Candidates...

1. Tony Piccolo (Australian Labor Party)

2. Penny Johnston (The Greens)

3. Matthew Allpress (Gamers 4 Croydon)

4. Lachlan Hetherington (Fair Land Tax Party)

5. Tony Bates (Family First Party)

6. Cosie Costa (Liberal Party)

7. Simon Stewart-Rattray (Save RAH)

The electorate incorporates parts of the Town of Gawler, Light Regional, Barossa, and City of Playford councils.

Parts of Angle Vale, Davoren Park and Freeling were lost in boundary redistribution. Has gained Roseworthy and Gawler Belt.

The electorate is named after Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General for South Australia.

At the 2006 election Tony Piccolo attracted 44.6 per cent of the primary vote and defeated Liberal Malcolm Buckby by 857 votes (after the distribution of preferences.

Minor parties (Family First, Greens, No Rodeo and Democrats) made up less than 16 per cent of the 2006 vote.

When Tony Piccolo was elected he was the first Labor candidate to claim the seat in 62 years.

ELECTORATE OF SCHUBERT

Candidates...

1. James Troup (Family First Party)

2. William Smidmore (Independent - Work For You)

3. Jasemin Rose (The Greens)

4. Ivan Venning (Liberal Party)

5. Lynda Hopgood (Country Labor)

The electorate has the River Murray as it’s eastern boundary and includes parts of the Barossa, Mid Murray, Light Regional and Adelaide Hills councils.

It was created at the 1994 redistribution and contested for the first time at the 1997 election.

Ivan Venning has held the seat since its was formed when Custance disappeared.

The boundary redistribution has seen Freeling included in the electorate.

At the 2006 election Ivan Venning gained 47.3 per cent of the primary vote.

The Liberal stalwart won the seat by more than 2600 votes (after the distribution of preferences).

Although soundly defeated, both Labor and Family First made significant in-roads in 2006. Labor support jumped 12 per cent and Family First had a 7.8 per cent boost.