13 Facts About Tony Piccolo

Tony Piccolo is currently serving as the Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly, a position he held between 2011 and 2013.

Tony Piccolo was born in Naples, Italy, and emigrated to Australia in 1963 with his parents.

Tony Piccolo was educated at Evanston Primary School, Gawler High School and the University of Adelaide, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics.

Tony Piccolo was elected to the District Council of Munno Para in 1981, then became a councillor for the Town of Gawler from 1985 to 2006, serving as deputy mayor with a few short breaks from 1989 to 2000 and as mayor from 2000 to 2006.

Tony Piccolo won Light at the 2006 election with a 52.1 percent two-party-preferred vote from a swing of 4.9 points against the incumbent Liberal member, Malcolm Buckby.

Tony Piccolo was only the second Labor member ever to win this traditionally conservative seat, and the first in 62 years.

Tony Piccolo increased his vote to 55.3 percent at the 2010 election and became the first Labor MP to be re-elected to Light.

Tony Piccolo's victory ran counter not only to the statewide trend, but decades of voting patterns in the seat.

Tony Piccolo's victory was critical to allowing Labor to retain a bare majority of two seats even as it lost the two-party vote.

Light was redistributed significantly ahead of the 2014 election, but Tony Piccolo retained the seat, again against the statewide trend with an unchanged two-party vote of 52.8 percent.

In 2018, Tony Piccolo took 59.9 percent of the two-party vote, just on the edge of making Light a safe Labor seat.

In 2010, Tony Piccolo was aligned with the Labor Left faction.

Tony Piccolo announced his resignation from cabinet on 12 January 2016, citing cabinet renewal, and confirmed he intended to re-contest his seat at the 2018 election.