Electoral district of Ramsay
| Ramsay Australian Labor Party (SA) | |||||||||||||||
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| Namesake | Alexander Ramsay | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 26,796 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 19.07 km2 (7.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°46′31″S 138°37′55″E / 34.77528°S 138.63194°E | ||||||||||||||
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| Electoral District map[1] | |||||||||||||||
Ramsay is a single-member
Direk, portion of Elizabeth South, Elizabeth Vale, portion of Paralowie, Salisbury, Salisbury South, Salisbury Plain and Salisbury North
.
Ramsay was first contested at the
Labor seat, with the fifth-largest Labor margin in the state at the 1997 election, second-largest at the 2002 election, and largest at the 2006 election where Labor won 71.5 percent of the first preference vote and 78.5 percent of the two-party vote, and the largest at the 2010 election. A 2012 Ramsay by-election occurred on 11 February as a result of Mike Rann's resignation from parliament, Labor easily retained the seat and maintained the largest Labor seat margin. It had the second largest margin following the 2014 election
.
At the 2020 redistribution, Ramsay gained the suburbs of Brahma Lodge, Burton, Direk, Elizabeth Vale and Salisbury South. It also gains a portion of the suburb of Elizabeth South and the remainder of the suburb of Salisbury North but lost the suburb of Salisbury Downs and a portion of the suburb of Paralowie to the Electorate of Playford.
Members for Ramsay
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynn Arnold | Labor
|
1985–1993 | |
| Mike Rann | Labor
|
1993–2012 | |
| Zoe Bettison | Labor
|
2012–present | |
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | Zoe Bettison | 13,401 | 60.0 | +9.8 | |
| Liberal | Nicholas Charles | 4,780 | 21.4 | +5.5 | |
| Family First | Rolando See | 2,556 | 11.4 | +11.4 | |
| Greens | Dominique Lock | 1,598 | 7.2 | +1.3 | |
| Total formal votes | 22,335 | 95.8 | |||
| Informal votes | 968 | 4.2 | |||
| Turnout | 23,303 | 83.8 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Zoe Bettison | 15,620 | 69.9 | +1.4 | |
| Liberal | Nicholas Charles | 6,715 | 30.1 | −1.4 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +1.4 | |||
Notes
- ^ Electoral District of Ramsay (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link]