ALP 17.2%
Incumbent MP
Lee Odenwalder, since 2018. Previously member for Little Para 2010-2018.
Geography
Northern fringe of Adelaide. The electorate covers the suburbs of Elizabeth, Elizabeth East, Elizabeth Downs, Elizabeth Grove, Blakeview and Craigmore.
Redistribution
The suburb of Elizabeth South was transferred to Ramsay. This change reduced the Labor margin from 17.7% to 17.2%.
History
The seat of Elizabeth has existed since 1970, although it was renamed “Little Para” from 2006 to 2018. The electorate has mostly been won by Labor MPs, apart from a period of independent rule in the 1980s.
John Clark won the seat in 1970, and then the ALP’s Peter Duncan won Elizabeth in 1973.
Duncan served as Attorney-General from 1975 to 1979, and resigned from Elizabeth in 1984 to run for the federal seat of Makin. He served as a federal minister from 1987 to 1990, and held Makin until 1996.
The 1984 by-election was won by Elizabeth mayor Martyn Evans, running as an independent Labor candidate. He was re-elected as an independent at the 1985 and 1989 elections, and rejoined the ALP in 1993. He served as a minister in the dying days of the Labor government in 1992 and 1993.
Evans resigned from Elizabeth in 1994 to run for the federal Bonython by-election. Evans went on to serve as a Labor frontbencher from 1996 to 2001. At the 2004 election, Bonython was abolished and Evans ran unsuccessfully for the federal seat of Wakefield.
Lea Stevens was elected at the 1994 by-election. She won re-election in 1997, 2002 and in 2006 for the renamed electorate of Little Para. She served as a minister in the Rann government from 2002 to 2005.
Stevens retired in 2010, and Little Para was won by the ALP’s Lee Odenwalder. Odenwalder was re-elected in 2014, and again in 2018 for the renamed Elizabeth.
- John Lutman (One Nation)
- Lee Odenwalder (Labor)
- Tracey Smallwood (Greens)
- Jake Fedczyszyn (Liberal)
- John Bennett (Family First)
Assessment
Elizabeth is a very safe Labor seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Lee Odenwalder | Labor | 11,828 | 51.0 | +1.1 | 50.7 |
| Phil Gallasch | SA-Best | 4,351 | 18.8 | +18.8 | 18.9 |
| Sharka Byrne | Liberal | 4,083 | 17.6 | -11.3 | 17.9 |
| Wendy Morgan | Greens | 1,570 | 6.8 | -0.7 | 6.7 |
| John Mathiesen | Australian Christians | 1,353 | 5.8 | -5.2 | 5.8 |
| Informal | 1,401 | 5.7 |
2018 two-candidate-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Lee Odenwalder | Labor | 14,808 | 63.9 | +2.9 |
| Phil Gallasch | SA-Best | 8,377 | 36.1 | +36.1 |
2018 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Lee Odenwalder | Labor | 15,686 | 67.7 | +6.6 | 67.2 |
| Sharka Byrne | Liberal | 7,499 | 32.3 | -6.6 | 32.8 |
Booths in Elizabeth have been divided into three areas: central, north-east and south-west.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 66.3% in the north-east to 72.7% in the south-west.
| Voter group | SAB prim % | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| North-East | 18.2 | 66.3 | 10,202 | 48.5 |
| Central | 18.3 | 70.2 | 3,863 | 18.4 |
| South-West | 18.0 | 72.7 | 2,272 | 10.8 |
| Other votes | 21.2 | 64.3 | 4,712 | 22.4 |
Election results in Elizabeth at the 2018 South Australian state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, SA-Best and the Liberal Party.