Results of the Federal election of 2007 applied to South Australian state seats

At the Federal election of 24 November 2007, the ALP won the support of the majority of voters across Australia, won a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives and formed government. In South Australia, ALP candidates won 52.4% of the two party preferred vote, and won 6 of the State’s 11 House of Representatives seats. ALP sitting Members retained Port Adelaide, Hindmarsh and Adelaide, and ALP candidates won Kingston, Wakefield and Makin. Liberal sitting Members retained Boothby, Sturt, Mayo, Grey and Barker. This paper looks at the 2007 result, but within the geographic areas of the State House of Assembly seats. It also looks at the result of several previous State and Federal elections within those same boundaries, that is, within the current State seats. To do this, it draws on a resource which has been gradually built up by the Parliament Research Library, which is a database of the election results for each booth at each State and Federal election in South Australia since 1993. While Federal and State issues are different, the campaigns are different and the candidates are different, the voters are not. At each election, the same people queue at booths to register their choices. The following tables show how voters in each of the current State seats, have voted at the State and Federal elections since 1993. These figures summarise much larger time series tables which have been compiled within the Parliament Research Library and which are available through the Parliamentary Intranet. The original tables show the results at booth levels; this paper does not go to that level of detail but it does provide some commentary on the results. [Introduction]