Profile of the electoral division of Boothby (SA)
Updated: 19 November 2019
- State/Territory:
- South Australia
- Date this name and boundary was gazetted:
- 20 July 2018
- First election this name was used at:
- 1903 federal election
- First election this boundary was used at:
- 2019 federal election
- Maps and data
- A4 map of the electoral division of Boothby (2018) [PDF 779KB]
Map of the Division of Boothby (2018) [PDF 1.84MB]
Download GIS data
- Name Derivation:
- Named in honour of William Robinson Boothby CMG, 1829–1903. Boothby introduced many electoral innovations in South Australia and from 1856 to 1903 superintended every State parliamentary election and drafted every Electoral Act in South Austalia. Boothby was State Returning Officer for the first House of Representatives election in South Australia in 1901 and, prior to his death, completed the 1903 redistribution of federal electoral divisions in South Australia.
- Area
- 115 sq km
- Location description
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The Division of Boothby consists of:
- City of Holdfast Bay,
- part of the City of Marion,
- part of the City of Mitcham, and
- part of the City of Unley
- Demographic Rating:
- Outer Metropolitan – situated in capital cities and containing large areas of recent suburban expansion
- Current member details:
- Please refer to the Parliament of Australia website
- Previous members:
- Former members for an electoral division of this name can be found by searching ‘Electoral divisions’ or ‘Members of the House of Representatives since 1901’ in the historical information section of the Parliamentary Handbook
- AEC Divisional Office:
- Divisional Office contact details
- Further information:
- For supporting information, see Party codes, demographic ratings and seat status.