The Division of Boothby is an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia. The division was created in 1903 and is named for William Boothby , who was the chief electoral officer in South Australia at the time of the first federal election in 1901. Before 1949 Boothby covered most of the southern and eastern suburbs of Adelaide, and changed hands several times behind the Australian Labor Party and the conservative parties. Since 1949 it has been confined to the affluent south-eastern and gulfside suburbs, and has been a safe seat for the Liberal Party. Today it includes the suburbs of Belair, Brighton , Mitcham and Seacliff . Its most prominent member has been Sir John McLeay , who was Speaker 1956-66.

Members

• Hon Egerton Batchelor (ALP) 1903-11
• David Gordon (Lib) 1911-13
• George Dankel (ALP, Nationalist) 1913-17
• William Story (Nationalist) 1917-22
• John Duncan-Hughes (Nationalist) 1922-28
• John Price (ALP, UAP) 1928-41
• Dr Grenfell Price (UAP) 1941-43
• Thomas Sheehy (ALP) 1943-49
• Hon Sir John McLeay (Liberal) 1949-66
• Hon John McLeay (Liberal) 1966-81
• Steele Hall (Liberal) 1981-96
• Dr Andrew Southcott (Liberal) 1996-