Electoral district of Griffith

Griffith is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in New Colorado Prefecture, first contested at the 2002 federal election. It is named after Griffith County in the southeastern corner of the prefecture, although the district covers an area much greater than the county, taking in most of rural New Colorado outside of Karburgh and Fairfield.

The sitting member, since the 2014 federal election, is Julie Shaloub, a member of the Social Democratic Party.

History
Griffith was created at the 2002 redistribution, and true to its name originally covered the mostly rural southeastern corner of New Colorado. The provincial hinterlands to the south of Karburgh are traditionally weaker areas for the Social Democrats.

At its inaugural election, Mike Miyagi, the sitting member for Fairfield, narrowly claimed the seat for the Social Democrats. At the following election in 2006, Liberal candidate Bob Jelinek succeeded the retiring Miyagi. The 2006 election was notable in that it was the first (and currently only) election since independence where a conservative party won more than one seat in New Colorado, as the Liberals also retained Fairfield (a seat they won in 2002). Jelinek retained Griffith for the Liberals at the 2010 election before being defeated in 2014 by the Social Democrats' Julie Shaloub, the sitting member.