Electoral District Of Waite
Waite is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. Named after Peter Waite, a 19th entrepreneur and philanthropist in the current area of the electorate, it is a 30.6km² urban electorate in Adelaide's inner south-eastern suburbs, taking in the suburbs of Brown Hill Creek, Clapham, Colonel Light Gardens, Cumberland Park, Hawthorn, Kingswood, Lower Mitcham, Lynton, Mitcham, Netherby, Springfield, Torrens Park, Urrbrae, Westbourne Park as well as parts of Belair, Daw Park, Leawood Gardens and Panorama.
Waite was created in the 1991 electoral distribution as a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia, replacing the abolished district of Mitcham, the only single-member lower house seat anywhere throughout Australia to be won by the Democrats. Waite was first contested at the 1993 state election, where it was won by Liberal treasurer and deputy-premier Stephen Baker. Upon retirement in 1997, he was replaced by Martin Hamilton-Smith.
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