Adam Carr's Election Archive
Commonwealth of Australia
Electoral Divisions of the House of Representatives
Division of Wakefield, South Australia
The Division of Wakefield was created in 1903 and abolished in 2019, when it was renamed Spence. It was named from Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862), organiser of British settlement in South Australia.
REDISTRIBUTIONS
1903: Balaklava, Kadina, Kooringa, Moonta
1922: Balaklava, Kapunda, Renmark, Wallaroo
1934: Angaston, Gawler, Kapunda, Renmark
1949: Gawler, Kapunda, Maitland, Wallaroo
1955: Highbury, Maitland, Peterborough, Wallaroo
1969: Balaklava, Gawler, Maitland, Wallaroo
1977: Angaston, Gawler, Renmark, Wallaroo
1984: Clare, Gawler, Kadina, Yorketown
1993: Gawler, Kadina, Renmark, Yorketown
2001: Gawler, Kadina, Renmark, Yorketown
2004: Clare, Elizabeth, Gawler, Kapunda
2013: Craigmore, Elizabeth, Evanston, Gawler
TWO-PARTY MAJORITIES
1903: Independent unopposed
1906: Independent 13.8
1909b: Liberal 04.5
1910: Liberal 00.8
1913: Liberal 03.7
1914: Liberal 02.4
1917: Nationalist 06.2
1919: Nationalist 08.4
1922: Nationalist 05.3
1925: Nationalist 14.8
1928: Country Party 09.6 *
1929: Nationalist 06.9
1931: United Australia 15.3 **
1934: United Australia 24.0
1937: United Australia 13.4
1938b: Labor 06.7
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1940: United Australia 03.4
1943: Labor 01.2
1946: Liberal 02.7
1949: Liberal 11.4
1951: Liberal 10.1
1954: Liberal 09.7
1955: Liberal 14.9
1958: Liberal 15.1
1961: Liberal 12.3
1963: Liberal 11.1
1966: Liberal 19.5
1969: Liberal 12.0
1972: Liberal 15.9
1974: Liberal 17.5
1975: Liberal 22.0
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1977: Liberal 16.0
1980: Liberal 16.2
1983: Liberal 13.7
1984: Liberal 12.9
1987: Liberal 13.7
1990: Liberal 12.9
1993: Liberal 17.0
1996: Liberal 20.0
1998: Liberal 16.3
2001: Liberal 14.7
2004: Liberal 00.7
2007: Labor 06.6
2010: Labor 12.0
2013: Labor 03.4
2016: Labor 10.9
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* Majority over Nationalist
** Majority over independent
ENROLMENTS
ELECTION RESULTS 1903-2016
Click here to see full results for Wakefield at every election from 1903 to 2016.
MEMBERS FOR WAKEFIELD
Hon Sir Frederick Holder (Ind) 1903-09
Richard Foster (Lib, Nat, Lib, Nat) 1909-28
Maurice Collins (CP) 1928-29
Hon Charles Hawker (Nat, UAP) 1929-38
Sydney McHugh (ALP) 1938b-40
John Duncan-Hughes (UAP) 1940-43
Albert Smith (ALP) 1943-46
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Hon Sir Philip McBride (Lib) 1946-58
Hon Bert Kelly (Lib) 1958-77
Geoffrey Giles (Lib) 1977-83
Hon Neil Andrew (Lib) 1983-2004
David Fawcett (Lib) 2004-07
Nick Champion (ALP) 2007-16
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| Hon Sir Frederick Holder (Ind) 1903-09 |
Richard Foster (Lib, Nat, Lib, Nat) 1909-28 |
Maurice Collins (CP) 1928-29 |
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| Hon Charles Hawker (Nat, UAP) 1929-38 |
Sydney McHugh (ALP) 1938-40 |
John Duncan-Hughes (UAP) 1940-43 |
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| Albert Smith (ALP) 1943-46 |
Hon Sir Philip McBride (Lib) 1946-58 |
Hon Bert Kelly (Lib) 1958-77 |
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| Geoffrey Giles (Lib) 1977-83 |
Hon Neil Andrew (Lib) 1983-2004 |
David Fawcett (Lib) 2004-07 |
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| Nick Champion (ALP) 2007-19 |
BOUNDARIES
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