Electoral district of Florey

Florey was created at the electoral redistribution of 1969 as a notionally safe Labor electorate, and was first contested at the 1970 election. Mostly it was safely held by the Labor party until the 1989 election when it became the minority Labor government's most marginal electorate. Florey was one of the first electorates to fall to the Liberals at the 1993 election landslide. It was regained by Labor's Frances Bedford at the 1997 election.

At the 2014 Election it was Electorate based on the north eastern Adelaide Metropolitan suburbs of Modbury, Modbury North, Modbury Heights and parts of Gillies Plains, Hope Valley, Para Hills, Para Vista, Redwood Park, Rigdehaven, Vallev View and Wynn Vale.

The 2016 electoral redistribution reassigned two-thirds of Playford voters to Florey as the electorate moved westerly away from it traditional base area in the north eastern suburbs within the City of Tea Tree Gully (as at 2026 now in the Electorate of Newland).

Incumbent Frances Bedford resigned from Labor and became an independent on 28 March 2017 after Labor's Jack Snelling, the sitting member for the Electoral district of Playford since 1997, won Florey pre-selection for the 2018 election. As an independent, Bedford continued to provide confidence and supply support to the incumbent Labor government and did not make an immediate decision as to whether she would re-contest Florey as an independent.^[2]

A ReachTEL poll conducted on 2 March 2017 of 606 voters in post-redistribution Florey indicated a 33.4 percent primary vote for Bedford running as an independent which would likely see Labor's Snelling defeated after preferences.^[3]

Snelling announced on 17 September 2017 that he had decided not to contest the 2018 election.^[4] At the 2018 election Florey was subsequently retained by Bedford which was the first time an independent candidate had won an election in the district since its inception.

At the 2022 Bedford switch seats and contested Newland as an independent and Florey was regained for Labor by Michael Brown. Brown had switch seats to Florey after succeeding Snelling as the member for Playford in 2018 due to an electoral boundaries redistribution, which saw around 12,000 voters in the suburbs of Para Hills, Para Hills West, and Parafield move from Playford to Florey in 2022^[5]