ALP 12.2%
Incumbent MP
Jon Gee, since 2018. Previously member for Napier, 2014-2018.
Geography
Northern fringe of Adelaide. Taylor covers the western half of the Playford council area and part of the Salisbury council area. Main suburbs include Elizabeth North, Smithfield, Davoren Park, Andrews Farm, Macdonald Park, Virginia and Angle Vale.
Redistribution
Taylor lost the remainder of the Adelaide Plains council area to Frome and also lost Burton and Direk to Ramsay. Taylor also gained Munno Para Downs from Light and Bolivar from Port Adelaide. These changes increased the Labor margin from 10.8% to 12.2%.
The electorate of Taylor has existed since the 1993 election. Taylor has always been held by the ALP.
Taylor was first won in 1993 by the outgoing Premier, Lynn Arnold. Arnold had held the seat of Ramsay since 1985, and before that held Salisbury from 1979 to 1985.
Arnold had served as a minister from 1982 until his election as Premier in 1992. His predecessor, John Bannon, resigned after the collapse of the State Bank of South Australia.
Arnold lost the 1993 election in a landslide, and in 1994 resigned from Parliament.
The 1994 by-election was won by Trish White, running for the ALP. White was promoted to the Labor frontbench in 1995, and became a minister when the Rann Labor government was former after the 2002 election. She served as a minister until 2005, and was re-elected in Taylor in 2006.
White retired in 2010, and the ALP’s Leesa Vlahos won Taylor. Vlahos was re-elected in 2014, and retired in 2018 after originally being preselected as Labor’s lead upper house candidate.
Labor MP Jon Gee had won the seat of Napier in 2014, and moved to Taylor in 2018 after the redistribution made significant changes to Napier.
Candidates
Sitting Labor MP Jon Gee is not running for re-election.
Assessment
Taylor is a safe Labor seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Jon Gee | Labor | 9,786 | 43.6 | -4.3 | 45.6 |
| Sonja Taylor | SA-Best | 5,644 | 25.1 | +25.1 | 21.7 |
| Sarika Sharma | Liberal | 4,308 | 19.2 | -13.0 | 19.9 |
| Kate Randell | Greens | 1,491 | 6.6 | -0.5 | 7.1 |
| Danny Bradley | Australian Christians | 1,239 | 5.5 | -6.4 | 5.6 |
| Others | 0.2 | ||||
| Informal | 1,358 | 5.7 |
2018 two-candidate-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| Jon Gee | Labor | 12,516 | 55.7 | |
| Sonja Taylor | SA-Best | 9,952 | 44.3 |
2018 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Jon Gee | Labor | 13,660 | 60.8 | +2.3 | 62.2 |
| Sarika Sharma | Liberal | 8,808 | 39.2 | -2.3 | 37.8 |
Booths in Taylor have been divided into three areas: north-east, south-east and west.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in two areas, with 66.7% in the north-east and 69.2% in the south-east. The Liberal Party narrowly polled 51.8% in the west.
| Voter group | SAB prim % | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| North-East | 14.5 | 66.7 | 5,944 | 29.7 |
| South-East | 22.3 | 69.2 | 5,658 | 28.2 |
| West | 28.0 | 48.2 | 3,569 | 17.8 |
| Other votes | 25.1 | 59.0 | 4,860 | 24.3 |
Election results in Taylor at the 2018 South Australian state election
Toggle between two-candidate-preferred votes, two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor, SA-Best and the Liberal Party.