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Ashford is an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly which includes many of Adelaide's inner south western suburbs. The district forms part of three federal electorates: the Division of Hindmarsh, the Division of Boothby and the Division of Adelaide.

The electorate's name dervives from the name given by early settler Charles Everard's property 'Ashford' in 1838 that was thought to have the best orchard in the colony. The name was also given to a suburb within the electorate. The electorate includes the suburbs of Cowandilla, Hilton, Mile End South, Keswick, Richmond, Marleston, Kurralta Park, Ashford, Forestville, Everard Park, Plympton, Glandore, Black Forest, Clarence Park and parts of Wayville, Goodwood, North Plympton, Plympton Park, South Plympton, Edwardstown, Millswood and Clarence Gardens. The electorate covers an area of approximately 15.4km².

The district of Hanson was renamed to Ashford in 1997. When the electoral laws were changed so that electoral boundaries had to take voting patterns into account, Hanson was re-drawn as a Labor electorate in 1993, which caused Heini Becker to move to Peake (now known as West Torrens), however it was still narrowly won by Liberal candidate Stewart Leggett. Currently the seat is held by Labor minister Stephanie Key who defeated Liberal Stewart Leggett at the 1997 election. Her Liberal challenger at the 2006 election was Kevin Kaeding, however Key increased her two party preferred margin to 16.1%.

[edit] Members for Ashford

Member		Party	Term
	Stephanie Key	Australian Labor Party	1997–present

[edit] Election results

South Australian state election, 2006: Ashford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Stephanie Key	10,667	53.3	+12.6
	Liberal	Kevin Kaeding	5,396	26.9	-10.2
	Greens	Peter Hastwell	1,828	9.1	+3.7
	Family First	Robyn Munro	1,002	5.0	+2.0
	Democrats	Andy Johnstone	928	4.6	-5.0
	One Nation	David Dwyer	205	1.0	-0.6
Total formal votes			20,026	96.0	-0.5
Informal votes			834	4.0	+0.5
Turnout			20,860	91.3	-1.4
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Stephanie Key	13,230	66.1	+12.4
	Liberal	Kevin Kaeding	8,853	33.9	-12.4
	Labor hold		Swing	+12.4

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