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Division of Grey | Griffith |
 Rowan Ramsey (Lib) His electorate website |  |
Location: Outback SA: Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Whyalla Division named for: Sir George Grey, Governor of South Australia 1841-45 Median weekly family income: $678 (143rd highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 4.4% (120th highest) Persons in professional occupations: 27.6% (56th highest) Persons engaged in agriculture: 16.6% (13th highest) Persons aged 65 and over: 14.2% (53rd highest) Couple families with dependent children: 36.3% (102nd highest) Dwellings being purchased: 20.9% (121st highest) Sitting member: Rowan Ramsey (Liberal), elected 2007 1996 two-party majority: Liberal 08.5 1998 two-party majority: Liberal 08.0 Effect of redistribution: 00.7 shift to Liberal 2001 two-party majority: Liberal 10.6 Effect of 2004 redistribution: no change 2004 two-party majority: Liberal 13.8 2007 two-party majority: Liberal 04.4 
2004 enrolment: 97,291 2007 enrolment: 98,074 (+00.8%) Grey has existed since South Australia was first divided into electorates in 1903, occupying most of the northern part of South Australia. Originally a largely pastoral and farming seat, Grey later came to be dominated by the mining and smelting towns of Whyalla, Port Augusta and Port Pirie, and was a fairly safe Labor seat for many years. The decline of those industries, the decline of the rural working class, and boundary changes which have extended the seat southwards into farming areas such as the Yorke Peninsula, have turned Grey back into a fairly safe Liberal seat in recent years. The seat has among the country's lowest median family income level, and also a low proportion of people born in non English speaking countries. It has a high proportion of people engaged in agriculture, mainly on the Yorke and Eyre peninsulas. Although Whyalla is the largest town in the electorate, and still votes solidly Labor, it is usually outvoted by the rural parts of the seat. In most of the small rural booths the Liberals get more than 80% of the two-party vote. Barry Wakelin held Grey for the Liberals from 1993 to 2007. He retired in 2007, and it seemed possible that Labor might win the seat despite the large Liberal majority. In the event Rowan Ramsey retained the seat, but Labor gained a swing of 9.4%, bringing the seat back into the marginal category. The Liberals won nearly all the rural booths by wide margins, reaching 96% in Poochera and topping 85% of the two-party vote in Karkoo, Lock, Smoky Bay and Warramboo. Labor won all the booths in Whyalla, Port Augusta and Port Pirie, reaching 72% of the two-party vote in Whyalla Norrie South. Labor gained swings of over 8% in all of these booths: the swing reached 18.1% in Whyalla Norrie East. | | 
Two-party vote by booth (north)
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