This district is named after Doris Irene Taylor MBE, a leading force in the founding of Meals on Wheels, and Labor activist.

A large portion of the district lives in the western half of the City of Playford and it is regarded as a safe Labor seat.

Taylor was created for the 1993 state election between the northern metropolitan seat of Ramsay and rural Goyder, and was won by the defeated Labor Premier Lynn Arnold.

Following the redistribution of 2003 the northern boundary of the district was Light River and it sketched from the Gulf of St Vincent in the west to Lewiston and Reeves Plains in the North East, Curtis Road in the City of Playford to the East, to the outer northern suburbs of Burton, Direk and parts of Paralowie and Salisbury North to the South.

A portion of Munno Para West within the City of Playford from the Electoral district of Light was added.