Leon Bignell

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Leon William Kennedy Bignell (born 1966), Australian politician, is the member for Mawson for the Australian Labor Party. He finished ahead of incumbent Liberal member Robert Brokenshire by 3.9% on first preference and 2.2% of two party preferred in the 2006 state election, delivering the seat to Labor for the first time since it was lost in the 1993 election landslide. As of the 2010 state election, Bignell holds Mawson with a margin of 4.4 percent.

Previous to his entry into parliament he was a high-profile ABC sports reporter and more recently a media adviser to Pat Conlon.

Bignell is affectionately known as "Biggles" in media circles, and was once caught drawing caricatures of his Opposition colleagues while in the chamber.^[1] Bignell was engaged to Labor colleague and member for Bright Chloë Fox between March 2006 and March 2007.^[2]

References

↑ Duffy, Mike (25 October 2006). "Biggles' doodles waste oodles of time". The Advertiser. Retrieved 2006-10-25.
↑ "Trackside at the Cup: Russian to conclusions?". The Advertiser. 13 March 2007. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)

External links

Parliament Profile

v t e Current Members of the South Australian House of Assembly

Labor (26)	Michael Atkinson Frances Bedford Zoe Bettison Leon Bignell Lyn Breuer Paul Caica Susan Close Patrick Conlon Chloë Fox Robyn Geraghty John Hill Tom Kenyon Steph Key Tom Koutsantonis Michael O'Brien Lee Odenwalder Tony Piccolo Grace Portolesi Jennifer Rankine John Rau Alan Sibbons Jack Snelling Gay Thompson Leesa Vlahos Jay Weatherill Michael Wright

Liberal (18)	Vickie Chapman Iain Evans John Gardner Mark Goldsworthy Steven Griffiths Martin Hamilton-Smith Duncan McFetridge Steven Marshall Adrian Pederick Michael Pengilly David Pisoni Isobel Redmond Rachel Sanderson Peter Treloar Dan van Holst Pellekaan Ivan Venning Tim Whetstone Mitch Williams

Independents (3)	Geoff Brock Don Pegler Bob Such

Persondata
Name	Bignell, Leon
Alternative names
Short description	Australian politician
Date of birth	1966
Place of birth	Mount Gambier
Date of death
Place of death

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