Dogwatcher wrote:Interesting times for the ALP...
Port Adelaide gone - a very safe seat.
Makin and Wakefield, now Spence, will move further south. You'd expect Makin will remain Labor and Spence will become an even stronger ALP stronghold for Nick Champion (as the northern parts of the seat, Balak and Clare, surely be excised).
You'd think Butler would target Hindmarsh. So what can the ALP offer Georganas to step aside? Or will it be a knock-em-down, drag-out fight?
Nah basically makes Makin, Adelaide, Spence and Hindmarsh solid safe Labor seats - Western and Northern suburbs of Adelaide. Kingston Outer South is on a 15% margin for the ALP largely due to a patsy running against the Ridgeworth.
The only interesting time for the ALP is who they sacrifice internally for Butler.
Boothby and Sturt more LIb (Eastern and Inner South suburbs) add Mayo (nominally LIb) Grey and Barker and you've got a 50:50 split of the SA seats.
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!