Electoral district of Taylor

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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
MPJon Gee
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; 138.55444Coordinates: 34°41′4″S 138°33′16″E / 34.68444°S 138.55444°E / -34.68444; 138.55444
Electorates around Taylor:
Gulf St Vincent Narungga Schubert
Gulf St Vincent Taylor Light
Gulf St Vincent Port Adelaide 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 318.7 km² semi-urban electorate in Adelaide's far northern suburbs and fringe farmland. A large portion of the district lives in its southern edges, corresponding to the northern fringes of Adelaide. It includes the suburbs, towns and localities of Andrews Farm, Angle Vale, Buckland Park, Burton, Davoren Park, Direk, Edinburgh, Edinburgh North, Elizabeth North, Macdonald Park, Middle Beach, Penfield, Penfield Gardens, Port Gawler, Smithfield, Smithfield Plains, Two Wells, Virginia, and Waterloo Corner.

Taylor was created for the 1993 state election between the northern metropolitan seats of Ramsay and 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. It is regarded as a safe Labor seat.

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–present

Election results[]

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Taylor
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2018 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Taylor.[]
2018 South Australian state election: Taylor[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jon Gee 9,786 43.6 −4.3
SA-Best Sonja Taylor 5,644 25.1 +25.1
Liberal Sarika Sharma 4,308 19.2 −13.0
Greens Kate Randell 1,491 6.6 −0.5
Conservatives Danny Bradley 1,239 5.5 −6.4
Total formal votes 22,468 94.3 −1.4
Informal votes 1,358 5.7 +1.4
Turnout 23,826 86.7 +4.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Jon Gee 13,660 60.8 +2.3
Liberal Sarika Sharma 8,808 39.2 −2.3
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labor Jon Gee 12,516 55.7 −2.8
SA-Best Sonja Taylor 9,952 44.3 +44.3
Labor hold  

Notes[]

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

References[]

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