Electoral division of Casuarina

Casuarina
Northern TerritoryLegislative Assembly

Location of Casuarina in the Darwin/Palmerston area
Territory Northern Territory
Created 1974
MP Lauren Moss
Party Australian Labor Party
Namesake Casuarina
Electors 5,481 (2014)
Area 18 km2 (6.9 sq mi)
Demographic Urban

Casuarina is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1974 and was named after the adjacent suburb of Casuarina. Casuarina is an entirely urban electorate, covering only 18 km² and taking in the suburbs of Brinkin, Nakara, Tiwi and part of Alawa, as well as the Charles Darwin University. There were 5,481 people enrolled in the electorate as of October 2014.

For the first three decades of its existence, Casuarina, like most seats in the Darwin area, was a stronghold for the Country Liberal Party. Clare Martin did nearly manage to take the seat for the Australian Labor Party upon the retirement of long-serving CLP member Nick Dondas in 1994, but lost out to the CLP's Peter Adamson, who held the seat for the next seven years. It was still widely presumed to be a safe Liberal seat in 2001, when it unexpectedly fell to Labor challenger Kon Vatskalis as part of Labor's sweep of the northern suburbs that year en route to winning government for the first time. Vatskalis easily retained the seat in 2005, 2008, and 2012. He resigned on 18 September 2014, which triggered a by-election.[1] It was won by Labor candidate Lauren Moss with a reduced margin.

Members for Casuarina

MemberPartyTerm
  Nick Dondas Country Liberal 1974–1994
  Peter Adamson Country Liberal 1994–2001
  Kon Vatskalis Labor 2001–2014
  Lauren Moss Labor 2014–present

Election results

Casuarina by-election, 18 October 2014[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Lauren Moss 1,579 42.1 −17.2
Country Liberal Harry Kypreos 1,525 40.6 −0.1
Greens Michael Conrad 412 11.0 +11.0
Independent George Mamouzellos 99 2.6 +2.6
Independent Trevor Jenkins 78 2.1 +2.1
Independent Jack Henderson 36 1.0 +1.0
CEC Trudy Campbell 25 0.7 +0.7
Total formal votes 3,754 96.6 −1.4
Informal votes 133 3.4 +1.4
Turnout 3,887 70.9 −15.0
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Lauren Moss 2,072 55.2 −4.1
Country Liberal Harry Kypreos 1,682 44.8 +4.1
Labor hold Swing −4.1

References

  1. Hind, Rick (30 July 2014). "Labor's Kon Vatskalis quits Northern Territory politics, by-election looms". ABC Local. Yahoo!. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  2. "Division of Casuarina Results". Northern Territory Electoral Commission. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  3. Green, Antony. "Casuarina by-election 2014". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 18 October 2014.

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