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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Grey, South Australia
Named for: Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of South Australia
1841-45 (later Governor and Prime Minister of New Zealand)
Outback South Australia: Kadina, Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Whyalla
Enrolment at 2019 election: 119,957
Enrolment at 2022 election: 123,620 (+00.7)
1999 republic referendum: No 67.7
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 53.3
2023 Voice referendum: No 79.4
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Sitting member: Rowan
Ramsey (Liberal): Elected 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022. Retiring 2025
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2007 Liberal majority over Labor: 4.4%
2010 Liberal majority over Labor: 11.2%
2013 Liberal majority over Labor: 13.5%
2016 Liberal majority over NXT: 2.0%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 13.3%
2019 Liberal majority over Labor: 10.1%
Staus: Fairly safe Liberal
Liberal two-party vote 1983-2022
2022 results
Statistics and history
Division of Grey
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
"iron triangle" of mining and smelting towns - 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.
Grey has among the country's lowest median family income levels, and also a low proportion of
non English speaking households. It has a high proportion of people engaged in agriculture, mainly on the Yorke and
Eyre peninsulas. There is a substantial Indigenous population in the northern areas of the seat. 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
Lloyd O'Neil, 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 been an
inconspicuous backbencher but had no trouble retaining this seat until 2016, when he was held to a 2.0% majority
by the Xenophon Team candidate. With the bursting of the
Nick Xenophon bubble, the seat returned to
its normal voting pattern in 2019.
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