Division of Spence

Spence
Australian House of Representatives Division
MP None until next Australian federal election
Namesake Catherine Helen Spence
Electors 116,179 (2017)[1]:32
Area 532 km2 (205.4 sq mi)
Demographic Outer Metropolitan
Coordinates 34°42′S 138°42′E / 34.7°S 138.7°E / -34.7; 138.7Coordinates: 34°42′S 138°42′E / 34.7°S 138.7°E / -34.7; 138.7
Electorates around Spence:
Grey Barker
Spence
Hindmarsh Makin Mayo

The Division of Spence is an electoral district for the Australian House of Representatives. It is located in the outer northern suburbs of Adelaide in South Australia. It is named in honour of Catherine Helen Spence, an advocate for female suffrage and electoral reform and the first female political candidate in Australia.[2]

Spence was created in the electoral redistribution that concluded in July 2018 as a replacement for the Division of Wakefield. It is essentially the more urbanised southern portion of the formerly hybrid urban-rural Wakefield. The Division of Port Adelaide was abolished after South Australia was reduced from 11 electorates to ten, resulting in quite large movements of the remaining electorates' boundaries to fill in the gap.[1]

The geographic extent of Spence is approximately the Adelaide Plains between the Little Para River in the south and the Gawler River on the north, plus areas around Gawler and Salisbury. It includes all of the City of Playford and Town of Gawler; along with Concordia and Kalbeeba from the Barossa Council, and Gawler Belt and Buchfelde from Light Regional Council on the outskirts of Gawler. Spence also includes six suburbs in the City of Salisbury south of the Little Para River but west and north of Main North Road and Kings Road.[3] On these boundaries, it is very similar to the final configuration of Bonython, which was based on Adelaide's outer northern suburbs until it was abolished in 2004 and largely merged with Wakefield.

Spence is expected to be a comfortably safe Labor seat with a notional Labor majority of 17.9 percent.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Proposed redistribution of South Australia into electoral divisions" (PDF). Report of the Redistribution Committee for South Australia. Australian Electoral Commission. April 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Profile of the electoral division of Spence (SA)". Australian Electoral Commission. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Map of the Federal Electoral Division of Spence (PDF) (Map). Australian Electoral Commission. July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "2017-18 Federal Redistribution - South Australia". ABC Elections. 26 June 2018.
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