Electoral district of Bright Information & Electoral district of Bright Links at HealthHaven.com

Bright is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers southern coastal suburbs of Adelaide including Hove, Brighton, Seacliff, Seacliff Park, Marino, Hallett Cove, Lonsdale and O'Sullivan Beach.

The electorate was created in the 1983 redistribution. It is named after Sir Charles Tilston Bright, a former Supreme Court of South Australia judge and Chancellor of Flinders University. Though initially won by Labor, it was won by Wayne Matthew the Liberal Party at the 1989 election, and held by the party until Matthew's retirement in 2006. Shadow minister Angus Redford attempted to enter the lower house from the Legislative Council upon Matthew's retirement, and was the favourite to succeed him, but was defeated by Labor's Chloe Fox amidst a statewide landslide on election day. The swing of 14.4 percent was the largest in the state.

[edit] Members for Bright

	Party	Term
Derek Robertson	Australian Labor Party	1985–1989
Wayne Matthew	Liberal Party of Australia	1989–2006
Chloe Fox	Australian Labor Party	2006–present

[edit] Election results

South Australian state election, 2006: Bright
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Chloe Fox	10,126	50.2	+16.9
	Liberal	Angus Redford	6,949	34.4	-10.2
	Greens	Allan Robins	1,315	6.5	+1.8
	Family First	Andrew Cole	905	4.5	+1.6
	Dignity for Disabled	Trevor Pyatt	492	2.4	+2.4
	Democrats	Caroline Siow	395	2.0	-6.2
Total formal votes			20,182	97.1	+0.2
Informal votes			600	2.9	-0.2
Turnout			20,782	92.6	-1.5
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Chloe Fox	11,983	59.4	+14.4
	Liberal	Angus Redford	8,199	40.6	-14.4
	Labor gain from Liberal		Swing	+14.4

[edit] External links