Electoral district of Lee

Lee
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Lee highlighted
Electoral district of Lee (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created1993
MPStephen Mullighan
PartyAustralian Labor Party (SA)
NamesakeMary Lee
Electors26,500 (2018)
Area18.9 km2 (7.3 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°51′31″S 138°29′56″E / 34.85861°S 138.49889°E / -34.85861; 138.49889
Electorates around Lee:
Gulf St Vincent Port Adelaide Port Adelaide
Gulf St Vincent Lee Cheltenham
Gulf St Vincent Colton West Torrens
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Lee is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after the women's suffrage campaigner Mary Lee, it is an 18.9 km2 suburban electorate on Adelaide's north-western beaches, taking in the suburbs of Grange, Royal Park, Seaton, Semaphore Park, Tennyson, West Lakes, and West Lakes Shore.

Lee was created as a fairly safe Labor electorate in the 1991 electoral distribution to replace the abolished electoral district of Albert Park and absorbed half of the abolished electoral district of Semaphore. The first member for Lee, elected at the 1993 election, was controversial Liberal MP Joe Rossi, with the governments smallest margin of 1.1 percent; Rossi's election was unexpected, but was part of a large swing away from Labor throughout the state. At the 1997 election there were large swings back to Labor. Rossi's small margin meant he was one of the first to be defeated. He was replaced by Labor's Michael Wright.

Port Adelaide Enfield Mayor Gary Johanson, who contested the 2012 Port Adelaide by-election as an independent, contested Lee at the 2014 election.[2] Wright did not contest the 2014 election. Labor candidate Stephen Mullighan won the election with a reduced 4.5 percent two-party preferred margin.

Members for Lee

Member Party Term
  Joe Rossi Liberal 1993–1997
  Michael Wright Labor 1997–2014
  Stephen Mullighan Labor 2014–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Lee
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Lee.[edit]
2022 South Australian state election: Lee
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Stephen Mullighan 11,371 51.3 +7.5
Liberal Jake Hall-Evans 7,556 34.1 +0.6
Greens Andrew Payne 1,854 8.4 +4.0
Family First John Moldovan 1,403 6.3 +6.3
Total formal votes 22,184 97.0
Informal votes 693 3.0
Turnout 22,877 88.5
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Stephen Mullighan 13,577 61.2 +5.9
Liberal Jake Hall-Evans 8,607 38.8 −5.9
Labor hold Swing +5.9

Notes

  1. ^ Electoral District of Lee (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ Contest in seat of Lee heats up with Adelaide Enfield Mayor Gary Johanson joining the election race, 13 December 2013, The Advertiser.

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