Electoral district of Bright

Bright South Australia—House of Assembly
Map of Adelaide, South Australia with the electoral district of Bright highlighted Electoral district of Bright (green) in the Greater Adelaide area
State	South Australia
Created	1985
MP	David Speirs
Party	Liberal Party of Australia (SA)
Namesake	Sir Charles Tilston Bright
Electors	24,381 (2014)
Area	22.8 km2 (8.8 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan
Coordinates

Bright is an electorate for the South Australian House of Assembly. It is named after Sir Charles Tilston Bright, a former Supreme Court of South Australia judge and Chancellor of Flinders University. The seat covers southern coastal suburbs of Adelaide including Brighton, North Brighton, South Brighton, Hallett Cove, Hove, Kingston Park, Marino, Seacliff, Seacliff Park, and part of Somerton Park.

The electorate was created at the 1983 redistribution, to replace the abolished seat of Brighton, as a marginal Liberal seat with a notional one percent two-party margin. However, it was won by the Labor's Derek Robertson at the 1985 election, before being won by Liberal Wayne Matthew at the 1989 election. He held the seat until his retirement at the 2006 election. Liberal shadow minister Angus Redford left the South Australian Legislative Council to contest the seat but was defeated by Labor's Chloë Fox from a 14.4 percent swing, the largest in the state, amidst a statewide landslide averaging a 7.7 percent swing. The Liberals picked up a 6.2 percent swing at the 2010 election, just short of picking up the seat, with Labor retaining the seat on a 0.4 percent margin, making Bright Labor's most marginal seat following the election. Liberal David Speirs won the seat from a 3.7 percent swing at the 2014 election.

Members for Bright

Member		Party	Term
	Derek Robertson	Labor	1985–1989
	Wayne Matthew	Liberal	1989–2006
	Chloë Fox	Labor	2006–2014
	David Speirs	Liberal	2014–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Bright

South Australian state election, 2014: Bright

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Speirs	10,780	48.5	+4.6
	Labor	Chloë Fox	8,491	38.2	−4.0
	Greens	Jamie Ryan	2,081	9.4	+1.5
	Family First	Steve Price	852	3.8	+0.9
Total formal votes			22,204	97.8	+0.8
Informal votes			488	2.2	−0.8
Turnout			22,692	93.1	−0.4
Two-party-preferred result
	Liberal	David Speirs	11,829	53.3	+3.7
	Labor	Chloë Fox	10,375	46.7	−3.7
	Liberal gain from Labor		Swing	+3.7

References

• ABC profile for Bright: 2014
• ECSA profile for Bright: 2014
• Poll Bludger profile for Bright: 2014