Final NT election outcome
The Northern Territory election result has been declared, confirming the make-up of the new Parliament: 19 Labor, 4 County Liberals, and 2 independents.
The Country Liberal party has chosen Jodeen Carney as its leader and another woman, Fay Miller, as its deputy. Carney’s Alice Springs based seat of Araluen was the only seat to experience a swing to the Country Liberal Party at the recent election. Although that swing is explained in the following from Anthony Green.
Araluen was one of the new electorates created for the 1983 election when the Parliament was expanded. It has moved around over the years, originally covering central Alice Springs, shifting westwards for the 1987 and 1990 elections before returning to the centre in 1994. The electorate was held from 1986 until 2001 by former government Minister Eric Poole. On his retirement, two Independents contested the seat, well-known local councillor Meredith Campbell and ex-CLP candidate Tony Bohning. The CLP’s primary vote fell 27%, the swing after preferences was 17.1%, with new CLP candidate Jodeen Carney elected with a majority of only 134 votes.
The independents did not run in 2005, allowing Carney to recapture the CLP heartland.