The Division of Makin is an
electoral division
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for the
Australian House of Representatives
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The term of members of the ...
located in the northeastern suburbs of
Adelaide
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. The 130 km² seat covers an area from
Little Para River
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...
and
Gould Creek
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in the north-east to
Grand Junction Road
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in the south and
Port Wakefield Road
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in the west, including the suburbs of
Banksia Park,
Fairview Park,
Golden Grove,
Greenwith,
Gulfview Heights,
Ingle Farm
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,
Mawson Lakes
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,
Modbury
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,
Para Hills
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,
Para Vista,
Pooraka,
Redwood Park,
Ridgehaven
Ridgehaven is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Tea Tree Gully
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,
Salisbury East,
Salisbury Heights,
St Agnes,
Surrey Downs,
Tea Tree Gully
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,
Valley View,
Vista
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,
Walkley Heights
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,
Wynn Vale,
Yatala Vale, and parts of
Gepps Cross
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and
Hope Valley.
Geography
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Australian Electoral Commission
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. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.
History
Established in the South Australian redistribution of 3 September 1984 and named after MP and diplomat
Norman Makin
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, it was a marginal
mortgage belt
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seat with a higher proportion of the population in the area paying off home loans. In the
2006 census
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, over 42 percent of the seat's electors had a home
mortgage
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; ranking it 19th highest in Australia's 150 seats.
Created ahead of the
1984 election as a notionally fairly safe
Labor
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seat, Labor won marginally. For the first quarter-century of its existence, the seat was a "
bellwether
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" ''Cambridge Dictionary''. Ret ...
" seat held by the party of government, both often typical of mortgage belt seats. During this time, it was usually marginal, with neither party winning more than 54 percent of the two-party vote.
Later years
Labor's
Tony Zappia
Antonio Zappia (born 13 June 1952) is an Australian politician and former powerlifting champion. He has been an Australian Labor Party member for the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives seat of Division of Makin, Makin ...
won the seat at the
2007 election with a fairly safe 57.7 percent two-party vote against
Liberal
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candidate
Bob Day
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from an 8.6 percent two-party swing as Labor won government, the largest two-party vote and swing of any party in Makin's history at the time. Zappia won enough primary votes to take the seat on the first count, the first time a candidate won a majority of the primary vote in Makin. At the
2010 election, Zappia technically made it a safe Labor seat with a 62.2 percent two-party vote, again the strongest result for any party in Makin's history. Even though
Mawson Lakes
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was added to Makin in a redistribution, Zappia held the seat at the
2013 election with a reduced marginal 55.1 percent two-party vote even as Labor lost government, becoming the first opposition member in Makin's history. He consolidated his hold on the seat at the
2016 election with a 59.5 percent two-party vote.
Bellwether seat
ABC
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psephologist Antony Green
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Early years and background
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in northern England, Gree ...
listed Makin as one of eleven which he classed as "
bellwether
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" electorates in his 2016 election guide. Notably, Makin was the only bellwether located outside of New South Wales and Queensland.
The Bellwether Contests: Antony Green ABC
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Members
Election results
See also
* 2016 Australian federal election
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* Results of the Australian federal election, 2016 (South Australia)
References
ABC profile for Makin: 2016
Poll Bludger profile for Makin: 2016
Notes
External links
SA boundary map, 1984: Atlas SA
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Electoral divisions of Australia
Constituencies established in 1984
1984 establishments in Australia