Electoral district of Taiping

Taiping太平 Tàipíng太平 TaiheiEnderronian Parliament 	Taiping太平 Tàipíng太平 TaiheiEnderronian Parliament 	Taiping太平 Tàipíng太平 TaiheiEnderronian Parliament
Location of Taiping in Longshan 	Location of Taiping in Longshan 	Location of Taiping in Longshan
District Details 	District Details 	District Details
Created 	1990 	
MP 	Phillip Wilkie 	
Party 	Liberal 	
Namesake 	Chinese name for the Pacific Ocean 	
Electors 	127,036 	
Area 	TBA km² 	
Demographic 	Provincial 	
Taiping is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Longshan Prefecture, first contested at the 1990 federal election. Its name is derived from the Chinese name for the Pacific Ocean, 太平洋 (Tàipíng Yáng). It covers a narrow strip of territory on Longshan's northern coast.
The sitting member, since the 2006 federal election, is Phillip Wilkie, a member of the Liberal Party.
==History==
Taiping was created in the 1990 redistribution, largely replacing the electorate of Longshan North. When originally created, it stretched from the outer western suburbs of Chung'an to the Flinders border. While the North Coast of Longshan is a rural and traditionally conservative area, it was no match for the Social Democratic bent of Chung'an's working-class western suburbs, making it a fairly safe Social Democratic seat.
The 1998 redistribution moved Taiping almost completely out of the Chung'an metropolitan area, turning it into a marginal seat in the process. Inaugural member Luke Munro, of the Social Democrats, narrowly lost the seat to the Conservative Party's Daniel S. Kelly at the 1998 federal election.
The Conservatives' hold on the seat was short-lived. Kelly resigned in June 1999 after admitting to lying to an Independent Commission Against Corruption hearing regarding allegations that he may have breached electoral funding laws. The resulting by-election is notable in that the governing Social Democrats won the seat back from the Conservative Party, making it one of the few federal by-elections in Enderronian history at which the government has won a seat from the opposition; the previous occurrence had been at the 1972 Brooklyn by-election.
David Lui held the seat for the Social Democrats until he was defeated by Liberal Party candidate Phillip Wilkie at the 2006 federal election; Wilkie has held it since.
==Members==
#	Member 	Member 	Party 	Term
1	width="3%"	Luke Munro 	Social Democrats	1990–1998
2	 	Daniel S. Kelly	Conservative 	1998–1999
2	 	Daniel S. Kelly	Independent 	1999
3	 	David Lui 	Social Democrats	1999–2006
4	 	Phillip Wilkie 	Liberal 	2006–
==Election results==
Enderronian federal election, 2018: Taiping	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Taiping	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Taiping	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Taiping	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Taiping	Enderronian federal election, 2018: Taiping
Party 	Party 	Candidate 	Votes 	% 	±%
 	Liberal 	Phillip Wilkie 	42,004 	36.32 	–4.99
 	Social Democrats 	Andrew Shu 	30,092 	26.02 	+1.18
 	National 	James Zhong 	18,261 	15.79 	–2.94
 	Greens 	Kamiko Nishida 	16,445 	14.22 	+2.04
 	Democrats 	Russell Varner 	4,163 	3.60 	–3.27
 	Left Bloc 	Rose Madison 	2,498 	2.16 	+2.16
 	Unity 	Patrick Rodriguez 	2,186 	1.89 	+1.27
Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	Total formal votes 	115,649 	97.75 	+0.45
Informal votes 	Informal votes 	Informal votes 	2,668 	2.25 	–0.45
Turnout 	Turnout 	Turnout 	118,317 	93.14 	+0.70
Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result 	Two-party-preferred result
 	Liberal 	Phillip Wilkie 	63,133 	54.59 	–3.35
 	Social Democrats 	Andrew Shu 	52,516 	45.41 	+3.35
 	Liberal hold 	Liberal hold 	Swing 	–3.35 	
Electoral districts of the Enderronian Parliament in Longshan Prefecture
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