Enfield is a single-member electoral district for the

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. Named after the suburb of the same name, it is a suburban electorate in

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's inner north, taking in the suburbs of Blair Athol, Broadview, Clearview,

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, Kilburn, Lightsview, Northgate, and Sefton Park; and parts of

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and Prospect. The seat was vacant pending a by-election in February 2019—Labor MP

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resigned from parliament in December 2018, following Labor's defeat at the 2018 South Australian state election in March. Labor's

Andrea Michaels Andrea Michaels (born 24 May 1975) is an Australian politician representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Enfield for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party since the 2019 Enfield by-election. Michaels has ...

was elected as Rau's successor on 9 February after defeating Independent candidate Gary Johanson in the by-election. Enfield was first created to replace the abolished

electoral district of Prospect Prospect is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. An urban electorate in western Sydney, it is centred on the suburb of Prospect from which it takes its name. It also includes the suburb ...

for the 1956 election. It was abolished for the 1970 election, substantially replaced by the new electorate of Ross Smith. Enfield was recreated for the 2002 election as a safe

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electorate, replacing the abolished electorate of Ross Smith, and was won by Labor candidate

. Rau had defeated Ralph Clarke, the former member for Ross Smith, in a Labor preselection ballot. Clarke subsequently contested the election as an independent, but came third, falling 800 votes short of the

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candidate. At the 2006 election, Clarke decided to contest a

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seat, for which he had very little chance of success. Without competition from Clarke, Rau extended his margin, easily retaining the electorate for Labor. In the 2016 redistribution by the electoral districts boundaries commission, the districts southern suburbs of

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and Manningham were reassigned to the neighbouring districts of

and Torrens. The districts western suburbs of Regency Park, Ferryden Park, Angle Park and

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were reassigned to the adjacent district of

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. The northeastern boundary was extended to include the suburbs of Northgate, Lightsview and part of

within Enfield district, and the southwestern boundary was shifted south slightly to include part of Prospect. In both of its incarnations, Enfield has been a comfortably-safe Labor seat.

Members for Enfield

Election results

Notes

References

ECSA profile for Enfield: 2018

ABC profile for Enfield: 2018

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