List of Northern Territory by-elections
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This is a list of Northern Territory by-elections, with the names of the departing and new members and their respective parties.

Gains for the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
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 are highlighted in red; for the Country Liberal Party
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

  in blue; for the Northern Territory Nationals
Northern Territory Nationals
The Northern Territory Nationals were a political party active in the Northern Territory in the late 1980s. The party was not affiliated with the National Party of Australia, whose NT affiliate was Country Liberal Party...

 in green; and for others in grey.
By-election Date Incumbent | Party Winner | Party Cause
Alice Springs 1976 Bernie Kilgariff
Bernie Kilgariff
Bernard Francis "Bernie" Kilgariff AM was an Australian politician. He was one of the founders of the Country Liberal Party and served as a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly before being elected to the Australian Senate.-Early life:Kilgariff was born in Adelaide, South...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Eric Manuell
Eric Manuell
George Eric Manuell is a former Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for Alice Springs in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1976 to 1977.-References:...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Resignation (contested Senate
Australian Senate
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MacDonnell 1981 Neville Perkins
Neville Perkins
Neville George Perkins OAM, , is an Australian politician and public servant.-Early life:Perkins is a descendant of the Eastern and Central Arunta peoples who was born and bred at Mbantua, Alice Springs. He attended Newington College , commencing in the preparatory school, Wyvern House...

  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Neil Bell
Neil Bell (Australian politician)
Neil Randal Bell is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for MacDonnell in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1981 to 1997. A teacher before entering politics, Bell organised opposition to Chief Minister Marshall Perron's bill to legalise euthanasia in...

  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Resignation
Millner 1981 Jon Isaacs
Jon Isaacs
Jonathan Martin "Jon" Isaacs is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Millner in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1981, and was the ALP's first leader in that body and the Territory's first Opposition Leader.The Electorate of Millner was named after Dr...

  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Terry Smith
Terry Smith (politician)
Terry Smith was a member of Australia's Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, representing Millner. The Electorate was named after Dr James Millner, the medical officer in Goyder's 1869 expedition to found the first colony at Port Darwin, who drowned in the SS Gothenburg tragedy...

  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Resignation
Jingili 1984 Paul Everingham
Paul Everingham
Paul Anthony Edward Everingham AO was the first Chief Minister of the Northern Territory of Australia when it was granted self-government in 1978....

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Rick Setter
Rick Setter
Richard Alfred "Rick" Setter is a former Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for Jingili in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1997.-References:...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Resignation (contested HoR
Australian House of Representatives
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Araluen 1986 Jim Robertson
Jim Robertson (politician)
James Murray "Jim" Robertson is a former Australian politician. He was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1974 to 1986, representing Gillen until 1983 and Araluen thereafter.-References:...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Eric Poole
Eric Poole (Australian politician)
Eric Houguet Poole is a former Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for Araluen in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1986 to 2001.-References:...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Resignation
Barkly 1987 Ian Tuxworth
Ian Tuxworth
Ian Lindsay Tuxworth is an Australian politician, who was Chief Minister of the Northern Territory of Australia from 17 October 1984 until he resigned on 10 May 1986....

  NT Nationals
Northern Territory Nationals
The Northern Territory Nationals were a political party active in the Northern Territory in the late 1980s. The party was not affiliated with the National Party of Australia, whose NT affiliate was Country Liberal Party...

Ian Tuxworth
Ian Tuxworth
Ian Lindsay Tuxworth is an Australian politician, who was Chief Minister of the Northern Territory of Australia from 17 October 1984 until he resigned on 10 May 1986....

  NT Nationals
Northern Territory Nationals
The Northern Territory Nationals were a political party active in the Northern Territory in the late 1980s. The party was not affiliated with the National Party of Australia, whose NT affiliate was Country Liberal Party...

Election declared void
Flynn 1988 Ray Hanrahan
Ray Hanrahan
Raymond Allan "Ray" Hanrahan is a former Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for Flynn in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1983 to 1988.-References:...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Enzo Floreani
Enzo Floreani
Enzo Alido Floreani is a former Australian politician. He was the member for Flynn in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1988 to 1990, as a member of Ian Tuxworth's NT Nationals party. Elected in a 1988 by-election, he and Tuxworth were the only representatives of the NT Nationals to...

 
  NT Nationals
Northern Territory Nationals
The Northern Territory Nationals were a political party active in the Northern Territory in the late 1980s. The party was not affiliated with the National Party of Australia, whose NT affiliate was Country Liberal Party...

Resignation
Wanguri  1989 Don Dale
Don Dale
Donald Francis "Don" Dale was an Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for Wanguri in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1983 to 1989, when he resigned due to ill health....

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

John Bailey
John Bailey (Australian politician)
John Derek Bailey is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Wanguri in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1989 to 1999. Bailey was Deputy Opposition Leader to Maggie Hickey, but was succeeded by Syd Stirling when Clare Martin became Labor leader. He resigned...

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Resignation (ill health)
Millner  1991 Terry Smith
Terry Smith (politician)
Terry Smith was a member of Australia's Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, representing Millner. The Electorate was named after Dr James Millner, the medical officer in Goyder's 1869 expedition to found the first colony at Port Darwin, who drowned in the SS Gothenburg tragedy...

  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Ken Parish
Ken Parish
Kenneth Alan "Ken" Parish is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Millner in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1991 to 1994....

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Resignation
Arafura  1992 Stan Tipiloura
Stan Tipiloura
Stanley Gabriel "Stan" Tipiloura was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Arafura in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1987 until his death in 1992....

  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Maurice Rioli
Maurice Rioli
Maurice Rioli was an Australian rules football player best known for his time spent with the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League...

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Death
Fannie Bay  1995 Marshall Perron
Marshall Perron
Marshall Bruce Perron is a former Australian politician, who was a Country Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory from the formation of the Assembly in 1974 until his resignation in 1995. From 1988 to 1995, Perron was the Chief Minister of the Northern...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Clare Martin
Clare Martin
Clare Majella Martin is a former Australian politician. She is the current CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service . A former journalist, she was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in a shock by-election win in 1995...

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Resignation
Arnhem  1995 Wes Lanhupuy
Wes Lanhupuy
Wesley Wagner "Wes" Lanhupuy was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Arnhem in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1983 to his death in 1995.-References:...

  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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John Ah Kit
John Ah Kit
John Leonard Ah Kit is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Arnhem in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 2005....

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Death
Arafura  1996 Brian Ede
Brian Ede
Brian Richard Ede is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Stuart in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1983 to 1996 and led Labor unsuccessfully to the 1994 territory election.-References:...

  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Peter Toyne
Peter Toyne
Dr Peter Howard Toyne is a former Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2006, representing the rural electorate of Stuart. He served as Attorney-General under Chief Minister Clare Martin, and for some years was...

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Resignation
Blain 1999 Barry Coulter
Barry Coulter
Barry Francis Coulter is a former Australian politician. He was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1983 to 1999, representing the electorates of Berrimah, Palmerston and Blain. He was Deputy Chief Minister from 1986 to 1995 under Stephen Hatton and...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Terry Mills
Terry Mills (politician)
Terrence Kennedy Mills is the current Country Liberal Party leader and opposition leader in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 29 January 2008...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Resignation
Wanguri  1999 John Bailey
John Bailey (Australian politician)
John Derek Bailey is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Wanguri in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1989 to 1999. Bailey was Deputy Opposition Leader to Maggie Hickey, but was succeeded by Syd Stirling when Clare Martin became Labor leader. He resigned...

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Paul Henderson
Paul Henderson (Australian politician)
Paul Raymond Henderson is an Australian politician and the current Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.Henderson was born in Croix-Chapeau, France, where his father was serving with the United States military. He was educated in Great Britain to A-Levels and studied mechanical...

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Resignation
Port Darwin 2000 Shane Stone
Shane Stone
Shane Leslie Stone AC, QC is an Australian political figure. From 26 May 1995 to 8 February 1999 he was Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, representing the Country Liberal Party.-Biography:Stone was born in Bendigo, Victoria...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Sue Carter
Sue Carter
Susan Jill Carter is an Australian politician. She was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2005, representing the central Darwin electorate of Port Darwin...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Resignation
Katherine 2003 Mike Reed
Mike Reed (politician)
Michael Anthony "Mike" Reed is a former Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for Katherine in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 2003. He was Deputy Chief Minister in the governments of Shane Stone and Denis Burke; following the CLP's election loss...

  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Fay Miller
Fay Miller
Christina Fay Miller is a former Australian politician. She was the Country Liberal Party member for Katherine in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2003 to 2008.Miller was born in South Australia, moving to Katherine in 1989...

 
  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Resignation
Stuart  2006 Peter Toyne
Peter Toyne
Dr Peter Howard Toyne is a former Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2006, representing the rural electorate of Stuart. He served as Attorney-General under Chief Minister Clare Martin, and for some years was...

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Karl Hampton
Karl Hampton
Karl Rio Hampton is an Australian politician. He is a Labor member for Stuart in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, having won the seat in a 2006 by-election. He is the Minister for Environment, Regional Development, Sport and Recreation, Central Australia and Information, Communications...

 
  Labor
Australian Labor Party
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Resignation (medical reasons)
Greatorex
Greatorex by-election, 2007
The Greatorex by-election, 2007 was a by-election held on 28 July 2007 for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly electorate of Greatorex in Alice Springs....

28 July 2007 Richard Lim
Richard Lim
Richard Soon Huat Lim is a former Australian politician. He was the Country Liberal Party member for Greatorex in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1994 until his resignation in 2007....

 
  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Matt Conlan
Matt Conlan
Matthew Escott "Matt" Conlan is an Australian politician. He is a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, having won his seat of Greatorex in a 2007 by-election. He is currently Shadow Minister for Health, Central Australia and Alcohol Policy.-References:...

 
  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Resignation (family reasons)
Araluen
Araluen by-election, 2010
A by-election for the seat of Araluen in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly was held on 9 October 2010. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Country Liberal Party member Jodeen Carney on 3 September 2010 due to ill health. The seat has been held by the CLP since the seat's...

9 October 2010 Jodeen Carney
Jodeen Carney
Jodeen Terese Carney is an Australian politician. She was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from September 2001 to September 2010, representing the Alice Springs-based electorate of Araluen...

 
  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Robyn Lambley
Robyn Lambley
Robyn Jane Lambley is an Australian politician. She was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly representing the division of Araluen for the Country Liberal Party in a 2010 by-election following the resignation of Jodeen Carney.Lambley was born in Grafton, New South Wales, and moved...

 
  Country Liberal
Country Liberal Party
The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...

Resignation (ill health)


See also

  • Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
    Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
    The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory is the unicameral parliament of the Northern Territory in Australia. It sits in Parliament House, located on State Square, close to the centre of the city of Darwin.-History:...

  • Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
    Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
    Following are lists of members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly:* Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, 1974–1977 * Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, 1977–1980...

  • Northern Territory ministries
    Northern Territory ministries
    The ministries of the Northern Territory are appointed by the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory each term from the members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.-List of Northern Territory ministries:-See also:...

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