Electoral district of Bragg

Bragg South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with electoral district of Bragg highlighted Electoral district of Bragg (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1970
MP	Vickie Chapman
Party	Liberal Party of Australia (SA)
Namesake	William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg
Electors	25,104 (2014)
Area	60.4 km2 (23.3 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates

Bragg is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. The seat of Bragg is named after the eminent physicists Bragg – William Henry and his son, William Lawrence. The electorate is largely urban and encompasses a significant portion of the City of Burnside, stretching from the east parklands of Adelaide into the Adelaide Hills. After a redistribution following the 2006 election, the boundary moved eastwards to include suburbs that had formerly been in the seat of Heysen and now borders Kavel. Bragg currently includes the metropolitan suburbs of Beaumont, Burnside, Dulwich, Erindale, Hazelwood Park, Heathpool, Kensington Park, Leabrook, Linden Park, Rose Park, Marryatville, Skye, St Georges, Stonyfell, Toorak Gardens, Tusmore, Wattle Park and parts of Glen Osmond, and in the hills it includes Crafers, Cleland, Greenhill, Mount Osmond, Piccadilly, Summertown and parts of Ashton, Basket Range, Carey Gully, Horsnell Gully, Leawood Gardens and Uraidla.

The seat was first contested at the 1970 election as a replacement for the abolished, larger seat of Burnside, one of fifteen new seats created in Adelaide in order to give the capital fairer representation. It has been held by the Liberals for its entire existence, and has usually been a comfortably safe Liberal seat. It is currently the Liberals' safest metropolitan seat, with an 18.7 percent swing needed for Labor to win it.

Its best-known member was David Tonkin, who served as Premier of South Australia from 1979 to 1982. He resigned shortly after the Liberals lost the 1982 state election. The ensuing 1983 Bragg by-election was won handily by fellow Liberal Graham Ingerson, who went on to become a minister under Dean Brown and John Olsen and served as Deputy Premier under Olsen from 1996 to 1998. Ingerson retired in 2002 and was succeeded by current member Vickie Chapman. As a measure of the strong conservative bent of this seat, the Liberals won primary vote majorities even in the Labor landslides of 1977, 1985 and 2006. The Liberals won Bragg in 2006 with a comfortable majority of 12.6 percent, one of only four safe Liberal seats in the state and was left as the only safe metropolitan Liberal seat.

Members for Bragg

Member		Party	Term
	David Tonkin	Liberal and Country	1970–1974
		Liberal	1974–1983
	Graham Ingerson	Liberal	1983–2002
	Vickie Chapman	Liberal	2002–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Bragg

South Australian state election, 2014: Bragg

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Vickie Chapman	15,033	65.7	+2.6
	Labor	Ella Waters	4,958	21.7	+0.1
	Greens	Ami Harrison	2,891	12.6	+0.4
Total formal votes			22,882	98.3	+0.2
Informal votes			400	1.7	−0.2
Turnout			23,282	92.7	+0.3
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	Vickie Chapman	15,711	68.7	−1.5
	Labor	Ella Waters	7,171	31.3	+1.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	−1.5

References

• ABC profile for Bragg: 2014
• ECSA profile for Bragg: 2014
• Poll Bludger profile for Bragg: 2014