Electoral district of Chaffey

Chaffey; South Australia—House of Assembly
	Electoral district of Chaffey (green) in South Australia
State	South Australia
Created	1938
MP	Tim Whetstone
Party	Liberal Party of Australia (SA)
Namesake	George Chaffey and William Chaffey
Electors	23,495 (2018)
Area	24,265.88 km2 (9,369.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural
Coordinates	34°32′16″S 140°16′14″E
	Electorates around Chaffey:
Footnotes
	Electoral District map[1]

Chaffey, created in 1936, is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the Riverland region of South Australia including the towns of Renmark, Berri, Barmera, Loxton and Waikerie. The seat is named after brothers George and William Chaffey who established the irrigation area along the Murray River from 1886.

Chaffey spent most of the Playmander era in the hands of independent William MacGillivray. The Liberal and Country League did not win it until 1956. Chaffey was won three times by Labor's Reg Curren as their most marginal electorate on a two-party-preferred basis – in 1962 on 50.1%, 1965 on 50.7% and 1970 on 50.2%. Curren's 1965 victory helped put Labor in government in 1965 after 33 years in opposition, while his loss to the LCL's Peter Arnold was one of two Labor losses that returned the LCL to government in 1968. Curren reclaimed it for Labor during his party's 1970 landslide victory after the end of the Playmander, only to lose it back to Arnold in 1973. At the 1975 election, Arnold picked up a massive 13.5 percent swing, and Labor has never come close to winning it since. Chaffey was one of several rural electorates where Labor suffered large swings in 1975; Labor suffered a swing of 15.5 percent in Mount Gambier and a 16.4 percent in Millicent.

Chaffey remained in the hands of the LCL and its successor, the Liberal Party, until 1997 when Karlene Maywald narrowly won it for the SA Nationals. Maywald picked up a large swing in 2002, boosting her two-candidate preferred vote to 64 percent. She held the electorate without serious difficulty until she was defeated in 2010 by Liberal Tim Whetstone, who still holds the seat.

Members for Chaffey

	Party	Term
William MacGillivray	Independent	1938–1956
Harold King	Liberal and Country	1956–1962
Reg Curren	Labor	1962–1968
Peter Arnold	Liberal and Country	1968–1970
Reg Curren	Labor	1970–1973
Peter Arnold	Liberal and Country	1973–1974
Peter Arnold	Liberal	1974–1993
Kent Andrew	Liberal	1993–1997
Karlene Maywald	Nationals SA	1997–2010
Tim Whetstone	Liberal	2010–present

Election results

2018 South Australian state election: Chaffey[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Tim Whetstone	9,489	46.1	−17.6
	SA-Best	Michelle Campbell	5,136	24.9	+24.9
	Labor	Sim Singh-Malhi	3,972	19.3	+1.7
	Conservatives	Trevor Scott	1,366	6.6	−6.6
	Greens	Philip Pointer	404	2.0	−3.6
	Dignity	Richard Challis	229	1.1	+1.1
Total formal votes			20,596	95.7	−0.9
Informal votes			935	4.3	+0.9
Turnout			21,531	91.6	−1.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Tim Whetstone	13,857	67.3	−6.7
	Labor	Sim Singh-Malhi	6,739	32.7	+6.7
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Liberal	Tim Whetstone	12,059	58.6	−15.4
	SA-Best	Michelle Campbell	8,537	41.5	+41.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Notes

Electoral District of Chaffey (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
State Election Results - District Results for Chaffey, ECSA.

References

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[1] Electoral District of Chaffey (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.

[2] State Election Results - District Results for Chaffey, ECSA.