{{Short description|Former South Australian electoral district}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox Australian electorate |name = Semaphore |state = sa |image = |caption = |created = 1938 |abolished= 1993 |mp = |mp-party = |namesake = Semaphore, South Australia |area = |class = Metropolitan }} '''Semaphore''' was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1938 to 1993.<ref name=SAparl>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf |title=Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 - 2007 |publisher=Parliament of South Australia |access-date=19 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311113513/http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf |archive-date=11 March 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Semaphore was abolished in a boundary redistribution in 1993 and became the new seat of Hart.

The suburb of Semaphore is currently located in the marginal Labor seat of Lee.

==Members== {| class="wikitable" |- !colspan=2|Member!!Party!!Term |- | {{Australian party style|Labor}}|&nbsp; | Albert Thompson | Labor | 1938–1946 |- | {{Australian party style|Labor}}|&nbsp; | Harold Tapping | Labor | 1946–1964 |- | {{Australian party style|Labor}}|&nbsp; | Reg Hurst | Labor | 1964–1973 |- | {{Australian party style|Labor}}|&nbsp; | Jack Olson | Labor | 1973–1979 |- | {{Australian party style|Independent}}|&nbsp; | Norm Peterson | Independent | 1979–1993 |- |}

==Election results==

{{main|Electoral results for the district of Semaphore}}

== References == {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/bp/1990/90bp24.pdf 1985 & 1989 election boundaries, page 18 & 19]

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