Ramsay
South AustraliaHouse of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Ramsay highlighted
Electoral district of Ramsay (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created1985
MPZoe Bettison
PartyAustralian Labor Party (SA)
NamesakeAlexander Ramsay
Electors26,796 (2018)
Area19.07 km2 (7.4 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°46′31″S 138°37′55″E / 34.77528°S 138.63194°E / -34.77528; 138.63194
Electorates around Ramsay:
Taylor Taylor Elizabeth King
Port Adelaide Ramsay King
Port Adelaide Playford Wright
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Ramsay is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after Alexander Ramsay, who was general manager of the South Australian Housing Trust for 25 years. It is a 24.7 km² suburban electorate north of Adelaide—based on the angle between Main North Road and the Port Wakefield Road, Ramsay covers the outer northern Adelaide suburbs of Paralowie, Salisbury, Salisbury Downs and Salisbury Plain, as well as part of Salisbury North.

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.

Members for Ramsay

Member Party Term
  Lynn Arnold Labor 1985–1993
  Mike Rann Labor 1993–2012
  Zoe Bettison Labor 2012–present

Election results

2022 South Australian state election: Ramsay
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

  1. Electoral District of Ramsay (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

References

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