2001 Profile of the division of Wakefield

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State:

South Australia

Name Derivation:

Named after Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), whose plan for systematic colonisation formed the basis of settlement in South Australia and Western Australia.

Area and Location Description:

It covers an area of approximately 31 841 sq km from Stenhouse Bay on the Yorke Peninsula to Renmark in the east, near the New South Wales border.

The towns of Angaston, Balaklava, Barmera, Berri, Gawler, Gumeracha, Kadina, Kapunda, Loxton, Minlaton, Moonta, Morgan, Mount Pleasant, Nurioopta, Renmark, Tanunda, Waikerie, Wallaroo, and Yorketown are in this division.

Products/Industries of the area:

Wakefield has many diversified rural industries. The most important are mixed cereals and sheep farming, viticulture in the Barossa Valley and Riverland, and irrigated orcharding in the Riverland.

First Proclaimed

1903

Members

Neil Andrew (LP) 1983–

G Giles (LP) 1977–83

C R Kelly (LP) 1958–77

P A M McBride (LP) 1946–58

A E Smith (ALP) 1943–46

J G Duncan-Hughes (UAP) 1940–43

S McHugh (ALP) 1938–40

C A S Hawker (NAT/UAP) 1929–38

M Collins (CP) 1928–29

R W Foster (ANTI-SOC/LIB/NAT) 1909–28

(Sir) F W Holder (PROT/ANTI-SOC) 1903–09

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Demographic Rating

Rural

3 October 1998 Election	6 November 1999 Referendum	10 November 2001 Election
Enrolment: 88 650 Informal Vote: 4.92% Turnout: 95.87% Seat Status: Safe Liberal Two Party Preferred: ALP: 33.71% LP: 66.29%	Enrolment: 85 232 Informal Vote: Republic Question 0.89% Preamble Question 1.09% Turnout: Republic Question 96.72% Preamble Question 96.75%	Enrolment: 86 378 Informal Vote: 5.48% Turnout: 96.3% Seat Status: Safe Liberal Two Party Preferred: ALP: 35.44% LP: 64.56%