Electoral district of Ross Smith

The electoral district of Ross Smith was an electorate for the South Australian Legislative Assembly. It was replaced by the electoral district of Enfield for the 2002 election. Sir Ross Macpherson Smith was a member of the Australian Light Horse at Gallipoli and Sinai during World War I. He then joined the Australian Flying Corps after learning to fly in Egypt. He and his brother won the 1919 England to Australia air race (taking almost a month) and established an aerodrome at Northfield.

Ross Smith South Australia—House of Assembly
State	South Australia
Created	1970
Abolished	2002
Namesake	Ross Macpherson Smith
Demographic	Metropolitan

The naming of the seat was unique amongst electoral districts in South Australia, and indeed anywhere within Australia, in that it incorporated the first name of the individual it was named after. Most likely the case for this was to distinguish between Ross Macpherson Smith and Keith Macpherson Smith, who were brothers.

Though typically a safe Labor seat, it returned a marginal result at the 1993 election landslide, with Labor reduced to a 2.1 percent two-party margin. It returned to being a safe Labor seat at the following election.

Members for Ross Smith

Member		Party	Term
	Jack Jennings	Labor	1970–1977
	John Bannon	Labor	1977–1993
	Ralph Clarke	Labor	1993–2002

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Ross Smith

External links

• 1985 & 1989 election boundaries, page 18 & 19