Electoral district of Wright

Wright
South Australia—House of Assembly
Wright; South Australia—House of Assembly
	Electoral district of Wright (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1993
MP	Blair Boyer
Party	Australian Labor Party (SA)
Namesake	Edmund Wright
Electors	26,997 (2018)
Area	21 km2 (8.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	34°47′2″S 138°41′14″E / 34.78389°S 138.68722°E
	Electorates around Wright:
Footnotes
	Electoral District map

Wright is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly.^[2] Named after the 19th century South Australian architect Edmund Wright, it is a 21 km² (8.1 sq mi) suburban electorate in Adelaide's outer north-east, taking in the suburbs of Brahma Lodge, Gulfview Heights, Modbury Heights, Redwood Park, Salisbury South and Wynn Vale, as well as parts of Salisbury East and Surrey Downs.

When created, Wright was a marginal Labor seat at the 1991 electoral distribution, taking in much of the abolished seat of Briggs. Wright was first contested at the 1993 election, where it was won by Liberal candidate Scott Ashenden as part of a large swing throughout the state. He was defeated at the 1997 election by Labor candidate Jennifer Rankine.

Rankine announced in February 2017 that she would be retiring from parliament as of the 2018 election.^[3]

Members for Wright

	Party	Term
Scott Ashenden	Liberal	1993–1997
Jennifer Rankine	Labor	1997–2018
Blair Boyer	Labor	2018–present

Election results

2022 South Australian state election: Wright
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Blair Boyer	12,231	52.0	+14.1
	Liberal	Graham Reynolds	7,550	32.1	+1.0
	Greens	Alexandra McGee	2,001	8.5	+2.7
	Family First	Kym Nancarrow	1,737	7.4	+7.4
Total formal votes			23,519	97.2
Informal votes			670	2.8
Turnout			24,189	90.7
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Blair Boyer	14,548	61.9	+8.8
	Liberal	Graham Reynolds	8,971	38.1	−8.8
	Labor hold		Swing	+8.8

Notes

^ Electoral District of Wright (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 – 2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
^ State Labor MPs Michael Atkinson, Jennifer Rankine and Steph Key quitting politics at next election: The Advertiser 3 February 2017

References

[1] Electoral District of Wright (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[SAparl-2] "Statistical Record of the Legislature, 1836 – 2007" (PDF). Parliament of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2014.

[3] State Labor MPs Michael Atkinson, Jennifer Rankine and Steph Key quitting politics at next election: The Advertiser 3 February 2017

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