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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Mayo, South Australia
East and south of Adelaide: Mt Barker, Stirling, Strathalbyn, Victor Harbor
Sitting member: Hon Jamie Briggs (Liberal), elected 2008
Enrolment at close of rolls: 103,967
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 12.5%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Glen Dallimore
Australian Labor Party |
2. Rebekha Sharkie
Nick Xenophon Team |
3. Luke Dzivinski
Liberal Democratic Party |
4. Nathan Daniell
Australian Greens |
5. Hon Jamie Briggs
Liberal Party |
6. Bruce Hicks
Family First |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Mayo was created in 1984, in the Adelaide Hills area east of Adelaide. This is one of the wealthiest suburban areas in Australia, and the seat has always been very safe for the Liberal Party. In 2004, however, the seat was extended southwards to take in the farming areas of the Flerieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island, and the retirement centre of Victor Harbor. These areas lowered the overall median family income of the seat, without much affecting it politically. Mayo used to be one of the Australian Democrats' best seats, and in 1990 and again in 1998 they gave the Liberals a scare, nearly stealing the seat on Labor preferences. With the collapse of the Democrats, however, the Liberals became very secure.
Mayo's first member was Alexander Downer, whose father Sir Alexander Downer represented much the same area as member for Angas from 1949 to 1964. Downer was an unsuccessful Opposition Leader from 1994 to 1995. He then served as Australia's longest-serving Foreign Minister under John Howard. He resigned following the 2007 election defeat.
Jamie Briggs, Liberal MP for Mayo since the 2008 by-election which followed Downer's resignation, was an adviser to John Howard and other ministers before his election. He was a junior minister in the Abbott-Turnbull Government but resigned in December 2015 following revelations of inappropriate behavior. The damage to his reputation may make him vulnerable in his electorate, not to Labor but to the Xenophon Team candidate, Rebekha Sharkie, who is a former member of Briggs's staff.
The Labor candidate is Glen Dallimore, a shipbuilding worker and Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union delegate.
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