Boothby
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Marginal Liberal, 5.4%
Boothby takes in a swathe of Adelaide’s central southern suburbs, from the coast at Brighton and Marino to the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges at Belair, Blackwood and Flagstaff Hill, and suburbs such as Seacombe Heights, Warradale, Pasadena and Mitcham. Liberal Andrew Southcott has been the MP since 1996. Boothby has existed since 1903 and has been held by the Liberals continuously since 1949, but the once safe seat has been gradually becoming more marginal and swung to Labor at each of the last three elections.
Labor has been polling strongly in South Australia. The party hopes to win the state’s three most marginal Liberal seats – Kingston, Wakefield and Makin – and if South Australia really moves its way Boothby will become a target. The politically-sensitive Adelaide Mitsubishi plant is in the middle of the seat, at Tonsley Park, and the future of the car industry may yet become an election wildcard. Labor’s candidate is Nicole Cornes, a high-profile newspaper columnist and the wife of the former coach of the Adelaide Crows AFL team, Graham Cornes.
Declared Candidates
- Craig
Bossie, Australian Democrats
- Nicole
Cornes, Australian Labor Party
- Jodi
Kirkby, Greens
- Andrew
Southcott, Liberal Party
2 PARTY PREFERRED BOOTH SWINGS 2004 ELECTION
2 PARTY PREFERRED VOTE BY BOOTH 2004 ELECTION
LEGEND:
Blue: Liberals
Red: Labor
Size of figure reflects the number of votes cast at booth
OTHER SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MARGINALS
