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Labor has announced their 2022 and 2025 Mayo candidate Marisa Bell as their candidate for Heysen in 2026.
Genevieve Dawson-Scott will be the Greens’ candidate, and Heysen will be one of their target seats: https://greens.org.au/sa/person/genevieve-dawson-scott
I’m not a local, can someone please fill me in why the Greens do so well here.
@SpaceFish a few things:
1) It’s a rural seat on paper but there are a number of big urban centres in Heysen: Crafers, Bridgewater, Aldgate, Strathalbyn etc. These places use to be country farm territory but Adelaide’s urban sprawl has led to a lot of tree-changers here –> More progressive politics but in a teal slant rather than Greens. More on that in Point 3.
2) It’s within the hills, so there’s naturally a conservation theme with an environmental focus of the environment. Additionally, the part of Onkaparinga in the west is particularly conscious of environmental/climatic concerns as that’s where the river flows and it can affect livelihoods of people around there quite intensively.
3) The entirety of the seat is in Mayo. Used to be conservative heartland until 2022 when Labor won the 2PP and again in 2025 when they made the 2CP. The people here seem to prefer someone who’s quite progressive environmentally and more conservative economically, which is something Rebekha Sharkie was able to do. It used to be the seat of Alexander Downer but it’s trended a long way from the way it was back in the 1980s.