Alice Springs Northern Territory—Legislative Assembly | |
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Territory | Northern Territory |
Created | 1947 (Legislative Council) 1974 (Legislative Assembly) |
Namesake | Alice Springs |
Alice Springs was an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. Originally created for the Legislative Council in 1947, the seat had 735 electors and elected a single member. It became one of the Legislative Assembly's original electorates and was contested at the 1974 election, and was named after the town of Alice Springs. It was abolished in 1983 and replaced by the new seats of Araluen, Braitling and Sadadeen.
Members for Alice Springs
Legislative Council
Member | Party | Term | |
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Lionel Rose | Independent | 1962–1965 | |
North Australia | 1965 | ||
Charles Orr | Labor | 1965–1971 |
Legislative Assembly
Member | Party | Term | |
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Bernie Kilgariff | Country Liberal | 1974–1975 | |
Eric Manuell | Country Liberal | 1976–1977 | |
Rod Oliver | Country Liberal | 1977–1979 | |
Independent | 1979–1980 | ||
Denis Collins | Country Liberal | 1980–1983 |
Election results
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Country Liberal | Bernie Kilgariff | 1,319 | 72.2 | N/A | |
Labor | Jean Leunig | 377 | 20.6 | N/A | |
Independent | Alan Gray | 131 | 7.2 | N/A | |
Total formal votes | 1,827 | 94.5 | N/A | ||
Informal votes | 106 | 5.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 1,933 | 75.7 | N/A | ||
Country Liberal win | (new seat) | ||||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Country Liberal | Eric Manuell | 874 | 53.2 | -19.0 | |
Labor | Piper | 602 | 36.6 | +16.0 | |
Independent | Alan Gray | 168 | 10.2 | +3.0 | |
Total formal votes | 1,644 | 97.2 | +2.7 | ||
Informal votes | 48 | 2.8 | -2.7 | ||
Turnout | 1,692 | 66.2 | -9.5 | ||
Country Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Country Liberal | Rod Oliver | 929 | 51.1 | N/A | |
Labor | Rosalie McDonald | 644 | 35.4 | N/A | |
Progress | Brian Evans | 245 | 13.5 | N/A | |
Total formal votes | 1,818 | 96.9 | N/A | ||
Informal votes | 59 | 3.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 1,877 | 73.0 | N/A | ||
Country Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
- Preferences were not distributed.
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Country Liberal | Denis Collins | 999 | 43.8 | -7.3 | |
Independent | Rod Oliver | 620 | 27.1 | +27.1 | |
Labor | Ted Hampton | 505 | 22.1 | -13.3 | |
Independent | Dave Pollock | 158 | 7.1 | +7.1 | |
Total formal votes | 2,282 | 97.4 | N/A | ||
Informal votes | 60 | 2.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,342 | 78.0 | N/A | ||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Country Liberal | Denis Collins | 1,170 | 51.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Rod Oliver | 1,112 | 48.7 | N/A | |
Country Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
References
- 1 2 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.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ 1976 Alice Springs By-Election Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 7 February 1976
- ↑ 1980 Legislative Assembly Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 7 June 1980
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