ALP 18.7%
Incumbent MP
Nick Champion, since 2022. Previously federal member for Wakefield 2007-2019, federal member for Spence 2019-2022.
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 a small amount of territory on the eastern edge of the seat, losing part of Munno Para West to Light and losing part of Smithfield and Elizabeth North to Elizabeth. These changes cut the Labor margin from 19.7% to 18.7%.
History
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.
Gee retired in 2022, and was succeeded by Nick Champion. Champion had been a federal Labor MP representing a seat in the area since 2007.
Assessment
Taylor is a very safe Labor seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Nick Champion | Labor | 11,752 | 53.4 | +8.1 | 52.6 |
| Shawn Lock | Liberal | 4,629 | 21.0 | +0.8 | 21.9 |
| Michelle Crowley | One Nation | 1,934 | 8.8 | +8.8 | 8.9 |
| Gary Newton Balfort | Family First | 1,695 | 7.7 | +7.7 | 7.6 |
| John Wishart | Greens | 1,314 | 6.0 | -1.0 | 6.0 |
| Rita Kuhlmann | Independent | 668 | 3.0 | +3.0 | 3.1 |
| Informal | 1,204 | 5.2 |
2022 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Nick Champion | Labor | 15,319 | 69.7 | +7.8 | 68.7 |
| Shawn Lock | Liberal | 6,673 | 30.3 | -7.8 | 31.3 |
Booths have been divided into three parts: north-east, south-west and west.
Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, with 57% in the west and 76% in the north-east and south-east.
| Voter group | ON prim | FF prim | ALP 2PP | Total votes | % of votes |
| North-East | 7.9 | 8.5 | 75.7 | 4,515 | 24.8 |
| West | 9.4 | 7.1 | 57.1 | 3,876 | 21.3 |
| South-East | 8.5 | 8.1 | 76.2 | 2,705 | 14.8 |
| Other votes | 9.3 | 7.2 | 67.8 | 7,129 | 39.1 |
Election results in Taylor at the 2022 South Australian state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor and the Liberal Party.
This seat like many others in Northern Adelaide will be an afterthought as a guaranteed Labor hold with a margin likely to reach or exceed 30% (similar to Labor strongholds in WA following the 2021 wipeout election).
Incumbent MP Nick Champion is one of the few ex Federal MPs from mainland states who have decided to move into state Parliament (although this trend has increased in recent years, with others including Janelle Saffin from NSW, Yvette D’Ath in Queensland and Alannah Mactiernan in WA).
got something against tassie?
Not really John, in fact Ben mentioned in one post that Tasmania is unusual in that it is more likely that ex Federal MPs will switch to run for state Parliament compared to the other mainland states. This was highlighted with three ex Federal MP’s (Bridget Archer, Gavin Pearce and Brian Mitchell) all winning spots in the most recent Tasmanian election.
all 3 in different circumstances. Archer was defeated, Pearce retired of his own volition and Mitchell was forced out to make way for Rebecca White