Electoral district of Giles
| Giles Labor | |||||||||||||||
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| Namesake | Ernest Giles | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 22,712 (2014) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 497,005 km2 (191,894.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Provincial, rural and remote | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 29°39′S 133°52′E / 29.650°S 133.867°E | ||||||||||||||
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| Electoral District map[1] | |||||||||||||||
Giles is a single-member
Giles was created at the 1991 electoral redistribution to replace the abolished
Sitting Labor MP for Whyalla and incumbent government minister Frank Blevins had won a second term in 1989 with a safe 10.9 percent two-party preferred margin. However, upon the creation of Giles, Labor's two-party preferred margin was halved to 5.2 percent. At the 1993 election landslide, Blevins saw his margin cut to 2.4 percent. Giles was the only rural seat retained by Labor in an election where Labor was reduced to 10 seats in the 47 seat house. The election resulted in permanent swings away from Labor in most of country South Australia. Giles was the only rural Labor-held electorate until Labor won Light at the 2006 election landslide; since then Light has remained in Labor hands.
At the redistribution prior to the
Breuer made the electorate fairly secure for Labor at subsequent elections before retiring from politics at the 2014 election, where Labor candidate Eddie Hughes retained the seat with only a small swing against him. He was re-elected in 2018, an election that saw the Liberals pushed into third place.
Members for Giles
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Blevins | Labor
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1993–1997 | |
| Lyn Breuer | Labor
|
1997–2014 | |
| Eddie Hughes | Labor
|
2014–present | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Eddie Hughes | 11,285 | 58.0 | +10.1 | |
| Liberal | Graham Taylor | 3,460 | 17.8 | −2.5 | |
| SA-Best | Tom Antonio | 2,171 | 11.2 | −11.9 | |
| One Nation | Barry Drage | 1,236 | 6.4 | +6.4 | |
| Greens | Jane Mount | 753 | 3.9 | −0.2 | |
| Family First | John McComb | 536 | 2.8 | +2.8 | |
| Total formal votes | 19,441 | 96.4 | |||
| Informal votes | 725 | 3.6 | |||
| Turnout | 20,166 | 80.8 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Eddie Hughes | 13,798 | 71.0 | +6.1 | |
| Liberal | Graham Taylor | 5,643 | 29.0 | −6.1 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +6.1 | |||
Notes
- ^ Electoral District of Giles (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]