ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF ASHFORD

'Ashford' is an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly which includes many of Adelaide's inner south western suburbs. The district forms part of three federal electorates: the Division of Hindmarsh, the Division of Boothby and the Division of Adelaide.
The electorate's name dervives from the name given by early settler Charles Everard's property 'Ashford' in 1838 that was thought to have the best orchard in the colony. The name was also given to a suburb within the electorate. The electorate includes the suburbs of Cowandilla, Hilton, Mile End South, Keswick, Richmond, Marleston, Kurralta Park, Ashford, Forestville, Everard Park, Plympton, Glandore, Black Forest, Clarence Park and parts of Wayville, Goodwood, North Plympton, Plympton Park, South Plympton, Edwardstown, Millswood and Clarence Gardens. The electorate covers an area of approximately 15.4km².
Hanson was renamed to Ashford in 1997. When the electoral laws were changed so that electoral boundaries had to take voting patterns into account, Hanson was re-drawn as a Labor electorate in 1993, which caused Heini Becker to move to Peake (now known as West Torrens), however it was still narrowly won by Liberal candidate Stewart Leggett. Currently the seat is held by Labor minister Stephanie Key who defeated Liberal Stewart Leggett at the 1997 election. Her Liberal challenger at the 2006 election was Kevin Kaeding, however Key increased her two party preferred margin to 16.1%.

'2006 South Australian state election'
'Registered Voters'		22,841		'Safe Labor'
'Votes Cast'		20,860		'Turnout %'	91.3	-1.4
'Informal Votes'		834		'Informal %'	4.0	+0.5
'Party'		'Candidate'	'Primary Votes'	'Vote %'	'Swing %'
	Australian Democrats	Andy Johnstone	928	4.6	-5.0
	Liberal Party of Australia	Kevin Kaeding	5,396	26.9	-10.2
	One Nation Party	David Dwyer	205	1.0	-0.6
	Family First Party	Robyn Munro	1,002	5.0	+2.0
	Australian Labor Party	Stephanie Key	10,667	53.3	+12.6	Elected
	SA Greens	Peter Hastwell	1,828	9.1	+3.7
	SA First				-2.7
'Two Candidate Preferred'
	Australian Labor Party	Stephanie Key	13,230	66.1	+12.4	Elected
	Liberal Party of Australia	Kevin Kaeding	8,853	33.9	-12.4
'Total'			20,026

Contents

Members for Hanson and Ashford

External links

Members for Hanson and Ashford

'Member'	'Party'	'Term'
Heini Becker	Liberal Party of Australia	1970—1993
Stewart Leggett	Liberal Party of Australia	1993—1997
Stephanie Key	Australian Labor Party	1997—present

External links

★ ABC profile for Ashford

★ Poll Bludger profile for Ashford

★ State Electoral Office map for Ashford

★ State Electoral Office profile for Ashford