Ramsay is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Alexander Ramsay (1914-1978), who was General Manager of the South Australian Housing Trust for 25 years and devoted to the improvement of South Australian life. It is a 24.4 km² suburban electorate north of Adelaide - based on the angle between Main North Road and the Port Wakefield Road, Ramsay covers the outer northern Adelaide suburbs of Salisbury, Brahma Lodge, Salisbury Downs and Salisbury Plains as well as parts of Paralowie, Salisbury North and Parafield Gardens. The last redistribution saw Ramsay lose Mawson Lakes to Port Adelaide.
Ramsay was first contested at the 1985 election. Both representatives of the electorate have served as Premier of South Australia. It is a safe Labor seat, with the fifth-largest Labor margin in the state at the 1997 election, second-largest at the 2002 election, and largest at the 2006 election where Labor won 71.5 percent of the first preference vote and 78.5 percent of the two-party vote, and the largest at the 2010 election. A 2012 Ramsay by-election will be held on 11 February as a result of Mike Rann's resignation from parliament.
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