Electoral division of Blain

Blain
Northern TerritoryLegislative Assembly

Location of Blain in the Darwin/Palmerston area
Territory Northern Territory
Created 1997
MP Nathan Barrett
Party Country Liberal Party
Namesake Adair Blain
Electors 4,980 (2012)
Area 18 km2 (6.9 sq mi)
Demographic Urban

Blain is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1997 and is named after Adair Blain, the second member for the federal Northern Territory electorate, and the only Australian sitting federal MP to ever become a prisoner of war. Blain is an urban electorate, covering 18 km² and taking in the Palmerston suburbs of Moulden, Woodroffe, Zuccoli and the western half of Rosebery. There were 4,980 people enrolled within the electorate as of August 2012.

Palmerston has always been a staunchly conservative area, and all the electorates in the city have almost always been held by the Country Liberal Party. Blain has even amongst the Palmerston electorates been a particularly safe seat for the CLP, with successive members having little trouble being re-elected. This was further emphasised at the 2005 election, when Blain was one of only four CLP-held seats retained by the party after a landslide victory by the Australian Labor Party.

A 2014 Blain by-election was triggered as a result of the resignation of Terry Mills. Nathan Barrett retained the seat for the CLP despite a 10 percent swing.

Members for Blain

MemberPartyTerm
  Barry Coulter Country Liberal 1997–1999
  Terry Mills Country Liberal 1999–2014
  Nathan Barrett Country Liberal 2014–present

Election results

Northern Territory by-election, 2014: Blain[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Nathan Barrett 1,768 45.5 −16.0
Labor Geoff Bahnert 1,448 37.3 +3.7
Independent Matthew Cranitch 336 8.7 +8.7
Greens Sue McKinnon 275 7.1 +7.1
CEC Peter Flynn 56 1.4 +1.4
Total formal votes 3,883 95.5 −1.1
Informal votes 184 4.5 +1.1
Turnout 4,067 68.8 −14.4
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Nathan Barrett 2,067 53.2 −10.0
Labor Geoff Bahnert 1,816 46.8 +10.0
Country Liberal hold Swing −10.0

References

  1. Legislative Assembly By-Election - Blain, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 13 April 2014.
  2. 2014 Blain by-election results, ABC, 13 April 2014.

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