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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Makin, South Australia
North-eastern Adelaide: Modbury, Para Hills, Salisbury Heights, Tea Tree Gully
Sitting member: Tony Zappia (Labor), elected 2007
Enrolment at close of rolls: 107,108
2013 Labor majority over Liberal 5.1%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Tony Zappia
Australian Labor Party |
2. Keiran Snape
Australian Greens |
3. Paul Coombe
Family First |
4. Mark Aldridge
Independent |
5. Zarina Greenburg
Animal Justice Party |
6. Graham Reynolds
Liberal Party |
7. Craig Bossie
Nick Xenophon Team |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Makin was created at the 1984 redistribution, based in the north- eastern suburbs of Adelaide, a socially mixed and always politically marginal area.
It is a young, mortgage belt electorate, with a high level of families with dependent children and a very high level of dwellings being purchased.
Labor dominates the corridor of suburbs running from Gepps Cross to Salisbury Heights, while the territory to the east is more marginal. The Liberals
have some strength in Hills suburbs like Tea Tree Gully and Golden Grove.
Makin was won for Labor in 1984 by Peter Duncan, a long-serving former state minister with a high profile, who was a junior minister in the Keating
government. Duncan was swept away in the Howard landslide of 1996, replaced by Trish Draper, a Howard favourite who entrenched herself in the seat in
1998 and 2001. After surviving a petty scandal involving her travel entitlements, she retired in 2007, and Labor won the seat. (The Liberal candidate
was Bob Day, now a Family First Senator.) Labor has held the seat since.
Tony Zappia, Labor MP for Makin since 2007, was a fitness centre manager and Mayor of Salisbury before his election. He has remained on the backbench.
The Liberal candidate is Graham Reynolds, an aerospace engineer and RAAF veteran who is a
member of Salisbury City Council.
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