Electoral district of Wright
Wright is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after the 19th century South Australian architect Edmund Wright, it is a 21.2 km² urban electorate in Adelaide's outer north-eastern suburbs, taking in the suburb of Salisbury East and parts of Salisbury Heights, Greenwith, Golden Grove, Gulfview Heights and Wynn Vale.
Wright was created in the 1991 electoral distribution as a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party. It was first contested at the 1993 state election, where it was won by Liberal candidate Scott Ashenden as part of a large swing throughout the state. However, he was swept away in 1997, with Jennifer Rankine reclaiming the seat for Labor. Rankine retained the seat in 2002, with a slender margin of 3.2 percent.
[edit] Members for Wright
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Ashenden | Liberal Party of Australia | 1993–1997 | |
| Jennifer Rankine | Australian Labor Party | 1997–present | |
[edit] Election results
| South Australian state election, 2010: Wright | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Jennifer Rankine | 10,688 | 48.1 | -9.4 | |
| Liberal | Tina Celeste | 8,309 | 37.4 | +10.7 | |
| Family First | Mark Potter | 1,488 | 6.7 | -0.6 | |
| Greens | Arthur Seager | 1,132 | 5.1 | +1.2 | |
| Dignity for Disability | Garry Connor | 581 | 2.6 | +0.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 22,198 | 93.9 | |||
| Informal votes | 1,283 | 6.1 | |||
| Turnout | 23,481 | 96.2 | |||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Jennifer Rankine | 12,126 | 54.6 | -10.7 | |
| Liberal | Tina Celeste | 10,072 | 45.4 | +10.7 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -10.7 | |||
[edit] External links
- Poll Bludger profile for Wright: 2006
- Poll Bludger profile for Wright: 2010
- ABC profile for Wright
- State Electoral Office map for Wright
- State Electoral Office profile for Wright
