History
Before 1949 and the creation of the Division of Sturt, Boothby covered most of the southern and eastern suburbs of Adelaide, and changed hands several times between the Australian Labor Party and the conservative parties. Since 1949 it has been confined to the affluent south-eastern and gulfside suburbs and has traditionally been regarded as a "safe" or "fairly safe" seat for the Liberal Party. However, since 2007 it has become increasingly marginal. Today it extends from Mitcham and Belair in the east to Brighton and Seacliff in the west.
The seat has been held by Andrew Southcott since 1996. Its most prominent members were Sir John McLeay, who was Speaker 1956-66, and former state premier Steele Hall.
The seat of Boothby gained national prominence in 2007 when the then opposition Labor Party preselected Nicole Cornes, an Advertiser columnist and wife of popular former footballer Graham Cornes. Her bid for the seat was unsuccessful, though Southcott saw his margin decrease to 53 percent.
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