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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Grey, South Australia
Outback South Australia: Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Whyalla
Sitting member: Rowan Ramsey (Liberal), elected 2007
Enrolment at close of rolls: 102,071
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 13.5%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Scott Martin
Australian Labor Party |
2. Rowan Ramsey
Liberal Party |
3. Philip Gourlay
Independent |
4. Cheryl Kaminski
Family First |
5. Jillian Marsh
Australian Greens |
6. Andrea Broadfoot
Nick Xenophon Team |
2013 results
Statistics and history
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 levels, 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 now 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 won Grey for the Liberals in 1993, after the retirement of the last Labor member. He held it without difficulty until his own retirement in 2007. There was a large swing to Labor at that election, but not enough for Labor to win.
Rowan Ramsey, Liberal MP for Grey since 2007, was a farmer at Kimba before his election. He has had no trouble retaining this seat since his election. The Labor candidate is Scott Martin, Whyalla organiser for the Australian Workers Union.
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