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Stuart Park was an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. One of the Legislative Assembly's original electorates, it was first contested at the 1974 election, and was abolished in 1983. It was named after the Darwin suburb of Stuart Park.
Members for Stuart Park
editMember | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Marshall Perron | Country Liberal | 1974–1983 |
Election results
editElections in the 1970s
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country Liberal | Marshall Perron | 557 | 33.0 | ||
Independent | William Fisher John McNamee |
646 | 38.3 | ||
Labor | Geoffrey Loveday | 486 | 28.8 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,689 | 95.5 | |||
Informal votes | 79 | 4.5 | |||
Turnout | 1,768 | 74.1 | |||
Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
Country Liberal | Marshall Perron | 763 | 50.2 | ||
Independent | 757 | 49.8 | |||
Country Liberal win | (new seat) |
- The number of votes each individual Independent received is unknown.
- The independent candidate that came second on preferences is unknown.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country Liberal | Marshall Perron | 652 | 40.7 | ||
Labor | Judith Muras | 491 | 30.7 | ||
Independent | Ernest Chin | 267 | 16.7 | ||
Progress | Kenneth Day | 191 | 11.9 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,601 | 97.8 | |||
Informal votes | 36 | 2.2 | |||
Turnout | 1,637 | 73.9 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Country Liberal | Marshall Perron | 902 | 56.3 | ||
Labor | Judith Muras | 699 | 43.7 | ||
Country Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country Liberal | Marshall Perron | 952 | 56.1 | +15.4 | |
Labor | Peter Cavanagh | 610 | 36.0 | +5.3 | |
Independent | Terry Wilson | 79 | 4.7 | +4.7 | |
Marijuana | John Duffy | 55 | 3.2 | +3.2 | |
Total formal votes | 1,696 | 97.9 | |||
Informal votes | 36 | 2.1 | |||
Turnout | 1,732 | 78.8 | |||
Country Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
- Preferences were not distributed.
References
edit- ^ a b 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) - ^ 1980 Legislative Assembly Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 7 June 1980