Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Heysen is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Sir Hans Heysen, a prominent South Australian landscape artist. It is a 1,102 km² electoral district stretching from residential suburbs in the east and southeast of Adelaide through to farming areas some distance from the city. It includes the suburbs and towns of Aldgate, Bridgewater, Crafers, Cherry Gardens, Clarendon, Echunga, Kangarilla, Macclesfield and Stirling. It is classed as a metropolitan seat.As Heysen combines both wealthier suburbs in the foothills of the Adelaide Hills and rural areas further east, it has been a Liberal stronghold ever since its creation in the electoral redistribution of 1969, when the district of Stirling was abolished; the effects taking place at the 1970 elections. It was abolished in 1977, forcing then-member David Wotton to move to the seat of Murray, but was re-established in 1985. He subsequently held the seat until his retirement in 2002, when he was replaced by Liberal Isobel Redmond.The 1997 state election saw the Democrats receive 48.1 percent of the two-candidate preferred vote, the closest they had ever come to a seat any Australian lower house (apart from the South Australian seat of Mitcham). The 2002 state election saw the Democrats receive 46 percent of the two-candidate preferred vote. The 2006 state election saw their vote collapse with Labor being brought back into the two-candidate race. Out of 47 lower house seats, the SA Greens have consistently polled strongest in Heysen. Greens candidate Lynton Vonow came within a few percent of winning the overlapping federal seat of Mayo at the 2008 by-election. Vonow contested Heysen for the Greens at the 2014 state election and overtook the Labor candidate coming second after preferences with a 39 percent two-candidate preferred vote from a 19.7 percent primary vote. The Greens also polled well in seats such as Kavel and Davenport with primary votes over 15 percent.. }
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- Electoral_district_of_Heysen abstract "Heysen is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Sir Hans Heysen, a prominent South Australian landscape artist. It is a 1,102 km² electoral district stretching from residential suburbs in the east and southeast of Adelaide through to farming areas some distance from the city. It includes the suburbs and towns of Aldgate, Bridgewater, Crafers, Cherry Gardens, Clarendon, Echunga, Kangarilla, Macclesfield and Stirling. It is classed as a metropolitan seat.As Heysen combines both wealthier suburbs in the foothills of the Adelaide Hills and rural areas further east, it has been a Liberal stronghold ever since its creation in the electoral redistribution of 1969, when the district of Stirling was abolished; the effects taking place at the 1970 elections. It was abolished in 1977, forcing then-member David Wotton to move to the seat of Murray, but was re-established in 1985. He subsequently held the seat until his retirement in 2002, when he was replaced by Liberal Isobel Redmond.The 1997 state election saw the Democrats receive 48.1 percent of the two-candidate preferred vote, the closest they had ever come to a seat any Australian lower house (apart from the South Australian seat of Mitcham). The 2002 state election saw the Democrats receive 46 percent of the two-candidate preferred vote. The 2006 state election saw their vote collapse with Labor being brought back into the two-candidate race. Out of 47 lower house seats, the SA Greens have consistently polled strongest in Heysen. Greens candidate Lynton Vonow came within a few percent of winning the overlapping federal seat of Mayo at the 2008 by-election. Vonow contested Heysen for the Greens at the 2014 state election and overtook the Labor candidate coming second after preferences with a 39 percent two-candidate preferred vote from a 19.7 percent primary vote. The Greens also polled well in seats such as Kavel and Davenport with primary votes over 15 percent.".