Division of Boothby

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|Labour|nowrap|16 December 1903 – 8 October 1911|Previously held the Division of South Australia. Served as minister under Watson and Fisher. Died in office||||
||||David Gordon|Commonwealth Liberal|nowrap|11 November 1911 – 31 May 1913|Lost seat. Later elected to the South Australian Legislative Council in 1913||||
|||rowspan=3||rowspan=3|George Dankel|Labor|nowrap|31 May 1913 – 14 November 1916|rowspan=3|Previously held the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Torrens. Retired|
|||nowrap|National Labor|nowrap|14 November 1916 – 17 February 1917||||||
|||nowrap|Nationalist|nowrap|17 February 1917 – 26 March 1917||||||
||||William Story|Nationalist|nowrap|5 May 1917 – 16 December 1922|Previously a member of the Senate. Served as Chief Government Whip in the House under Hughes. Lost seat||||
|||rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Jack Duncan-Hughes|Liberal Union|nowrap|16 December 1922 – 1925|rowspan=2|Lost seat. Later elected to the Senate in 1931|
|||nowrap|Nationalist|nowrap|1925 – 17 November 1928||||||
|||rowspan=3||rowspan=3|John Price|Labor|nowrap|17 November 1928 – March 1931|rowspan=3|Previously held the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Port Adelaide. Served as Chief Government Whip in the House under Lyons. Died in office|
|||Independent|nowrap|March 1931 – 7 May 1931|||||||
|||United Australia|nowrap|7 May 1931 – 23 April 1941|||||||
||||Grenfell Price|United Australia|nowrap|24 May 1941 – 21 August 1943|Lost seat||||
||||Thomas Sheehy|Labor|nowrap|21 August 1943 – 10 December 1949|Did not contest in 1949. Failed to win the Division of Kingston||||
||||(Sir) John McLeay Sr.|Liberal|nowrap|10 December 1949 – 31 October 1966|Previously held the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Unley. Served as Speaker during the Menzies and Holt Governments. Retired. Son was John McLeay Jr.||||
||||John McLeay Jr.|Liberal|nowrap|26 November 1966 – 22 January 1981|Served as minister under Fraser. Resigned in order to retire from politics. Father was John McLeay Sr.||||
||||Steele Hall|Liberal|nowrap|21 February 1981 – 29 January 1996|Previously served as the Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. Previously a member of the Senate. Retired||||
||||Andrew Southcott|Liberal|nowrap|2 March 1996 – 9 May 2016|Retired||||
||||Nicolle Flint|Liberal|nowrap|2 July 2016 – 21 May 2022|Retired||||
||||Louise Miller-Frost|Labor|nowrap|21 May 2022 – present|Incumbent||||

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.

## Notes

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

## Infobox (australian electorate)

- **federal**: yes
- **name**: Boothby
- **caption**: Interactive map of boundaries
- **created**: 1903
- **mp**: Louise Miller-Frost
- **mp-party**: Australian Labor Party, Labor
- **namesake**: William Boothby
- **electors**: 123,949 (2019)
- **area**: 130
- **class**: Outer Metropolitan