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.
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