Electoral district of MacKillop

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MacKillop
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of South Australia with electoral district of MacKillop highlighted
Electoral district of MacKillop (green) in South Australia
StateSouth Australia
Created1993
MPNick McBride
PartyLiberal Party of Australia (SA)
NamesakeMary MacKillop
Electors23,359 (2018)
Area25,312.9 km2 (9,773.4 sq mi)
DemographicRural
Coordinates36°39′S 139°55′E / 36.650°S 139.917°E / -36.650; 139.917Coordinates: 36°39′S 139°55′E / 36.650°S 139.917°E / -36.650; 139.917
Electorates around MacKillop:
Finniss Hammond Victoria
Mawson MacKillop Victoria
Southern Ocean Mount Gambier Victoria
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

MacKillop is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was named in 1991 after Sister Mary MacKillop who served the local area, and later became the first Australian to be canonised as a Roman Catholic saint. MacKillop is a 25,313 km² rural electorate in the south-east of the state, stretching south and west from the mouth of the Murray River to the Victorian State border, but excluding the far-southern point of the state, (which includes Mount Gambier). It contains the Kingston District Council, Naracoorte Lucindale Council, District Council of Robe, Tatiara District Council, Wattle Range Council, as well as parts of The Coorong District Council. The main population centres are Bordertown, Keith, Kingston SE, Meningie, Millicent, Naracoorte, Penola and Robe.

MacKillop was first contested at the 1993 election, essentially as a reconfigured version of the old electoral district of Victoria.[2] Like its predecessor, it is a comfortably safe Liberal seat. Counting its time as Victoria, the seat has been held by the Liberals or their predecessors, the Liberal and Country League, for all but two terms since the switch to single-member seats in 1938.

The last member for Victoria, Dale Baker, a former state leader of the Liberal Party, transferred to MacKillop and won it easily. Baker went on to serve as a minister in the Brown and Olsen governments before being unseated at the 1997 election by Mitch Williams, who ran as an independent after losing a preselection battle with Baker. Williams returned to the Liberal Party in 1999 and was easily re-elected as a Liberal at the 2002 election. He held the seat without serious difficulty until his retirement in 2018, handing the seat to fellow Liberal Nick McBride.

The seat is almost entirely within the equally conservative federal seat of Barker.

Members for MacKillop[]

Member Party Term
  Dale Baker Liberal 1993–1997
  Mitch Williams Independent 1997–1999
  Liberal 1999–2018
  Nick McBride Liberal 2018–present

Election results[]

Main article: Electoral results for the district of MacKillop
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2018 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § MacKillop.[]
2018 South Australian state election: MacKillop[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Nick McBride 11,346 54.8 −10.2
SA-Best Tracy Hill 3,902 18.8 +18.8
Labor Hilary Wigg 2,022 9.8 −4.9
Conservatives Richard Bateman 1,799 8.7 +1.1
Independent Jon Ey 1,142 5.5 +5.5
Greens Donella Peters 492 2.4 −3.3
Total formal votes 20,703 95.9 −1.2
Informal votes 882 4.1 +1.2
Turnout 21,585 92.4 −0.9
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Nick McBride 15,519 75.0 −1.7
Labor Hilary Wigg 5,184 25.0 +1.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
Liberal Nick McBride 13,995 67.6 −9.1
SA-Best Tracy Hill 6,708 32.4 +32.4
Liberal hold  

Notes[]

  1. ^ Electoral District of MacKillop (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. ^ "MacKillop". 2010 South Australian Election. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  3. ^ State Election Results – District Results for MacKillop, ECSA.

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