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Adam Carr's Election Archive
Commonwealth of Australia
Electoral Divisions of the House of Representatives
Division of Northern Territory

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The Division of Northern Territory was created in 1922 and abolished in 2001.

REDISTRIBUTIONS
1922: The whole of the Northern Territory

TWO-PARTY MAJORITIES

1922: Labor 00.4 *
1925: Labor 12.4
1928: Labor 25.2 *
1929: Labor unopposed
1931: Labor 05.7 *
1934: Independent 01.8 **
1937: Independent 02.0 *
1940: Independent 11.8 *
1943: Independent 02.6 **
1946: Independent 05.9 *
1949: Labor 02.7 *

1951: Labor 21.3
1954: Labor 22.6
1955: Labor unopposed
1958: Labor 23.9 *
1961: Labor 01.0 *
1963: Labor unopposed
1966: Country Party 01.7
1969: Country Party 09.2
1972: Country Party 04.5
1974: Country Party 02.7

1975: Country Liberal 04.9
1977: Country Liberal 02.5
1980: Country Liberal 01.2
1983: Labor 01.9
1984: Country Liberal 01.4
1987: Labor 02.2
1990: Labor 05.0
1993: Labor 05.3
1996: Country Liberal 00.4
1998: Labor 00.6

* Majority over independent
** Majority over Labor

ENROLMENTS


ELECTION RESULTS 1922-98
Click here to see full results for Northern Territory at every election between 1922 and 1998.

MEMBERS FOR NORTHERN TERRITORY

Harold Nelson (ALP) 1922-34
Adair Blain (Ind) 1934-49
John Nelson (ALP) 1949-66
Sam Calder (CP, NCP) 1966-80
Grant Tambling (NCP, NPA) 1980-83

John Reeves (ALP) 1983-84
Hon Paul Everingham (Lib) 1984-87
Hon Warren Snowdon (ALP) 1987-96
Hon Nick Dondas (NPA) 1996-98
Hon Warren Snowdon (ALP) 1998-2001


Harold Nelson (ALP) 1922-34 Adair Blain (Ind) 1934-49 John Nelson (ALP) 1949-66


Sam Calder (CP, NCP) 1966-80 Grant Tambling (NCP, NPA) 1980-83 John Reeves (ALP) 1983-84


Hon Paul Everingham (Lib) 1984-87 Hon Warren Snowdon (ALP) 1987-96 Hon Nick Dondas (NPA) 1996-98


Hon Warren Snowdon (ALP) 1998-2001


BOUNDARIES

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1922