- Ralph Clarke
Ralph Clarke is a former
Australia n politician. He was anAustralian Labor Party member of theSouth Australian House of Assembly between 1993 and 2002, representing the electorate of Ross Smith.Despite a secret ballot showing 60 of the 74 of the members of de-stacked local branches threw their support behind Clarke for 2002 preselection, but the state executive intervened to install
John Rau , a former colleague of Clarke's in the Centre Left faction who had made the switch to the Right. Clarke ran as an independent and did very well on 23.1%, however with the ALP vote of 39.5% and Liberal vote of 24.1%, he did not get in to the two party preferred race for election.Clarke contested an upper house seat under a banner of "Buy back ETSA" at the 2006 election but failed with only 0.1% of the vote, only 1115 votes.
In October 2007 Clarke was elected as an Area Councillor for the
City of Adelaide .External links
* [http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/Internet/DesktopModules/memberdrill.aspx?pid=624 Parliament Profile]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/elections/sa/2006/guide/enfi.htm ABC electorate profile]
* [http://www.pollbludger.com/sa2006/enfield.htm Poll Bludger article]
* [http://netk.net.au/Media/2003-07-09-EdithPringle.asp Ralph Clarke and Edith Pringle controversy]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/sa/content/2005/s1499431.htm Ralph Clarke and Michael Atkinson controversy]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200603/1582339.htm?elections/sa/2006/ Ralph Clarke runs as independent]
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