Waite
South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Waite highlighted
Electoral district of Waite (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
StateSouth Australia
Created1993
MPCatherine Hutchesson
PartyLabor
NamesakePeter Waite
Electors27,160 (2018)
Area75.4 km2 (29.1 sq mi)
DemographicMetropolitan
Coordinates34°59′17″S 138°37′31″E / 34.98806°S 138.62528°E / -34.98806; 138.62528
Electorates around Waite:
Unley Unley Bragg
Elder Waite Heysen
Davenport Davenport Heysen
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Waite is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after Peter Waite, a 19th century entrepreneur and philanthropist, it covers 75.4 km² of suburbs and foothills in Adelaide's inner south-east, taking in the suburbs of Belair, Blackwood, Brown Hill Creek, Coromandel East, Coromandel Valley, Crafers West, Craigburn Farm, Eden Hills, Glenalta, Hawthorndene, Kingswood, Lynton, Mitcham, Netherby, Springfield, Torrens Park, Urrbrae as well as part of Upper Sturt.

Waite was created in the 1991 electoral distribution as a comfortably safe Liberal seat, replacing the abolished district of Mitcham, the only single-member lower house seat anywhere throughout Australia to be won by the Democrats. At the 1993 election, Mitcham's last member, Liberal deputy leader Stephen Baker, easily retained it amid that year's decisive Liberal victory. Baker served as Treasurer from 1993 to 1997. Upon his retirement at the 1997 election, he was succeeded by Martin Hamilton-Smith, who represented the seat as a member of the Liberal Party for 17 years holding several ministries and shadow ministries, and for a period was Leader of the Opposition. Two months after the 2014 election, Hamilton-Smith became an independent and held several ministries in the Weatherill Labor government. He retired at the 2018 election and was succeeded by Sam Duluk, the former Liberal member for Davenport. Sam Duluk resigned from the Liberal Party to sit as an independent in 2020 after allegations of inappropriate behaviour.[2] Duluk was defeated at the 2022 election by Catherine Hutchesson who won the seat for Labor for the first time in its history.

Members for Waite

Member Party Term
  Stephen Baker Liberal 1993–1997
  Martin Hamilton-Smith Liberal 1997–2014
  Independent 2014–2018
  Sam Duluk Liberal 2018–2020
  Independent 2020–2022
  Catherine Hutchesson Labor 2022–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 South Australian state election (House of Assembly) § Waite.[edit]
2022 South Australian state election: Waite
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Catherine Hutchesson 6,698 26.6 +2.5
Liberal Alexander Hyde 6,509 25.8 −18.7
Independent Sam Duluk 4,949 19.7 +19.7
Independent Heather Holmes-Ross 3,665 14.6 +14.6
Greens Brendan White 2,872 11.4 +0.9
Animal Justice Ben Freeling 482 1.9 +1.9
Total formal votes 25,175 97.6
Informal votes 607 2.4
Turnout 25,782 92.6
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Catherine Hutchesson 13,597 54.0 +11.4
Liberal Alexander Hyde 11,578 46.0 −11.4
Labor gain from Liberal Swing+11.4

Notes

  1. ↑ Electoral District of Waite (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Liberal MP Sam Duluk banished from party and Parliament over alleged assault case". ABC News. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

References

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