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Liberal retain
Christopher Pyne
+4.2% ALP
92.3% Counted. Updated 29/7/16, 8:53pm
Preference Count
LIB Liberal Christopher Pyne
ALP Labor Matt Loader
First Preference
NXT Xenophon Team Matthew Wright
GRN Green Rebecca Galdies
OTH Others -
GRN Greens Rebecca Galdies
FFP Family First Craig Bowyer
AJP Animal Justice Geoff Russell
IND Independent Neil Aitchison
PUP Palmer United -
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Stirling | Swan
Sturt
Adelaide Inner Eastern Suburbs
Safe Liberal 10.1%
Christopher Pyne (LIB) since 1993.
Sturt consists of a string of Adelaide's eastern suburbs stretched in a north-south line between Mt Barker Road and Grand Junction Road between Portrush and Fullarton Roads and the Adelaide Hills. It includes the suburbs of Glen Osmond, Burnside, Magill, Felixstow, Campbelltown, Klemzig, Gilles Plains, Rostrevor, Newton, Paradise, Athelstone and Highbury. Covers 85 sq.km. (Map)
This electorate was created in 1949 and named after Charles Sturt, the early explorer of the Murray River. He proved that all the rivers of western NSW eventually flowed into the Murray River, and was also the first white explorer to navigate the Murray River to its mouth.
Since its creation, Sturt has only spent two terms in Labor hands, the first 1954-55 and the second 1969-72. Former Liberal members include Sir Keith Wilson (1949-54, 1955-66) and his son Ian (1966-69, 1972-93), affectionately known by the nickname 'Curly'. The younger Wilson was defeated for pre-selection by the youthful and ambitious Christopher Pyne in 1993.
Pyne held Sturt comfortably until Labor launched vigorous campaigns him at the 2007 and 2010 elections. At both elections the Liberal Party engaged in 'sandbagging', minimising the swing with intensive campaigns in marginal Boothby and Sturt, resulting in Labor blowouts in other Adelaide seats such as Kingston, Makin and Wakefield. The swings to Labor in Sturt were cancelled out by a 6.5% swing back to the Liberal Party in 2013.
Winning Party
1972 LIB
Coloured tab indicates seat won by a party forming government
A poll conducted in May for GetUp!, the results of which were given to The Advertiser, reported first preference votes of Liberal 41%, Xenophon Team 21%, Labor 20% and the Greens 8%.
A Newspoll published in The Advertiser on 18 June reported first preferences of Liberal 50%, Labor 17%, Nic Xenophon Team 21%, Greens 6% and Others 6%, resolving to Liberal 58% Labor 42% based on past preference flows.
2016 Ballot Paper (7 Candidates)
WRIGHT Matthew Nick Xenophon Team
GALDIES Rebecca The Greens
RUSSELL Geoff Animal Justice Party
BOWYER Craig Family First
LOADER Matt Australian Labor Party
PYNE Christopher Liberal
AITCHISON Neil Independent
Nick Xenophon Team
An emergency room physician at Flinders Medical Centre, Wright has worked on various humanitarian projects in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and East Timor. He studied Medicine at the University of Adelaide.
Rebecca Galdies
Galdies ran as a Greens candidate in 2014 for the SA state seat of Cheltenham. She has a Diploma of Government, Contract Management.
Geoff Russell
Animal Justice Party
Russell has degrees in philosophy and mathematics and published a critique in 2009 of the CSIRO Total Wellbeing diet; 'CSIRO Perfidy'. His 2014 ebook 'GreenJacked!' was endorsed by Nobel Prize Winner Peter Doherty. In addition to the two books, he has had articles published in The Monthly, Australasian Science, BraveNewClimate.com and New Matilda. Russell has been actively involved in animal rights movement for three decades and has served as the animal welfare representative on two animal experimentation ethic committees.
Craig Bowyer
Bowyer describes himself as a highly motivated teaching andn learning co-ordinator and mentor in the arts and technology. He is also a practising property consultant, is married with 2 children and lives in Dernancourt. He is also a keen tennis player and AFL amateur league umpire and speaks four languages.
Matt Loader
Australian Labor Party
Loader attended Pulteney Grammar School and has a Bachelor of Law from Bond University and a Bachelor of Arts (European Studies) from the University of Adelaide. He has been a member of the Labor Party from 26 years, since he was 14, and has been a union delegate, a community volunteer, a local councillor and a leader in the South Australia same-sex movment, having played a pivotal role in the push for LGBTIQ rights in South Australia.
Aged 48, Pyne's small build, freckled face and slightly thin voice make him appear much younger in the House of Representatives. Pyne caused a stir in 1992 by winning pre-selection ahead of long time Liberal MP and party stalwart Ian 'Curly' Wilson. A former President of the South Australian Young Liberals and member of the Liberal Party State Executive, Pyne had previously been the Liberal Candidate in John Bannon's seat of Ross Smith at the 1989 state election. Pyne struggled for advancement during the years of the Howard government, generally being stymied by his factional opponents in the South Australian Liberal Party. He was finally appointed as a Parliamentary Secretary in October 2003, finally achieving a ministerial position when appointed Assistant Minister for Health and Ageing in January 2007. Two months later he became Minister for Ageing, appointed to the position when Senator Santoro left the ministry. In 2009 Pyne was surprisingly appointed Leader of Opposition Business by Malcolm Turnbull in preference to Tony Abbott, and retained the position when Abbott became Liberal Party Leader. He was Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training for the five years leading up to the 2013 election, and became Minister for Education following the election of the Coalition Government. Following Turnbull's successful spill against Abbott, Pyne was moved to the portfolios of Industry, Innovation and Science.
Neil Aitchison
'So the last shall be first, and the first last'. Matthew 20:16, Holy Bible.
2013 Result
Christopher Pyne LIB 49,429 54.4 +6.2
Kylie Barnes FFP 3,565 3.9 +0.2
Rick Sarre ALP 26,258 28.9 -7.1
Gabriella Scali PUP 2,713 3.0 +3.0
Anne Walker GRN 8,902 9.8 -0.3
.... OTH 0 0.0 -2.0
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