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Colton is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a 14.2 km² urban electorate on Adelaide's western beaches, taking in the suburbs of Fulham, Fulham Gardens, Grange, Henley Beach, Henley Beach South, Kidman Park as well as parts of Findon, Lockleys and Seaton.

Colton was created in the 1991 electoral distribution as a nominal seat for the Australian Labor Party, replacing the abolished Henley. It was first contested at the 1993 state election, where it was won in a large swing to the Liberal Party by former Adelaide City Council Lord Mayor Steve Condous, recording 57.7% of the two-party preferred vote. This was reduced in 1997 to 51%, and upon Condous' retirement, it was captured by Paul Caica for the ALP with a 5.6% swing.

The electoral district is named after Mary Colton, who arrived in Adelaide in 1839 and worked for the welfare of women and children. She was the President of the Women's Suffrage League, and lived to see the introduction of equal voting rights for women in 1894.

[edit] Members for Colton

Member		Party	Term
	Steve Condous	Liberal Party of Australia	1993–2002
	Paul Caica	Australian Labor Party	2002–Present

[edit] Election results

South Australian state election, 2006: Colton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Paul Caica	11,866	58.2	+16.5
	Liberal	Tim Blackamore	5,952	29.2	-9.6
	Greens	Heather Merran	1,191	5.8	+0.3
	Family First	Victoria de Los Angeles	820	4.0	+1.6
	Democrats	Anna Tree	560	2.7	-1.7
Total formal votes			20.389	96.6	+1.1
Informal votes			718	3.4	-1.1
Turnout			21,107	93.5	-0.8
Two Candidate Preferred Result
	Labor	Paul Caica	13,522	66.3	+11.7
	Liberal	Tim Blackamore	6,867	33.7	-11.7
	Labor hold		Swing	+11.7

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