Electoral division of Daly

Daly
Northern TerritoryLegislative Assembly

Daly in the Northern Territory
Territory Northern Territory
Created 2001
MP Gary Higgins
Party Country Liberal Party
Namesake Daly River
Electors 5,386 (2016)
Area 81,818 km2 (31,590.1 sq mi)
Demographic Remote

Daly is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was created in 2001, and takes its name from the Daly River region which lies at the heart of the electorate. Daly covers some 81,818 km², encompassing the towns of Adelaide River, Acacia Hills, Batchelor, Dundee, Nauiyu Nambiyu, Pine Creek, Timber Creek and Wadeye. There were 5,329 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2012.

Daly is a relatively new electorate in the Northern Territory, having only been created in 2001. It replaced Victoria River, one of the Territory's original seats and best known as the seat of the Territory's first head of government, Goff Letts. It had been abolished when its namesake was moved out of the electorate by a redistribution. While Victoria River had been held by the Australian Labor Party in the past, Daly appeared on paper to be a safe seat for the Country Liberal Party, having been held easily by then-member Tim Baldwin. However, he retired at the 2005 election. While the CLP candidate, Debbi Aloisi, was widely predicted to succeed him, she was ultimately defeated by Labor challenger Rob Knight, who had lost badly to Baldwin in 2001. In the lead-up to the election, there had been almost no suggestion that Knight had any chance of defeating Aloisi. However, on election night the CLP primary vote almost halved, and Knight won on a two-party swing of 24.6 percent—almost unheard of in Australian politics—and turned Daly from a safe CLP seat into a safe Labor seat in one stroke. Knight actually took the seat without the need for preferences. He was re-elected in 2008, but was defeated by CLP candidate Gary Higgins in 2012.

Higgins narrowly weathered the massive Labor wave that swept through the Territory in 2016. He was one of only two CLP members returned at this election, and was named as leader of what remained of the CLP.

Members for Daly

MemberPartyTerm
  Tim Baldwin Country Liberal 2001–2005
  Rob Knight Labor 2005–2012
  Gary Higgins Country Liberal 2012–present

Election results

Northern Territory general election, 2016: Daly[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Country Liberal Gary Higgins 1,583 42.4 −9.2
Labor Anthony Venes 1,361 36.5 −2.1
1 Territory Joan Growden 246 6.6 +6.6
Independent Allan McKay 166 4.5 +4.5
Independent Regina McCarthy 128 3.4 +3.4
Independent Kevin Wanganeen 119 3.2 +3.2
Independent Thong Sum Lee 90 2.4 +2.4
CEC Ian Barry 37 1.0 +1.0
Total formal votes 3,730 97.5 +3.1
Informal votes 94 2.5 −3.1
Turnout 3,824 71.0 −2.4
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Gary Higgins 1,763 52.1 −3.1
Labor Anthony Venes 1,622 47.9 +3.1
Country Liberal hold Swing −3.1

References

  1. Daly – Electorate summary, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 9 September 2016

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