier: 2006
• Poll Bludger profile for Mount Gambier: 2010
• ABC profile for Mount Gambier
• State Electoral Office map for Mount Gambier
• State Electoral Office profile for Mount Gambier