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Wakefield Australian House of Representatives Division
Created:	1903
MP:	Nick Champion
Party:	Labor
Namesake:	Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Electors:	95,722
Area:	6,155 km² (2,376 sq mi)
Demographic:	Rural

The Division of Wakefield is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of South Australia. It is located north of Adelaide, incorporating the outer northern suburbs of Salisbury and Elizabeth, and extending north as far as Clare. It covers the east coast of the Gulf Saint Vincent north of Adelaide, all the way to Port Wakefield. It also includes the towns of Balaklava, Tarlee, Kapunda and Gawler.

The Division was named after Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who promoted colonisation as a tool for social engineering, plans which formed the basis for settlements in South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It was proclaimed at the redistribution of 2 October 1903, when South Australia was first broken up into Divisions. It was first contested at the 1903 Federal election. It was first held by Hon Sir Frederick Holder, the first Speaker of the House, who was also twice the Premier of South Australia. It has previously been held by Neil Andrew, a former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.

Before the redistribution for the 2004 election, Wakefield was predominantly rural with a large Liberal margin, including the Barossa Valley area, but not the Salisbury, Elizabeth and Smithfield areas. The northern suburbs were added to Wakefield when the Division of Bonython was abolished by the redistribution. As a result, the hybrid urban-rural seat became marginal.

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	Party	Term
Frederick Holder	Independent	1903–1909
Richard Foster	Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1916
	Nationalist	1916–1922
	Liberal Union	1922–1925
	Nationalist	1925–1928
Maurice Collins	Country	1928–1929
Charles Hawker	Nationalist	1929–1931
Charles Hawker	United Australia	1931–1938
Sydney McHugh	Labor	1938–1940
John Duncan-Hughes	United Australia	1940–1943
Albert Smith	Labor	1943–1946
Philip McBride	Liberal	1946–1951
	Liberal & Country	1951–1954
	Liberal	1954–1958
Bert Kelly	Liberal	1958–1977
Geoffrey Giles	Liberal	1977–1983
Neil Andrew	Liberal	1983–2004
David Fawcett	Liberal	2004–2007
Nick Champion	Labor	2007–present

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Australian federal election, 2007: Wakefield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Nick Champion	42,249	48.65	+6.28
	Liberal	David Fawcett	33,600	38.69	-5.12
	Family First	Bruce Nairn	4,483	5.16	-0.27
	Greens	Terry Allen	3,589	4.13	-0.02
	Democrats	Felicity Martin	1,016	1.17	-0.50
	One Nation	Peter Fitzpatrick	832	0.96	-1.60
	What Women Want	Pauline Edmunds	793	0.91	+0.91
	Liberal Democratic	Martin Walsh	284	0.33	+0.33
Total formal votes			86,846	95.34	+1.82
Informal votes			4,246	4.66	-1.82
Turnout			91,092	95.16	+0.18
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Nick Champion	49,142	56.59	+7.26
	Liberal	David Fawcett	37,704	43.41	-7.26
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+7.26

Australian federal election, 2004: Wakefield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Fawcett	35,320	43.81	+4.73
	Labor	Martyn Evans	34,159	42.37	+3.40
	Family First	David G Pointon	4,379	5.43	+5.43
	Greens	Patricia Murray	3,346	4.15	+1.00
	One Nation	David Dwyer	2,066	2.56	-4.34
	Democrats	Richard Way	1,346	1.67	-7.87
Total formal votes			80,616	93.52	-0.05
Informal votes			5,585	6.48	+0.05
Turnout			86,585	94.98	+0.08
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Liberal	David Fawcett	40,848	50.67	+1.93
	Labor	Martyn Evans	39,768	49.33	-1.93
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+1.93

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