DIVISION OF WAKEFIELD

The 'Division of Wakefield' is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of South Australia. It is located north of Adelaide, incorporating the outer northern suburbs of Salisbury and Elizabeth, and extending north as far as Clare. It covers the east coast of the Gulf Saint Vincent north of Adelaide, all the way to Port Wakefield. It also includes the towns of Balaklava, Tarlee, Kapunda and Gawler.
The Division was named after Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who promoted colonisation as a tool for social engineering, plans which formed the basis for settlements in South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It was proclaimed at the redistribution of 2 October 1903, when South Australia was first broken up into Divisions. It was first contested at the 1903 Federal election. The seat is currently a marginal Liberal seat. It has previously been held by Neil Andrew, a former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives. It was first held by Hon Sir Frederick Holder, the first Speaker of the House, who was also twice the Premier of South Australia.
Before the redistribution for the 2004 election, Wakefield was predominantly rural, including the Barossa Valley area, but not the Salisbury, Elizabeth and Smithfield areas. The northern suburbs were added to Wakefield when the Division of Bonython was abolished by the redistribution. As a rural electorate it was much more safely Liberal-held than it is now. David Fawcett currently holds a two party preferred margin of 0.7 percent in this seat leading up to the 2007 federal election.^[1]

Contents

Members

Election results

References

External links

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Frederick Holder	Protectionist	1903—1906
	Frederick Holder	Anti-Socialist	1906—1909
	Richard Foster	Commonwealth Liberal	1909—1916
	Richard Foster	Nationalist	1916—1928
	Maurice Collins	Country	1928—1929
	Charles Hawker	Nationalist	1929—1931
	Charles Hawker	United Australia	1931—1938
	Sydney McHugh	Labor	1938—1940
	John Duncan-Hughes	United Australia	1940—1943
	Albert Smith	Labor	1943—1946
	Philip McBride	Liberal	1946—1958
	Charles Kelly	Liberal	1958—1977
	Geoffrey Giles	Liberal	1977—1983
	Neil Andrew	Liberal	1983—2004
	David Fawcett	Liberal	2004—present

Election results

References

1. Wakefield

External links

★ 2004 election results

★ Map of division

★ Old division boundaries