Electoral District Of Ramsay
Ramsay was first contested at the 1985 election. Two of three representatives of the electorate have served as Premier of South Australia. It is a safe 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 gained 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.