West Torrens has had several incarnations, first as a Legislative Council district, then four times as a South Australian House of Assembly electoral district.

It was first used as district in the Legislative Council, from 1851 until 1857, with Charles Simeon Hare and then Thomas Reynolds being the members.^[2]
From 1857 it became a House of Assembly district, returning two members until it was abolished as a name at the 1902 election.
At the 1915 election, it was recreated as a House of Assembly seat returning two members, being abolished again at the 1938 election when single-member districts were introduced.^[2]
In 1955 it was recreated to replace the abolished seat of Thebarton for the 1956 election, the first time that the district was represented by a single member. It was abolished at the 1970 election and replaced with the electoral district of Peake.
It reverted to its original name for the 2002 election, after a redistribution.

Members

First incarnation (1857–1902) (Two-member electorate)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Luther Scammell		1857–1860		James Cole		1857–1860
	Thomas Magarey		1860–1862		George Morphett		1860–1861
	Thomas Magarey		1860–1862		Randolph Stow		1861–1862
	Henry Strangways		1862–1871
					Augustine Stow		1862–1865
					John Pickering		1865–1868
					G. T. Bean		1868–1870
					John Pickering		1870–1870
	W. H. Bean		1870–1871
	W. H. Bean		1870–1871		James Boucaut		1871–1875
	John Pickering		1871–1878		James Boucaut		1871–1875
					Benjamin Taylor		1875–1876
					J. M. Sinclair		1876–1878
	W. J. Magarey		1878–1881		W. H. Bean		1878–1884
	F. E. Bucknall		1881–1887		W. H. Bean		1878–1884
	F. E. Bucknall		1881–1887		Arthur Harvey		1884–1887
	Benjamin Gould		1887–1893		Benjamin Nash		1887–1890
	Benjamin Gould		1887–1893		T. H. Brooker		1890–1902
	Frank Hourigan	Labor	1893–1901		T. H. Brooker		1890–1902

Second incarnation (1915–1938) (Two-member electorate)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
	Henry Chesson	Labor	1915–1917		Thompson Green	Labor	1915–1917
	Henry Chesson	National	1917–1918		Thompson Green	National	1917–1918
	Alfred Blackwell	Labor	1918–1931		John McInnes	Labor	1918–1931
		Parliamentary Labor	1931–1934			Parliamentary Labor	1931–1934
		Labor	1934–1938			Labor	1934–1938

Third incarnation (1956–1970) (Single-member electorate)
Member		Party	Term
	Fred Walsh	Labor	1956–1965
	Glen Broomhill	Labor	1965–1970

Fourth incarnation (2002–present) (Single-member electorate)
Member		Party	Term
	Tom Koutsantonis	Labor	2002–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of West Torrens

2022 South Australian state election: West Torrens
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tom Koutsantonis	12,496	54.9	+4.3
	Liberal	Helika Cruz	6,353	27.9	−2.4
	Greens	Peta-Anne Louth	3,919	17.2	+5.8
Total formal votes			22,768	97.0
Informal votes			708	3.0
Turnout			23,476	89.2
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Tom Koutsantonis	15,654	68.8	+4.5
	Liberal	Helika Cruz	7,114	31.2	−4.5
	Labor hold		Swing	+4.5

Notes

References

v t e Electoral districts of the South Australian House of Assembly
Labor (27)	Adelaide Badcoe Cheltenham Croydon Davenport Elder Elizabeth Enfield Florey Gibson Giles Hurtle Vale Kaurna King Lee Light Mawson Newland Playford Port Adelaide Ramsay Reynell Taylor Torrens Waite West Torrens Wright
Liberal (15)	Black Bragg Chaffey Colton Finniss Flinders Frome Hammond Hartley Heysen MacKillop Morialta Morphett Schubert Unley
Independent (4)	Kavel Mount Gambier Narungga Stuart
Vacant (1)	Dunstan

Former electoral districts of South Australia