Electoral district of Enfield
| Enfield Labor | |||||||||||||||
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| Namesake | Enfield, South Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 25,853 (2019) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 16.48 km2 (6.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°51′58″S 138°36′27″E / 34.86611°S 138.60750°E | ||||||||||||||
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| Electoral District map[1] | |||||||||||||||
Enfield is a single-member
Lightsview, Northgate, and Sefton Park; and parts of Nailsworth, Northfield and Prospect. The seat was vacant pending a by-election in February 2019—Labor MP John Rau resigned from parliament in December 2018, following Labor's defeat at the 2018 South Australian state election in March.[2] Labor's Andrea Michaels
was elected as Rau's successor on 9 February after defeating Independent candidate Gary Johanson in the by-election.
Enfield was first created to replace the abolished electoral district of Prospect for the 1956 election.[3] It was abolished for the 1970 election, substantially replaced by the new electorate of Ross Smith.
Enfield was recreated for the
Liberal candidate. At the 2006 election, Clarke decided to contest a South Australian Legislative Council
seat, for which he had very little chance of success. Without competition from Clarke, Rau extended his margin, easily retaining the electorate for Labor.
In the 2016 redistribution by the electoral districts boundaries commission, the districts southern suburbs of
Lightsview and part of Northfield within Enfield district, and the southwestern boundary was shifted south slightly to include part of Prospect
.
In both of its incarnations, Enfield has been a comfortably-safe Labor seat. Counting its time as Prospect and Ross Smith, Labor has held it without interruption since 1953.
Members for Enfield
| First incarnation 1956–1970 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Jack Jennings | Labor
|
1956–1970 | |
| Second incarnation 2002– | |||
| Member | Party | Term | |
| John Rau | Labor
|
2002–2018 | |
| Andrea Michaels | Labor
|
2019–present | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Andrea Michaels | 12,145 | 52.3 | +13.6 | |
| Liberal | Saru Rana | 6,768 | 29.2 | +1.3 | |
| Greens | Busby Cavanagh | 2,310 | 10.0 | +2.4 | |
| One Nation | Rajan Vaid | 1,041 | 4.5 | +4.5 | |
| Family First | Martin Petho | 938 | 4.0 | +4.0 | |
| Total formal votes | 23,202 | 96.7 | |||
| Informal votes | 793 | 3.3 | |||
| Turnout | 23,995 | 88.1 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Andrea Michaels | 14,972 | 64.5 | +8.3 | |
| Liberal | Saru Rana | 8,230 | 35.5 | −8.3 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +8.3 | |||
Notes
- ^ Electoral District of Enfield (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Former SA deputy premier John Rau quits Parliament". ABC News. 10 December 2018.
- ^ "Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 – 2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2014.