Wright – SA 2026

ALP 12.0%

Incumbent MP
Blair Boyer, since 2018.

Geography
Northern Adelaide. Wright covers parts of Salisbury and Tea Tree Gully council areas, including the suburbs of Salisbury East, Surrey Downs, Wynn Vale and part of Modbury North.

Redistribution
Lee expanded slightly to the north, taking in Salisbury East from King.

History
The electorate of Wright has existed since the 1993 election. The seat was won by the Liberal Party at the 1993 landslide election but has been won by Labor at every other election.

The seat was created as a notionally safe Labor seat, but at the 1993 election a landslide swept in the Liberal Party’s Scott Ashenden.

In 1997, Ashenden lost to the ALP’s Jennifer Rankine. Rankine was re-elected four times, and retired in 2018.

Labor’s Blair Boyer won Wright in 2018, and was re-elected in 2022.

Candidates

  • Blair Boyer (Labor)
  • Sean Porter (One Nation)
  • Assessment
    Wright is a safe Labor seat.

    2022 result

    Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
    Blair Boyer Labor 12,231 52.0 +14.1 51.9
    Graham Reynolds Liberal 7,550 32.1 +1.0 31.9
    Alexandra Mcgee Greens 2,001 8.5 +2.7 8.4
    Kym Nancarrow Family First 1,737 7.4 +7.4 7.3
    Others 0.6
    Informal 670 2.8

    2022 two-party-preferred result

    Candidate Party Votes % Swing Redist
    Blair Boyer Labor 14,548 61.9 +8.8 62.0
    Graham Reynolds Liberal 8,971 38.1 -8.8 38.0

    Booth breakdown

    Booths have been divided into three parts: central, east and north.

    Labor won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 61% in the east to 65% in the north.

    Voter group GRN prim ALP 2PP Total votes % of votes
    Central 8.9 61.1 6,770 27.0
    North 6.9 65.0 4,881 19.4
    East 9.6 61.0 4,150 16.5
    Other votes 8.2 61.4 9,296 37.0

    Election results in Wright at the 2022 South Australian state election
    Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for Labor and the Liberal Party.

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