Northern Territory general election, 1980

7 June 1980 (1980-06-07)

All 19 seats of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	Paul Everingham	Jon Isaacs
Party	Country Liberal	Labor
Leader since	13 August 1977	21 September 1977
Leader's seat	Jingili	Millner
Last election	12 seats	6 seats
Seats won	11 seats	7 seats
Seat change	1	1
Percentage	50.0%	39.4%
Swing	9.9	1.2

Chief Minister before election

Paul Everingham
Country Liberal

Elected Chief Minister

Paul Everingham
Country Liberal

A general election was held in the Northern Territory on Saturday June 7, 1980. It was the first to be held since self-government was attained two years earlier, and was won by the incumbent Country Liberal Party (CLP) under Chief Minister Paul Everingham.

Although the CLP's share of the vote increased by almost 10 percentage points, it lost one seat.

The only independent member of the Legislative Assembly, Dawn Lawrie, retained her seat of Nightcliff.

Results

Northern Territory general election, 7 June 1980^[1] Legislative Assembly << 1977 — 1983 >>
Enrolled voters		53,218
Votes cast		41,484		Turnout	78.0%	+2.1%
Informal votes		1,328		Informal	3.2%	0.0%
Summary of votes by party
Party		Primary votes	%	Swing	Seats	Change
	Country Liberal	28,637	50.0%	+9.9%	11	– 1
	Labor	15,818	39.4%	+1.2%	7	+ 1
	Independent	3,251	8.1%	–3.6%	1	± 0
	Democrats	352	0.9%	+0.9%	0	± 0
	Marijuana	272	0.7%	+0.7%	0	± 0
	Progress	210	0.5%	–9.3%	0	± 0
	Christian Democrat	188	0.5%	+0.5%	0	± 0
Total		40,156			19

Candidates

Sitting members are in bold. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour.

Electorate	Held by	Labor Candidate	CLP Candidate	Other Candidates

Alice Springs	CLP	Ted Hampton	Denis Collins	Rod Oliver (Ind) Dave Pollock (Ind)
Arnhem	Labor	Bob Collins	Gatjil Djerrkura	Mark McAleer (AMP)
Barkly	CLP	William Thomson	Ian Tuxworth	Neville Andrews (PP)
Casuarina	CLP	Dennis Bree	Nick Dondas	Klaus Roth (Dem)
Elsey	CLP	Maged Aboutaleb	Les MacFarlane	Patricia Davies (Ind) James Forscutt (Ind) Lawrence Hughes (Ind) R. T. Reilly (Ind)
Fannie Bay	Labor	Pam O'Neil	Ella Stack
Gillen	CLP	Rosalie McDonald	Jim Robertson
Jingili	CLP	Peter Hansen	Paul Everingham	Peter Read (Dem)
Ludmilla	CLP	Kay Spurr	Roger Steele	Roy Barden (Ind)
Macdonnell	Labor	Neville Perkins	Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
Millner	Labor	Jon Isaacs	John Robinson
Nhulunbuy	CLP	Dan Leo	Milton Ballantyne	Michael O'Reilly (Ind)
Nightcliff	Independent		Anne Amos	Charles Coombs (CDP) Dawn Lawrie (Ind)
Port Darwin	CLP	Jack Haritos	Tom Harris	Len Myles (Dem) Peter Taylor (AMP)
Sanderson	Labor	June D'Rozario	Daryl Manzie	Ron Mann (CDP)
Stuart	CLP	John Thomas	Roger Vale
Stuart Park	CLP	Peter Cavanagh	Marshall Perron	John Duffy (AMP) Terry Wilson (Ind)
Tiwi	CLP	Harry Maschke	Noel Padgham-Purich	Len McAlear (Ind) Jenny Smither (AMP)
Victoria River	Labor	Jack Doolan	John Millhouse	Bronte Douglass (Ind) Jack McCarthy (Ind)

References

↑ Wade-Marshall, Dean Jaensch, Deborah (1994). Point of order! : the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory 1974-1994. Darwin: Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. ISBN 0731520769.

Jaensch, Dean; Wade-Marshall, Deborah (1984). Northern Territory Electoral Atlas 1974–1984. Australian National University/Flinders University. ISBN 0959924698.

Elections and referendums in the Northern Territory

General elections	1974 1977 1980 1983 1987 1990 1994 1997 2001 2005 2008 2012 2016 2020 by-elections

Referendums	1998

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