Electoral district of Ramsay

Ramsay
South Australia—House of Assembly
Ramsay; South Australia—House of Assembly
	Electoral district of Ramsay (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1985
MP	Zoe Bettison
Party	Australian Labor Party (SA)
Namesake	Alexander Ramsay
Electors	26,796 (2018)
Area	19.07 km2 (7.4 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	34°46′31″S 138°37′55″E / 34.77528°S 138.63194°ECoordinates: 34°46′31″S 138°37′55″E / 34.77528°S 138.63194°E
	Electorates around Ramsay:
Footnotes
	Electoral District map

Ramsay is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after Alexander Ramsay, who was general manager of the South Australian Housing Trust for 25 years. It is a 24.7 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 Paralowie, Salisbury, Salisbury Downs and Salisbury Plain, as well as part of Salisbury North.

Ramsay was first contested at the 1985 election. Two of three 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 occurred on 11 February as a result of Mike Rann's resignation from parliament, Labor easily retained the seat and maintained the largest Labor seat margin. It had the second largest margin following the 2014 election.

Members for Ramsay[]

	Party	Term
Lynn Arnold	Labor	1985–1993
Mike Rann	Labor	1993–2012
Zoe Bettison	Labor	2012–present

Election results[]

2018 South Australian state election: Ramsay^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Zoe Bettison	11,055	49.6	−6.0
	SA-Best	Tarnia George	4,090	18.3	+18.3
	Liberal	Nick Charles	3,605	16.2	−9.3
	Independent	Mark Aldridge	1,539	6.9	+6.9
	Greens	Brett Ferris	1,082	4.9	−2.6
	Conservatives	Domenico Ialeggio	936	4.2	−7.3
Total formal votes			22,307	93.6	−1.8
Informal votes			1,528	6.4	+1.8
Turnout			23,835	88.9	+3.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Zoe Bettison	15,374	68.9	+1.2
	Liberal	Nick Charles	6,933	31.1	−1.2
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Labor	Zoe Bettison	14,600	65.5	−2.3
	SA-Best	Tarnia George	7,707	34.5	+34.5
	Labor hold

Notes[]

^ Electoral District of Ramsay (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ State Election Results – District Results for Ramsay, ECSA.

References[]

[1] Electoral District of Ramsay (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

[2] State Election Results – District Results for Ramsay, ECSA.

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