Electoral district of Gibson

Gibson is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was created by the redistribution conducted in 2016, and was contested for the first time at the 2018 state election.[2]^{:pages 45–46}

Gibson South Australia—House of Assembly
2018 boundaries shown in green in Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	2018
MP	Corey Wingard
Party	Liberal Party of Australia
Namesake	Gladys Ruth Gibson CBE (1901–1972)
Electors	25,808 (2018)
Area	15.1 km^2 (5.8 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	35.01°S 138.53°E
Electorates around Gibson: Gulf St Vincent Morphett Badcoe Gulf St Vincent Gibson Elder Gulf St Vincent Black Davenport
Footnotes
Electoral District map[1]

Gibson lies southwest of the Adelaide city centre and includes the suburbs of Brighton, Dover Gardens, Hove, Marion, North Brighton, Oaklands Park, Seacombe Gardens, South Brighton, Sturt, Warradale and the southern portion of Somerton Park.[3] At its creation, Gibson was projected to be notionally held by the Liberal Party with a swing of 3.2% required to lose it.[2]^{:Appendix 12} The 2018 creation of Gibson replaced the electoral district of Bright, although only slightly over 9,000 electors (of about 25,000) from Bright remained in Gibson after the redistribution. Other electors came from Elder, Mitchell and Morphett.[2]^{:Appendix 9}

Corey Wingard, the member for Mitchell before the 2018 election, successfully contested Gibson;[4] while David Speirs, the member for Bright, successfully contested Black;[5] both were members of the Liberal Party.[6]

Gibson is named after Gladys Gibson CBE (1901–1972), who was a teacher and women's activist in the middle of the twentieth century.[4]

Members for Gibson

Member		Party	Term
	Corey Wingard	Liberal	2018–present

Election results

2018 South Australian state election: Gibson[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Corey Wingard	10,965	48.1	+2.4
	Labor	Matthew Carey	5,843	25.6	−9.1
	SA-Best	Kris Hanna	4,107	18.0	+18.0
	Greens	Gwydion Rozitisolds	1,326	5.8	−3.0
	Dignity	Garry Connor	570	2.5	+1.5
Total formal votes			22,811	96.8	−0.6
Informal votes			762	3.2	+0.6
Turnout			23,573	91.3	+3.1
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Corey Wingard	13,537	59.3	+5.6
	Labor	Matthew Carey	9,274	40.7	−5.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	+5.6

Notes

1. Electoral District of Gibson (Map). Electoral Commission of South Australia. 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
2. "Final Redistribution Report". South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
3. Gibson (Map). South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission. 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
4. "Electorate: Gibson". SA Election 2018. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
5. "Electorate: Black". SA Election 2018. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
6. Richardson, Tom (24 February 2017). "Edwards bows out as Libs gear up for battle". InDaily. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
7. State Election Results - District Results for Gibson, ECSA.

References

• ECSA profile for Gibson: 2018
• ABC profile for Gibson: 2018
• Poll Bludger profile for Gibson: 2018