Georganas comfortably re-elected for seventh term in the Federal Parliament

Alex Hawke and Michael McCormack – both of Greek descent – are also re-elected

Steve Georganas, in an older snapshot. Photo: Supplied

Staff writers
6 May 2025 12:09pm

With a comfortable victory in the federal seat of Adelaide, against the Liberal candidate Amy Grantham, Labor’s Steve Georganas has been elected to Parliament for the seventh time.

Georganas was first elected to Parliament in the Hindmarsh region (South Australia) in 2004. He was re-elected in 2007 and 2010.

He was defeated in the 2013 elections, but was re-elected in 2016 to the same seat.

After the electoral district changes, he won the seat of Adelaide in 2019, where he was re-elected in 2022 and at the Saturday polls.

Georganas is the son of immigrants from Arcadia and Messinia. His father arrived in Australia in 1954 and worked at the Holden car factory in Melbourne before deciding to settle permanently in South Australia where he met his wife.

With 76.4 per cent of the vote counted for the federal seat of Adelaide, Georganas was on 69.1 per cent (with 65,990 votes) compared to 30.9 per cent (29,553) for the Liberal candidate Amy Grantham.

There is even a “shift” of voters towards the Labor Party, by 7.2 per cent compared to 2022.

Alex Hawke was elected to the Federal Parliament for the seventh time, with the Liberals, in the seat of Mitchell, New South Wales.

Hawke – whose mother was born in Chortiatis, where his grandfather made the decision to leave after the end of World War II – was first elected in 2007 and was the winner in the elections that followed: 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022 and last Saturday.

With 82.5 per cent of the vote counted in the seat, Hawke was on 54.6 per cent (52,698 votes) to 45.4 per cent (43,858) for Labor candidate Dilvan Bircan. However, there was a 5.9 per cent swing towards Labor.

Michael McCormack comfortably secured his sixth term in the Federal Parliament.

McCormack has been elected in the New South Wales seat of Riverina since 2010.

The grandfather of the former leader of the Nationals and former deputy prime minister of Australia and the father of his mother Eileen Margaret, was George Margosis, who was born in Akrata in 1896.

With 85.2 per cent of the vote counted, McCormack was on 63.1 per cent (with 61,990 votes), compared to 36.9 per cent for Labour candidate Mark Jeffreson (36,318).