Wright – SA 2022

ALP 3.1%

Incumbent MP
Blair Boyer, since 2018.

• Geography
• Redistribution
• History
• Candidates
• Assessment
• 2018 result
• Booth breakdown
• Results maps

Geography
Northern Adelaide. Wright covers parts of Salisbury and Tea Tree Gully council areas, including the suburbs of Salisbury East, Surrey Downs, Wynn Vale and part of Modbury North.

Redistribution
Wright shifted south, losing Brahma Lodge and Salisbury South to Ramsay, and gaining part of Modbury North from Florey. These changes reduced the Labor margin from 3.5% to 3.1%.

History
The electorate of Wright has existed since the 1993 election. The seat was won by the Liberal Party at the 1993 landslide election but has been won by Labor at every other election.

The seat was created as a notionally safe Labor seat, but at the 1993 election a landslide swept in the Liberal Party’s Scott Ashenden.

In 1997, Ashenden lost to the ALP’s Jennifer Rankine. Rankine was re-elected four times, and retired in 2018.

Labor’s Blair Boyer won Wright in 2018.

Candidates

• Alexandra McGee (Greens)
• Blair Boyer (Labor)
• Kym Nancarrow (Family First)
• Graham Reynolds (Liberal)

Assessment
Wright is a marginal Labor seat. If the government is on track to increase their majority this seat would be a key target.

2018 result

2018 two-party-preferred result

Booth breakdown

Booths in Light have been divided into three areas: central, north and east.

Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 52.3% in the east to 54.6% in the north.

SA-Best came third, with a primary vote ranging from 14.7% in the centre to 19.1% in the east.

Election results in Wright at the 2018 South Australian state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, the Liberal Party and SA-Best.

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