| MacKillop South Australia—House of Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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  Interactive map of electoral district boundaries from the2022 state election[a] | |||||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Created | 1993 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Nick McBride | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Independent | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Mary MacKillop | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 23,359 (2018) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 25,312.9 km2 (9,773.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Rural | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°39′S139°55′E / 36.650°S 139.917°E /-36.650; 139.917 | ||||||||||||||
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MacKillop is a single-memberelectoral district for theSouth Australian House of Assembly. It was named in 1991 after SisterMary MacKillop who served the local area, and later became the first Australian to be canonised as a Roman Catholic saint. MacKillop is a 25,313 km² rural electorate in the south-east of the state, stretching south and west from the mouth of theMurray River to the Victorian State border, but excluding the far-southern point of the state, (which includesMount Gambier). It contains theKingston District Council,Naracoorte Lucindale Council,District Council of Robe,Tatiara District Council,Wattle Range Council, as well as parts ofThe Coorong District Council. The main population centres areBordertown,Keith,Kingston SE,Meningie,Millicent,Naracoorte,Penola andRobe.
MacKillop was first contested at the1993 election, essentially as a reconfigured version of the oldelectoral district of Victoria.[2] Like its predecessor, it is a comfortably safeLiberal seat. Counting its time as Victoria, the seat has been held by the Liberals or their predecessors, theLiberal and Country League, for all but two terms since the switch to single-member seats in 1938.
The last member for Victoria,Dale Baker, a former state leader of the Liberal Party, transferred to MacKillop and won it easily. Baker went on to serve as a minister in theBrown andOlsen governments before being unseated at the1997 election byMitch Williams, who ran as an independent after losing a preselection battle with Baker. Williams returned to the Liberal Party in 1999 and was easily re-elected as a Liberal at the2002 election. He held the seat without serious difficulty until his retirement in2018, handing the seat to fellow LiberalNick McBride.
The seat is almost entirely within the equally conservative federal seat ofBarker.
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| Dale Baker | Liberal | 1993–1997 | |
| Mitch Williams | Independent | 1997–1999 | |
| Liberal | 1999–2018 | ||
| Nick McBride | Liberal | 2018–2023 | |
| Independent | 2023–present | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal | Nick McBride | 14,623 | 62.3 | +6.8 | |
| Labor | Mark Braes | 4,703 | 20.0 | +10.0 | |
| One Nation | Pam Giehr | 1,892 | 8.1 | +8.1 | |
| Family First | Dayle Baker | 1,139 | 4.9 | +4.9 | |
| National | Jonathan Pietzsch | 1,109 | 4.7 | +4.7 | |
| Total formal votes | 23,466 | 96.5 | |||
| Informal votes | 851 | 3.5 | |||
| Turnout | 24,317 | 89.4 | |||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Liberal | Nick McBride | 17,048 | 72.6 | −2.6 | |
| Labor | Mark Braes | 6,418 | 27.4 | +2.6 | |
| Liberalhold | Swing | −2.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||
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| Dist. | Total | Dist. | Total | Dist. | Total | ||||
| Quota (50% + 1) | 11,734 | ||||||||
| Liberal | Nick McBride | 14,623 | +457 | 15,080 | +519 | 15,599 | +1,449 | 17,048 | |
| Labor | Mark Braes | 4,703 | +102 | 4,805 | +416 | 5,221 | +1,197 | 6,418 | |
| One Nation | Pam Giehr | 1,892 | +189 | 2,081 | +565 | 2,646 | Excluded | ||
| Family First | Dayle Baker | 1,139 | +361 | 1,500 | Excluded | ||||
| National | Jonathan Pietzsch | 1,109 | Excluded | ||||||