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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Sturt, South Australia
Eastern Adelaide: Glenunga, Highbury, Kensington, Rostrevor
Sitting member: Hon Christopher Pyne (Liberal), elected 1993
Enrolment at close of rolls: 104,764
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 10.1%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Dr Matthew Wright
Nick Xenophon Team |
2. Rebecca Galdies
Australian Greens |
3. Geoff Russell
Animal Justice Party |
4. Craig Bowyer
Family First |
5. Matt Loader
Australian Labor Party |
6. Hon Christopher Pyne
Liberal Party |
7. Neil Aitchison
Independent
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2013 results
Statistics and history
Sturt was created in 1949, and has always occupied a block of territory in Adelaide's eastern suburbs, between the city and the hills. It includes some very wealthy areas in the south and in the fringes of the Adelaide Hills, but is mostly middle class suburbia. There are a few Labor-voters areas in the north of the seat. Sturt combines a fairly high median family income level, a fairly high proportion of people born in non English speaking countries and a fairly high proportion of people in professional occupations. This is usually a dangerous combination for a Liberal member. Although Sturt has usually been a marginal seat, Labor has only won it twice, in 1954 and 1969.
Christopher Pyne, Liberal MP for Sturt since 1993, was a 26-year-old solicitor and Liberal staffer when he succeeded the veteran former minister Ian Wilson. He had a long wait for promotion, but was a minister in the last term of the Howard Government. He survived a close call in Sturt in 2007, and was then Manager of Opposition Business in the House during the Coalition's term in opposition. He has been first Minister for Education and then Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science in the Abbott-Turnbull Government.
Although Pyne has now held Sturt for 23 years (and is not yet 50), and has a majority of 10.1%, this is still a seat Labor believes it can win if there is a strong swing against the Turnbull Government in South Australia, which is possible. Labor's candidate in 2016 will be Matt Loader, who works for the South Australian Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure and is also a prominent gay rights campaigner. The Nick Xenophon Team candidate is Dr Matthew Wright, an emergency physician at Flinders Medical Centre.
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