Electoral district of Gibson

Gibson
South Australia—House of Assembly
2018 boundaries shown in green in Adelaide area
State South Australia
Created 2018
MP Corey Wingard
Party Liberal Party of Australia
Namesake Gladys Ruth Gibson CBE (1901–1972)
Electors 25,808 (2018)
Area 15.1 km2 (5.8 sq mi)
Demographic Metropolitan
Coordinates 35°01′S 138°32′E / 35.01°S 138.53°E / -35.01; 138.53Coordinates: 35°01′S 138°32′E / 35.01°S 138.53°E / -35.01; 138.53
Electorates around Gibson:
Gulf St Vincent Morphett Badcoe
Gulf St Vincent Gibson Elder
Gulf St Vincent Black Davenport
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Gibson is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election.[2]:pages 45–46

Gibson lies southwest of the Adelaide city centre and includes the suburbs of Brighton, Dover Gardens, Hove, Marion, North Brighton, Oaklands Park, Seacombe Gardens, South Brighton, Sturt, Warradale and the southern portion of Somerton Park.[3] At its creation, Gibson was projected to be notionally held by the Liberal Party with a swing of 3.2% required to lose it.[2]:Appendix 12 The 2018 creation of Gibson replaced the electoral district of Bright, although only slightly over 9,000 electors (of about 25,000) from Bright remained in Gibson after the redistribution. Other electors came from Elder, Mitchell and Morphett.[2]:Appendix 9

Corey Wingard, the member for Mitchell before the 2018 election, successfully contested Gibson;[4] while David Speirs, the member for Bright, successfully contested Black;[5] both were members of the Liberal Party.[6]

Gibson is named after Gladys Gibson CBE (1901–1972), who was a teacher and women's activist in the middle of the twentieth century.[4]

Members for Gibson

Member Party Term
  Corey Wingard Liberal 2018–present

Election results

South Australian state election, 2018: Gibson[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Corey Wingard 10,965 48.1 +2.4
Labor Matthew Carey 5,843 25.6 −9.1
SA-BEST Kris Hanna 4,107 18.0 +18.0
Greens Gwydion Rozitisolds 1,326 5.8 −3.0
Dignity Garry Connor 570 2.5 +1.5
Total formal votes 22,811 96.8 −0.6
Informal votes 762 3.2 +0.6
Turnout 23,573 91.3 +3.1
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Corey Wingard 13,537 59.3 +5.6
Labor Matthew Carey 9,274 40.7 −5.6
Liberal hold Swing +5.6

Notes

  1. ↑ Electoral District of Gibson (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Gibson (Map). South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Electorate: Gibson". SA Election 2018. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Electorate: Black". SA Election 2018. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  6. ↑ Richardson, Tom (24 February 2017). "Edwards bows out as Libs gear up for battle". InDaily. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  7. ↑ State Election Results - District Results for Gibson, ECSA.

References

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