Taylor is a single-member

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for the

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. This district is named after Doris Irene Taylor

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, a leading force in the founding of

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, and

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activist. Taylor is a 246.2 km2 semi-urban electorate in

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's outer northern suburbs and market gardens on the Adelaide Northern plains. A large portion of the district lives in the western half of the

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and it is regarded as a safe Labor seat. It now includes the suburbs and townships of

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, Angle Vale, Bolivar, Buckland Park,

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, Edinburgh North,

Elizabeth North Elizabeth North is a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Playford. It is sandwiched between Main North Road to the east and the Gawler railway line to its west immediately north of Elizabeth and south of Smithfield. It ...

, Eyre, Macdonald Park, Munno Para West, Penfield, Penfield Gardens, Riverlea Park, Smithfield, Smithfield Plains, St Kilda,

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, and Waterloo Corner.

History

Taylor was created for the 1993 state election between the northern metropolitan seat of Ramsay and rural Goyder, and was won by the defeated Labor

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. He resigned in 1994, triggering a Taylor by-election which saw

Trish White Patricia Lynne White (born 7 September 1964) is a company director and former Australian politician, who represented Taylor in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Labor Party. She first won the seat at a state by-election held on 5 ...

retain the seat for Labor. Following the redistribution of 2003 the northern boundary of the district was Light River and it sketched from the Gulf of St Vincent in the west to Lewiston and Reeves Plains in the North East, Curtis Road in the

to the East, to the outer northern suburbs of Burton, Direk and parts of Paralowie and

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to the South. Following the 2016 Boundary redistribution a major change occurred with approximately 40% of the electors of Taylor from the suburbs of Paralowie and Salisbury North in the City of Salisbury being moved to

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and being replaced by Elizabeth North which was added from the abolished district of

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and

, Smithfield, Smithfield Plains from the abolished district of Electoral district of Napier, and Township of Angle Vale from

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all from the City of Playford. The previous member for Napier Jon Gee replaced the retiring member of Taylor Leesa Vlahos at the 2018 Election. Due to being above the 10% quota threshold the 2020 Boundary redistribution the Gawler River has again become the northern boundary with Port Gawler, Middle Beach and

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within the Adelaide Plains Council moving to a redrawn Electoral district of Frome and the southern boundary also changing with the suburbs of Burton, Direk and remaining portion of Salibury North from the City of Salisbury moving to the

. A portion of Munno Para West within the City of Playford from the

was added.

Members for Taylor

Election results

Notes

References

ECSA profile for Taylor: 2018

ABC profile for Taylor: 2018

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor 1993 establishments in Australia Electoral districts of South Australia