Taylor
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Taylor highlighted
Electoral district of Taylor (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created1993
MPNick Champion
PartyAustralian Labor Party (SA)
NamesakeDoris Irene Taylor
Electors27,494 (2018)
Area318.71 km2 (123.1 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°41′4″S 138°33′16″E / 34.68444°S 138.55444°E / -34.68444; 138.55444
Electorates around Taylor:
Gulf St Vincent Frome Light
Gulf St Vincent Taylor Light Elizabeth
Gulf St Vincent Port Adelaide Playford Ramsay Elizabeth
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Taylor is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. This district is named after Doris Irene Taylor MBE, a leading force in the founding of Meals on Wheels, and Labor activist. Taylor is a 246.2 km2 semi-urban electorate in Adelaide's outer northern suburbs and market gardens on the Adelaide Northern plains. A large portion of the district lives in the western half of the City of Playford and it is regarded as a safe Labor seat. It now includes the suburbs and townships of Andrews Farm, Angle Vale, Bolivar, Buckland Park, Davoren Park, Edinburgh, Edinburgh North, Elizabeth North, Eyre, Macdonald Park, Munno Para West, Penfield, Penfield Gardens, Riverlea Park, Smithfield, Smithfield Plains, St Kilda, Virginia, and Waterloo Corner.

History

Taylor was created for the 1993 state election between the northern metropolitan seat of Ramsay and rural Goyder, and was won by the defeated Labor Premier Lynn Arnold. He resigned in 1994, triggering a Taylor by-election which saw Trish White retain the seat for Labor.

Following the redistribution of 2003 the northern boundary of the district was Light River and it sketched from the Gulf of St Vincent in the west to Lewiston and Reeves Plains in the North East, Curtis Road in the City of Playford to the East, to the outer northern suburbs of Burton, Direk and parts of Paralowie and Salisbury North to the South.[2]

Following the 2016 Boundary redistribution a major change occurred with approximately 40% of the electors of Taylor from the suburbs of Paralowie and Salisbury North in the City of Salisbury being moved to Electoral district of Ramsay and being replaced by Elizabeth North which was added from the abolished district of Electoral district of Little Para and Davoren Park, Smithfield, Smithfield Plains from the abolished district of Electoral district of Napier, and Township of Angle Vale from Electoral district of Light all from the City of Playford.[3] The previous member for Napier Jon Gee replaced the retiring member of Taylor Leesa Vlahos at the 2018 Election.

Due to being above the 10% quota threshold the 2020 Boundary redistribution the Gawler River has again become the northern boundary with Port Gawler, Middle Beach and Two Wells within the Adelaide Plains Council moving to a redrawn Electoral district of Frome and the southern boundary also changing with the suburbs of Burton, Direk and remaining portion of Salibury North from the City of Salisbury moving to the Electoral district of Ramsay. A portion of Munno Para West within the City of Playford from the Electoral district of Light was added.[4]

Members for Taylor

Member Party Term
  Lynn Arnold Labor 1993–1994
  Trish White Labor 1994–2010
  Leesa Vlahos Labor 2010–2018
  Jon Gee Labor 2018–2022
  Nick Champion Labor 2022–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Taylor.[edit]
2022 South Australian state election: Taylor
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Nick Champion 11,752 53.4 +8.1
Liberal Shawn Lock 4,629 21.1 +0.8
One Nation Michelle Crowley 1,934 8.8 +8.8
Family First Gary Balfort 1,695 7.7 +7.7
Greens John Wishart 1,314 6.0 −1.0
Independent Rita Kuhlmann 668 3.0 +3.0
Total formal votes 21,992 94.8
Informal votes 1,204 5.2
Turnout 23,196 83.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Nick Champion 15,319 69.7 +7.8
Liberal Shawn Lock 6,673 30.3 −7.8
Labor hold Swing+7.8

Notes

  1. ↑ Electoral District of Taylor (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "2003 - Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission | Electoral Commission SA". Edbc.sa.gov.au. 18 March 2006. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "Final Redistribution Report - Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission | Electoral Commission SA". Edbc.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "2020 - Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission | Electoral Commission SA". Edbc.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 August 2022.

References

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