Английская Википедия:Electoral district of Light

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Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox Australian Electorate Light is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Light is named after Colonel William Light (1786 – 1839), who was the first Surveyor-General of South Australia. The electorate was created in 1857, abolished at the 1902 election and recreated at the 1938 election. It is based on the semi-rural township of Gawler, and stretches southwards into the outermost northern suburbs of Adelaide.

Covering a total area of 62.36 km², Light consists of the suburbs of Buchfelde, Evanston Gardens, Evanston Park, Evanston South, Gawler, Gawler East, Gawler South, Gawler West, Hewett, Hillier, Kudla, Munno Para, Munno Para Downs, Munno Para West, Reid, and Willaston. Although growing urbanisation in recent years has resulted in Adelaide's growth spilling into Gawler, Light is classed as a rural electorate.

The electorate was held by the Liberal Party and its predecessor, the Liberal and Country League, for all but one term from its re-creation in 1938 until 2006. For most of that time, it was a fairly safe to safe LCL/Liberal seat.

A redistribution prior to the 2002 election pushed Light further into the outer Adelaide suburbs, paring back the margin from a fairly safe 6.3 percent to an extremely marginal 1.1 percent. At the 2002 election, Liberal incumbent Malcolm Buckby picked up a small swing in his favour and retained the electorate even as the Liberals lost government. In 2006 Tony Piccolo became the second Labor member to win the electorate, and the first Labor member for the electorate in 62 years. At the 2010 election he increased his margin against the statewide trend and decades of voting patterns in the seat, and became the first Labor member to be re-elected to Light. His victory was one of two that allowed Labor to hold onto a narrow majority despite losing the two-party vote.

A redistribution prior to the 2014 election reduced Labor's margin significantly from 5.3 percent to 2.8 percent, but Labor again retained the electorate with an unchanged margin. After a redistribution slightly increased the Labor margin to 5.4 percent, Piccolo retained the seat in 2018 with a healthy swing of almost six percent, enough to make Light a fairly safe Labor seat (and just on the edge of being safe). This came even as Labor lost government, marking only the second time that the conservatives won government without holding Light.

The electorate's first member in its current incarnation as a single-member seat was Premier and LCL founder Richard Layton Butler, who held the electorate for a few months in 1938 before making an unsuccessful attempt to transfer to federal politics. Other particularly notable members include Bruce Eastick, leader of the LCL/Liberals from 1972 to 1975 and Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly during the Tonkin government.

Members

Two members (1857–1875)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
rowspan= 6 Шаблон:Australian party style|	J. T. Bagot		1857–1865	Шаблон:Australian party style|	Carrington Smedley		1857–1857
Шаблон:Australian party style|				W. H. Maturin		1858–1858
Шаблон:Australian party style|				David Shannon		1858–1860
Шаблон:Australian party style|				Francis Dutton		1860–1862
Шаблон:Australian party style|				John Rowe		1862–1862
Шаблон:Australian party style|				Francis Dutton		1862–1865
Шаблон:Australian party style|	P. B. Coglin		1865–1868	Шаблон:Australian party style|	John Rounsevell		1865–1868
Шаблон:Australian party style|	John Hart Sr.		1868–1870	Шаблон:Australian party style|	William Lewis		1868–1870
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Edward Hamilton		1870–1871	rowspan= 4 Шаблон:Australian party style|	James Pearce		1870–1875
Шаблон:Australian party style|	James White		1871–1871
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Mountifort Conner		1871–1873
Шаблон:Australian party style|	R. I. Stow		1873–1875

Three members (1875–1884)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
rowspan="3" Шаблон:Australian party style|	James White		1875–1881	Шаблон:Australian party style|	David Nock		1875–1878	Шаблон:Australian party style|	Jenkin Coles		1875–1878
rowspan="2" Шаблон:Australian party style|				James Shannon		1878–1881	Шаблон:Australian party style|	F. S. Carroll		1878–1878
Шаблон:Australian party style|							David Moody		1878–1881
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Jenkin Coles		1881–1884	Шаблон:Australian party style|	H. V. Moyle		1881–1884	Шаблон:Australian party style|	Robert Dixson		1881–1884

Two members (1884–1902)
Member		Party	Term	Member		Party	Term
rowspan="3" Шаблон:Australian party style|	Jenkin Coles		1884–1891	Шаблон:Australian party style|	David Moody		1884–1887
Шаблон:Australian party style|				Paddy Glynn		1887–1890
Шаблон:Australian party style|				J. W. White		1890–1891
Шаблон:Australian party style|		Defence League	1891–1896		Шаблон:Australian party style|	Defence League	1891–1896
rowspan=2 Шаблон:Australian party style|			1896–1902	Шаблон:Australian party style|	David Moody		1896–1899
Шаблон:Australian party style|				F. W. Paech		1899–1902

Single-member (1938–present)
Member		Party	Term
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Richard Layton Butler	Liberal and Country	1938–1938
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Herbert Michael	Liberal and Country	1939–1941
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Sydney McHugh	Labor	1941–1944
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Herbert Michael	Liberal and Country	1944–1956
Шаблон:Australian party style|	George Hambour	Liberal and Country	1956–1960
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Leslie Nicholson	Liberal and Country	1960–1962
Шаблон:Australian party style|	John Freebairn	Liberal and Country	1962–1970
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Bruce Eastick	Liberal and Country	1970–1974
Шаблон:Australian party style|		Liberal	1974–1993
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Malcolm Buckby	Liberal	1993–2006
Шаблон:Australian party style|	Tony Piccolo	Labor	2006–present

References

• ECSA profile for Light: 2018
• ABC profile for Light: 2018
• Poll Bludger profile for Light: 2018