South Australian state election results

The South Australian state election was held on 18th March 2006, and resulted in a second consecutive win for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The swing to Labor from the last election was 8.9%. In 2002 Labor received 36.3% of the vote, in 2006 this rose to 45.2%.

The eleven vacant seats in the Legislative Council were distributed as follows: ALP 4, Liberal Party 3, Independent (Nick Xenophon) 2, Family First Party 1, Australian Greens 1. The seats were won by 3 female and 8 male candidates.

The forty-seven seats in the House of Assembly were distributed as follows: ALP 28, Liberal Party 15, National Party 1, Independents 3. The seats were won by 17 female and 30 male candidates.

The next State election is scheduled to take place on 20th March, 2010.

Electorates in the City of Onkaparinga
The electorates of Fisher (Ind), Kaurna (ALP), Mawson (ALP) and Reynell (ALP) are wholly within the boundaries of the City of Onkaparinga, while Bright (ALP), Davenport (Lib), Heysen (Lib) and Mitchell (ALP) straddle the boundaries of Onkaparinga and other Local Government Areas. An Electoral Boundaries map is presented at the end of this article.

Non-voters
There are 178,251 registered voters in the eight electorates which cover the City of Onkaparinga. There were 165,577 votes received, which means that 12,674 people (7.1%) did not vote. This was slightly (0.9%) below the average for metropolitan Adelaide, where 8% of registered voters did not vote in the last election. The percentage of non-voters ranged from 6.2% in the electorate of Newland to 9.5% in Enfield and 10.8% in Adelaide.

2006 South Australian state election results - electorates in the City of Onkaparinga

Electorate of Bright ( 22,437 enrolled voters )
Party	Candidate	No. Votes	% of formal votes	after 2-party pref- erences
Australian Labor Party	Chloe Fox	10,126	50.2	59.4%
Liberal Party	Angus Redford	6,949	34.4	40.6%
Australian Greens	Allan Robins	1,315	6.5
Family First Party	Andrew Cole	905	4.5
Dignity for Disabled	Trevor Pratt	492	2.4
Australian Democrats	Caroline Siow	395	2.0
Informal		600	*
Total Ballot Papers: 20,782		20,782	100.0	100.0%
Enrolled voters who did not vote		1,655	7.4%


Electorate of Davenport ( 21,777 enrolled voters )
Party	Candidate	No. Votes	% of formal votes	after 2-party pref- erences
Liberal Party	Iain Evans	9,579	48.5	56.4%
Australian Labor Party	Gerry Bowen	6,111	30.9	43.6%
Australian Greens	Adrian Miller	2,250	11.4
Australian Democrats	Bridgid Medder	927	4.7
Family First Party	Toni Howard	897	4.5
Informal		474	*
Total Ballot Papers: 20,238		20,238	100.0	100.0%
Enrolled voters who did not vote		1,539	7.1%


Electorate of Fisher ( 22,535 enrolled voters )
Party	Candidate	No. Votes	% of formal votes	after 2-party pref- erences
Independant	Bob Such	9,212	45.2	66.7%
Australian Labor Party	Amanda Rushworth	5,373	26.4	33.3%
Liberal Party	Andy Minnis	3,774	18.5
Family First Party	Kathryn Rijken	1,037	5.1
Australian Greens	Mark Byrne	699	3.4
Australian Democrats	Max Baumann	291	1.4
Informal		631	*
Total Ballot Papers: 21,017		21,017	100.0	100.0%
Enrolled voters who did not vote		1,518	6.7%


Electorate of Heysen ( 21,889 enrolled voters )
Party	Candidate	No. Votes	% of formal votes	after 2-party pref- erences
Liberal Party	Isobel Redmond	8,683	43.9	53.0%
Australian Labor Party	Andrew Christie	5,553	28.1	47.0%
Australian Greens	John Gitsham	3,508	17.7
Australian Democrats	Rosemary Drabsch	1,044	5.3
Family First Party	Peter Robins	996	5.0
Informal		539	*
Total Ballot Papers: 20,323		20,323	100.0	100.0%
Enrolled voters who did not vote		1,566	7.2%


Electorate of Kaurna ( 22,235 enrolled voters )
Party	Candidate	No. Votes	% of formal votes	after 2-party pref- erences
Australian Labor Party	John Hill	11,827	60.2	72.0%
Liberal Party	Tim Flaherty	4,036	20.5	28.0%
Australian Greens	Corrie Vanderhoek	1,444	7.3
Family First Party	Paul Munn	1,328	6.8
Australian Democrats	Graham Pratt	423	2.2
Independent	Barry Becker	299	1.5
Independent	Jeanie Walker	291	1.5
Informal		884	*
Total Ballot Papers: 20,532		20,532	100.0	100.0%
Enrolled voters who did not vote		1,703	7.7%


Electorate of Mawson ( 22,578 enrolled voters )
Party	Candidate	No. Votes	% of formal votes	after 2-party pref- erences
Australian Labor Party	Leon Bignall	8,886	43.8	52.2%
Liberal Party	Robert Brokenshire	8,087	39.9	47.8%
Family First Party	Roger Andrews	1,330	6.6
Australian Greens	Mika Kabacznik