Electoral district of Taiping

Taiping is an electoral district of the Enderronian Parliament in Longshan Prefecture, first contested at the 1990 federal election. Its name is derived from the Chinese name for the Pacific Ocean, 太平洋 (Tàipíng Yáng). It covers a narrow strip of territory on Longshan's northern coast.

The sitting member, since the 2006 federal election, is Phillip Wilkie, a member of the Liberal Party.

History
Taiping was created in the 1990 redistribution, largely replacing the electorate of Longshan North. When originally created, it stretched from the outer western suburbs of Chung'an to the Flinders border. While the North Coast of Longshan is a rural and traditionally conservative area, it was no match for the Social Democratic bent of Chung'an's working-class western suburbs, making it a fairly safe Social Democratic seat.

The 1998 redistribution moved Taiping almost completely out of the Chung'an metropolitan area, turning it into a marginal seat in the process. Inaugural member Luke Munro, of the Social Democrats, narrowly lost the seat to the Conservative Party's Daniel S. Kelly at the 1998 federal election.

The Conservatives' hold on the seat was short-lived. Kelly resigned in June 1999 after admitting to lying to an Independent Commission Against Corruption hearing regarding allegations that he may have breached electoral funding laws. The resulting by-election is notable in that the governing Social Democrats won the seat back from the Conservative Party, making it one of the few federal by-elections in Enderronian history at which the government has won a seat from the opposition; the previous occurrence had been at the 1972 Brooklyn by-election.

David Lui held the seat for the Social Democrats until he was defeated by Liberal Party candidate Phillip Wilkie at the 2006 federal election; Wilkie has held it since.