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Federal division, outer-metropolitan

# Makin

In South Australia.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tony_zappia.JPG?width=96)**Tony Zappia** Labor, Makin ](https://politics.computer/mp/tony-zappia)

About

## About Makin

Makin is a federal electoral division in the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, in the House of Representatives. It is held by Tony Zappia of the Australian Labor Party. The seat covers part of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield, the City of Salisbury and the City of Tea Tree Gully.

Created

Established in the South Australian redistribution of 3 September 1984

Named after

Norman Makin, MP and diplomat

Area

162 square kilometres

Sitting member

Tony Zappia, Australian Labor Party

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%5Fof%5FMakin), plus our own records. Sources last checked 11 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Makin whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Makin yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Makin are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

## Other divisions in South Australia

- [Adelaide](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/adelaide)
- [Barker](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/barker)
- [Boothby](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/boothby)
- [Grey](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/grey)
- [Hindmarsh](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/hindmarsh)
- [Kingston](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/kingston)
- [Mayo](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/mayo)
- [Spence](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/spence)
- [Sturt](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/sturt)

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