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The Division of Boothby is an Australian electoral division in South Australia. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named for William Boothby (1829–1903), the Returning Officer for the first federal election.〔(Profile of the Electoral Division of Boothby ), 4 January 2011, Australian Electoral Commission.〕 The 130 km² seat currently extends from Clarence Gardens and Urrbrae in the north to Marino and part of Happy Valley in the south, including the suburbs of Aberfoyle Park, Belair, Blackwood, Brighton, Daw Park, Eden Hills, Flagstaff Hill, Marion, Mitcham, Seacliff, St Marys and Panorama. ==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 Liberal Party of Australia (and its predecessors) and the Australian Labor Party. The 1949 expansion of parliament saw parts of the southern portion transferred to the newly created Division of Kingston and parts of the eastern portion transferred to the newly created Division of Sturt. The redistribution prior to the 1949 election saw Boothby change from a marginal Labor seat on a 1.8 percent two-party margin to a marginal Liberal seat on a two percent two-party margin. However, as part of the massive Liberal victory in the 1949 election, the Liberals picked up a 9.3 percent two-party swing, turning it into a safe seat in one stroke. It was a fairly safe to safe Liberal seat for half a century. There was only one substantial redistribution in the past few decades, when Boothby absorbed parts of the abolished Division of Hawker prior to the 1993 election. This cut the Liberal margin by more than half, from a safe 10.7 two-party margin to a marginal notional 4.5 percent two-party margin, However, the Liberals won the seat on a fairly safe 7.8 percent two-party margin, and retained the seat as fairly safe to safe at future elections. Today Boothby extends from Mitcham and Belair in the east to Brighton and Seacliff in the west.〔(Map of the Commonwealth Electoral Division of Boothby ), 2004, reprinted 2007, Australian Electoral Commission.〕 At the 2004 election, despite a solid national two-party swing and vote to the Liberals, Boothby became a marginal Liberal seat for the first time in over half a century, with Labor's Chloë Fox reducing the Liberals to a 5.4 percent two-party margin. Labor's Nicole Cornes reduced the Liberals to a 2.9 percent two-party margin at the 2007 election, while Labor's Annabel Digance reduced the Liberals to just a 0.75 percent two-party margin. However, Boothby became a fairly safe Liberal seat again at the 2013 election. Boothby's most prominent members were Sir John McLeay, who was Speaker 1956-66, his son John, Jr., a minister in the Fraser government, and former state premier Steele Hall. Boothby has been held by backbencher Andrew Southcott since the 1996 election. In 2015 Southcott announced his retirement from parliament to take effect at the next Australian federal election. The Liberals have preselected doctoral student and newspaper columnist Nicolle Flint.〔(Liberals announce Nicolle Flint as Boothby candidate in SA to replace veteran Andrew Southcott: ABC 1 November 2015 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Division of Boothby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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