Electoral division of Nhulunbuy

Nhulunbuy
Northern TerritoryLegislative Assembly

Electoral division of Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory
Territory Northern Territory
Created 1974
MP Lynne Walker
Party Australian Labor Party
Namesake Nhulunbuy
Electors 4,719 (2012)
Area 83,358 km2 (32,184.7 sq mi)
Demographic Remote

Nhulunbuy is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1974, and is named after the remote town of the same name. Nhulunbuy is a rural electorate on the Territory's northeast coast, covering 113,600 km² and taking in the towns of Nhulunbuy, Galiwinku, Yirrkala and Gapuwiyak. There were 4,719 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2012.

Nhulunbuy has traditionally been a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, which has held the seat without a break since 1980. Labor's dominance in the seat is mostly on the strength of strong support among indigenous voters; more than 50% of the electorate's population being indigenous. The only exception to the ALP's dominance was Milton Ballantyne, who won the seat for the Country Liberal Party in 1974 when the ALP won no seats in the Assembly. Ballantyne managed to hold on despite a strong swing to the ALP in 1977, before being easily beaten by the ALP's Dan Leo in 1980. Leo retired in 1990 and handed the seat to Syd Stirling, who went on to become deputy leader of Territory Labor, and as such became Deputy Chief Minister under Clare Martin from 2001 to 2008. Leo stood down in 2008 and was succeeded by current member Lynne Walker.

Members for Nhulunbuy

MemberPartyTerm
  Milton Ballantyne Country Liberal 1974–1980
  Dan Leo Labor 1980–1990
  Syd Stirling Labor 1990–2008
  Lynne Walker Labor 2008–present

Election results

Northern Territory general election, 2012: Nhulunbuy[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Lynne Walker 1,554 55.0 −19.1
Country Liberal Allen Fanning 641 22.7 −3.1
Independent Kendall Trudgen 629 22.3 +22.3
Total formal votes 2,824 95.4 −0.8
Informal votes 136 4.6 +0.8
Turnout 2,960 62.7 +2.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Lynne Walker 1,948 69.0 −5.2
Country Liberal Allen Fanning 876 31.0 +5.2
Labor hold Swing −5.2

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