SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 2010

PLAYFORD Labor 25.7%
Region: Outer Northern Suburbs Federal division: Makin
	FRANK FELDMANN F.R.E.E. Australia Party STEVE AMBLER Family First DION ASHENDEN Greens JACK SNELLING Labor (top) KERRY FAGGOTTER Liberal (bottom) ANDREW WOON Australian Democrats
Electoral District Boundaries Commission map

Playford is a safe Labor seat north-east of the city, bordered along the north-west by Main North Road and centred on the suburb of Ingle Farm. The redistribution has transferred about 2000 voters in Gulfview Heights from Wright in the north-east. The seat has been held for Labor since 1997 by Jack Snelling, who entered parliament at the age of 24. Snelling was a union organiser and staffer to federal MP Martyn Evans before entering parliament, and is associated with Right figurehead Michael Atkinson. He became Deputy Speaker in April 2005 in place of independent Fisher MP Bob Such, who had become Speaker when the then independent member for Hammond, Peter Lewis, was forced aside. Snelling was himself promoted to the job after the 2006 election left Labor with the clear majority needed to install its own choice. He made the headlines in October 2009 when he quieted a rowdy chamber with a full-throated “sit down”, which he followed by threatening to resign if order was not restored.

PREDICTION: Labor retain