1980 Northern Territory general election

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.

1980 Northern Territory general election
7 June 1980 (1980-06-07)
All 19 seats of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout78.0 ( 2.1 pp)
  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 7
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 20,065 15,818
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

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.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.