ALP 10.8%
Incumbent MP
Tony Zappia, since 2007.
Geography
Northeastern suburbs of Adelaide. Makin covers most of Tea Tree Gully council area as well as parts of Salisbury council area east of Main North Road and a small part of Port Adelaide Enfield council area. Major suburbs include Para Hills, Walkley Heights, Modbury, Redwood Park, Tea Tree Gully, Golden Grove, Greenwith, Salisbury East and Salisbury Heights.
History
Makin was created at the 1984 election as part of the expansion of the House of Representatives. The seat was won by the party of government at every election until 2013, when Labor held on against the national trend.
The seat was first won by ALP candidate Peter Duncan, a state MP who had served as a state minister from 1975 until the defeat of the Corcoran government in 1979. Duncan served as a federal minister from the 1987 election until the 1990 election, when he was demoted to a Parliamentary Secretary position which he held until the defeat of the Keating government in 1996.
Duncan lost Makin to Liberal candidate Trish Draper at the 1996 election. Draper held Makin for the entirety of the Howard government, although she never moved off the backbench. Her margin was cut to less than 1% at the 2004 election, and she retired before the 2007 election.
At the 2007 election the ALP’s Tony Zappia won Makin with a swing of over 8%. He has been re-elected five times.
Assessment
Makin is now a reasonably safe Labor seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Tony Zappia | Labor | 49,843 | 46.3 | -2.1 |
| Alan Howard-Jones | Liberal | 33,840 | 31.4 | -1.4 |
| Emma Mustaca | Greens | 12,317 | 11.4 | +2.8 |
| Rajan Vaid | One Nation | 5,097 | 4.7 | +4.7 |
| Kimberley Drozdoff | United Australia | 4,638 | 4.3 | -2.1 |
| Abram Lazootin | Federation Party | 1,907 | 1.8 | +1.8 |
| Informal | 4,639 | 4.1 | -0.4 |
2022 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Tony Zappia | Labor | 65,444 | 60.8 | +1.1 |
| Alan Howard-Jones | Liberal | 42,198 | 39.2 | -1.1 |
Booths have been divided into three parts: north-east, south-east and west.
The ALP won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 56.4% in the north-east to 65.7% in the west.
The Greens came third, with a primary vote ranging from 11.6% in the west to 14.9% in the south-east.
| Voter group | GRN prim | ALP 2PP | Total votes | % of votes |
| West | 11.6 | 65.7 | 26,939 | 25.0 |
| South-East | 14.9 | 59.6 | 15,053 | 14.0 |
| North-East | 12.3 | 56.4 | 12,458 | 11.6 |
| Pre-poll | 10.0 | 59.8 | 30,932 | 28.7 |
| Other votes | 10.4 | 59.5 | 22,260 | 20.7 |
Election results in Makin at the 2022 federal election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal Party and the Greens.
Safe ALP. Tony is the definition of a local MP. He will retire in 2028 as his inability to obtain a Ministry unlike his other 07 SA ALP class will define him.
Labor retain. If the Liberals couldn’t gain this in the 2013 landslide there’s no way they’ll get this in 2025 despite what Dutton says.
Tony Zappia is very popular around here and he’s got a broad coalition of voters. Not just the rusted on Labor voters, but also progressive voters (he’s from Labor left) and he’s also got a decent voting base coming from the right. I know a few people in Church who usually would vote conservative but said they’ll vote Labor because of Zappia. It’s his until he retires.
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