Division of Boothby
| Boothby Australian House of Representatives Division |
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 Division of Boothby (green) in South Australia |
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| Created: | 1903 |
| MP: | Andrew Southcott |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Namesake: | William Boothby |
| Area: | 123 km² (47 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Outer Metropolitan |
The Division of Boothby is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. The division was created in 1903 and is named after William Boothby (1829–1903), the Returning Officer for the first election of Members of the House of Representatives in 1901.[1]
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[edit] History
Before 1949 and the creation of the Division of Sturt, Boothby covered most of the southern and eastern suburbs of Adelaide, and changed hands several times between the Australian Labor Party and the conservative parties. Since 1949 it has been confined to the affluent south-eastern and gulfside suburbs and has traditionally been regarded as a "safe" or "fairly safe" seat for the Liberal Party. However, since 2007 it has become increasingly marginal.[2] Today it extends from Mitcham and Belair in the east to Brighton and Seacliff in the west.[3]
The seat has been held by Andrew Southcott since 1996. Its most prominent members were Sir John McLeay, who was Speaker 1956-66, and former state premier Steele Hall.
The seat of Boothby gained national prominence in 2007 when the then opposition Labor Party preselected Nicole Cornes, an Advertiser columnist and wife of popular former footballer Graham Cornes.[4] Her bid for the seat was unsuccessful, though Southcott saw his margin decrease to 53 percent.
[edit] Members
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| Lee Batchelor | Labor | 1903–1911 | |
| David Gordon | Commonwealth Liberal | 1911–1913 | |
| George Dankel | Labor | 1913–1916 | |
| Nationalist | 1916–1917 | ||
| William Story | Nationalist | 1917–1922 | |
| Jack Duncan-Hughes | Liberal Union | 1922–1925 | |
| Nationalist | 1925–1928 | ||
| John Price | Labor | 1928–1931 | |
| United Australia | 1931–1941 | ||
| Grenfell Price | United Australia | 1941–1943 | |
| Thomas Sheehy | Labor | 1943–1949 | |
| John McLeay, Sr. | Liberal | 1949–1966 | |
| John McLeay, Jr. | Liberal | 1966–1981 | |
| Steele Hall | Liberal | 1981–1996 | |
| Andrew Southcott | Liberal | 1996–present | |
[edit] Election results
| Australian federal election, 2010: Boothby | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Andrew Southcott | 38,248 | 44.81 | -1.44 | |
| Labor | Annabel Digance | 30,515 | 35.75 | +1.63 | |
| Greens | Fiona Blinco | 11,305 | 13.24 | +3.02 | |
| Family First | Meredith Resce | 2,120 | 2.48 | +0.04 | |
| Independent | Ray McGhee | 1,689 | 1.98 | -2.93 | |
| Democrats | Thomas Salerno | 517 | 0.61 | -0.93 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Noack | 339 | 0.40 | +0.23 | |
| Climate Sceptics | Stephen Skillitzi | 316 | 0.37 | +0.37 | |
| Secular | Avi Chapman | 310 | 0.36 | +0.36 | |
| Total formal votes | 85,359 | 95.37 | -1.76 | ||
| Informal votes | 4,148 | 4.63 | +1.76 | ||
| Turnout | 89,507 | 91.43 | -4.25 | ||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Andrew Southcott | 43,317 | 50.75 | -2.18 | |
| Labor | Annabel Digance | 42,042 | 49.25 | +2.18 | |
| Liberal hold | Swing | -2.18 | |||
[edit] References
- ^ Profile of the Electoral Division of Boothby, 4 January 2011, Australian Electoral Commission.
- ^ The AEC Seat 'safeness' ratings are:
Seat status is generally based on the two-party-preferred results of the last election.- Where a winning candidate receives less than 56% of the vote, the seat is classified as 'marginal';
- 56–60% is classified as 'fairly safe'; and
- more than 60% is considered 'safe'.
- ^ Map of the Commonwealth Electoral Division of Boothby, 2004, reprinted 2007, Australian Electoral Commission.
- ^ Mike Sexton (19 November 2007). "Star ALP candidate battles for Boothby". ABC 7:30 Report. http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2095142.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
[edit] See also
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