Electoral district of Waite

Waite; South Australia—House of Assembly
	Electoral district of Waite (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1993
MP	Sam Duluk
Party	Independent
Namesake	Peter Waite
Electors	27,160 (2018)
Area	75.4 km2 (29.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates	34°59′17″S 138°37′31″E
	Electorates around Waite:
Footnotes
	Electoral District map[1]

Waite is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after Peter Waite, a 19th century entrepreneur and philanthropist, it covers 75.4 km² of suburbs and foothills in Adelaide's inner south-east, taking in the suburbs of Belair, Blackwood, Brown Hill Creek, Coromandel East, Coromandel Valley, Crafers West, Craigburn Farm, Eden Hills, Glenalta, Hawthorndene, Kingswood, Lynton, Mitcham, Netherby, Springfield, Torrens Park, Urrbrae as well as part of Upper Sturt.

Waite was created in the 1991 electoral distribution as a comfortably safe Liberal seat, replacing the abolished district of Mitcham, the only single-member lower house seat anywhere throughout Australia to be won by the Democrats. Waite was first won at the 1993 election by Liberal deputy leader Stephen Baker, who served as Treasurer from 1993 to 1997. Upon his retirement at the 1997 election, he was succeeded by Liberal Martin Hamilton-Smith, who represented the seat as a member of the Liberal Party for 17 years holding several ministries and shadow ministries, and for a period was Leader of the Opposition. Two months after the 2014 election, Hamilton-Smith became an independent and held several ministries in the Weatherill Labor government. He retired at the 2018 election and was succeeded by Sam Duluk, the former Liberal member for Davenport.

Members for Waite

	Party	Term
Stephen Baker	Liberal	1993–1997
Martin Hamilton-Smith	Liberal	1997–2014
Martin Hamilton-Smith	Independent	2014–2018
Sam Duluk	Liberal	2018–2020
Sam Duluk	Independent	2020–present

Election results

2018 South Australian state election: Waite[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Sam Duluk	11,115	45.2	−8.0
	Labor	Cathy Hutchesson	5,783	23.5	−2.6
	SA-Best	Graham Davies	3,870	15.7	+15.7
	Greens	Brendan White	2,607	10.6	−5.0
	Conservatives	John Duncan	677	2.8	−1.0
	Dignity	Cathi Tucker	533	2.2	+0.9
Total formal votes			24,585	97.6	−0.3
Informal votes			596	2.4	+0.3
Turnout			25,181	92.7	+2.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Sam Duluk	14,211	57.8	−2.3
	Labor	Cathy Hutchesson	10,374	42.2	+2.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	−2.3

Notes

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

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References

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

[2] State Election Results – District Results for Waite, ECSA.