Division of Boothby

Boothby Australian House of Representatives Division
Boothby (dark green) in the city of Adelaide
Created	1903
MP	Nicolle Flint
Party	Liberal
Namesake	William Boothby
Electors	123,949 (2019)
Area	130 km2 (50.2 sq mi)
Demographic	Outer Metropolitan

The Division of Boothby is an Australian electoral division in South Australia. It was set up 1903 and is named for William Boothby (1829–1903), the Returning Officer for the first federal election in 1901.

It covers the suburbs south of Adelaide, including Aberfoyle Park, Belair, Blackwood, Brighton, Daw Park, Eden Hills, Flagstaff Hill, Marion, Mitcham, Seacliff, St Marys and Panorama.

Members

	Image	Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Lee Batchelor (1865–1911)	Labour	1903 – 8 October 1911	Previously held the Division of South Australia. Served as minister under Chris Watson and Andrew Fisher. Died in office
		David Gordon (1865–1946)	Commonwealth Liberal	1911 Boothby by-election – 1913	Lost seat. Later elected to the South Australian Legislative Council in 1913
	|	George Dankel (1864–1926)	Labor	1913 – [14 November 1916	Previously held the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Torrens. Retired
			National Labor	14 November 1916 – 17 February 1917
			Nationalist	17 February 1917 – 26 March 1917
		William Story (1857–1924)	Nationalist	1917 – 1922	Previously a member of the Senate. Served as Chief Government Whip under Billy Hughes. Lost seat
		Jack Duncan-Hughes (1882–1962)	Liberal Union	1922 – 1925	Lost seat. Elected to the Senate in 1931
			Nationalist	1925 – 1928
		John Price (1882–1941)	Labor	1928 – March 1931	Previously held the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Port Adelaide. Served as Chief Government Whip under Joseph Lyons. Died in office
			Independent	March 1931 – 7 May 1931
			United Australia	7 May 1931 – 23 April 1941
		Grenfell Price (1892–1977)	United Australia	1941 Boothby by-election– 1943	Lost seat
		Thomas Sheehy (1899–1984)	Labor	1943 – 1949]]	Did not contest in the seat in the election in 1949. Failed to win the Division of Kingston
		(Sir) John McLeay Sr. (1893–1982)	Liberal	1949]] – 1966	Previously held the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Unley. Served as Speaker during the Robert Menzies and Harold Holt Governments. Retired. Son was John McLeay Jr.
		John McLeay Jr. (1922–2000)	Liberal	1966 – 22 January 1981	Served as minister under Malcolm Fraser. Resigned in order to retire from politics. Father was John McLeay Sr.
		Steele Hall (1928–)	Liberal	1981 Boothby by-election– 1996	Previously Premier of South Australia (1968–70), and later a Liberal Movement member of the Senate (1974–77). Retired
		Andrew Southcott (1967–)	Liberal	1996 – 2016	Retired
		Nicolle Flint (1978–)	Liberal	2016 – present	Current member

David Gordon won the seat in a by-election in 1911 caused by the death of Lee Batchelor. Another by-election was held in 1941 after the death of John Price. Sir John McLeay was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1956-66. His son John, Jr., was a minister in the Fraser government. Steele Hall had been Premier of South Australia, when he won the seat in a by-election caused by McLeay accepting a diplomatic position overseas.

Election results

• 2004 election results
• 2007 election results
• 2010 election results
• 2013 election results
• 2016 election results
• 2019 election results

Notes

• ABC profile for Boothby: 2013
• AEC profile for Boothby: 2013
• Poll Bludger profile for Boothby: 2013