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Adelaide

Results and projection across recent federal elections.

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Seat-level trend · Inner-metropolitan seats

Projection for Adelaide

ALP
44.3%
GRN
20.8%
LIB
18.7%
ONP
12.1%

The line traces Adelaide's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for inner-metropolitan seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. The actual 2028 projection number (shown at the end of the line, in the table below, and everywhere else on the site) also blends in SA's own state-level polling 50/50 with this classification trend — the chart just doesn't visualize that second component, so the end of the line glides onto the real, state-blended number over its final stretch rather than matching the classification-only shape exactly. There's only one projection number for Adelaide, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Labor wins in 87% of simulations
Labor 69.7%
Coalition (Liberal) 30.3%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. The win-probability figure above comes from a separate 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation (see the Election Map page for methodology) built on this same TCP margin — it's how often that margin survives national polling uncertainty plus seat-level noise, not a different projection.

Get to know the electorate

Adelaide

5.8%
Unemployment rate
0.7pt above Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Inner-metropolitan
Created
1903
Size
76 km²
Current member
Steve Georganas (Labor)
Population
197,621
Median age
36
Median household income
$1,662/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
1.4%

Ancestry

European
41.2%
Australian
22.2%
Asian
8.1%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
60.0%
Mandarin
4.5%
Vietnamese
4.1%
Greek
3.4%
Punjabi
2.4%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

No Religion
39.5%
Christian
22.9%
Hinduism
5.2%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

University Educated
37.2%
High School
33.4%
TAFE Educated
19.7%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Renting
41%
Owned (Active Mortgage)
29%
Owned (No Mortgage)
26%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

White collar
63%
Blue collar
36%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | Adelaide

20222025Projection
ALP40.0%46.5%44.3%
LIB32.0%24.2%18.7%
GRN20.1%19.0%20.8%
ONP3.0%4.0%12.1%
Other4.9%6.4%4.1%

Latest update: 2 October 2026