Electoral division of Daly

Daly is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was created in 2001, and takes its name from the Daly River region which lies at the heart of the electorate. Daly covers some 77,395 km², encompassing the towns of Adelaide River, Acacia Hills, Batchelor, Dundee Beach, Nauiyu Nambiyu, Pine Creek, Timber Creek and Wadeye. There were 5,622 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2020.

Daly
Northern TerritoryLegislative Assembly
Daly in the Northern Territory
TerritoryNorthern Territory
Created2001
MPIan Sloan
PartyCountry Liberals
NamesakeDaly River
Electors5,622 (2020)
Area77,395 km2 (29,882.4 sq mi)
DemographicRemote

Daly is a relatively new electorate in the Northern Territory, having only been created in 2001. It replaced Victoria River, one of the Territory's original seats and best known as the seat of the Territory's first head of government, Goff Letts. It had been abolished when its namesake was moved out of the electorate by a redistribution. While Victoria River had been held by the Labor Party in the past, Daly appeared on paper to be a safe seat for the Country Liberal Party, having been held easily by then-member Tim Baldwin. However, he retired at the 2005 election. While the CLP candidate, Debbi Aloisi, was widely predicted to succeed him, she was ultimately defeated by Labor challenger Rob Knight, who had lost badly to Baldwin in 2001. In the lead-up to the election, there had been almost no suggestion that Knight had any chance of defeating Aloisi. However, on election night the CLP primary vote almost halved, and Knight won on a two-party swing of 24.6 percent—almost unheard of in Australian politics—and turned Daly from a safe CLP seat into a safe Labor seat in one stroke. Knight actually took the seat without the need for preferences. He was re-elected in 2008, but was defeated by CLP candidate Gary Higgins in 2012.

Higgins narrowly weathered the massive Labor wave that swept through the Territory in 2016. He was one of only two CLP members returned at this election, and was named as leader of what remained of the CLP. He retired in 2020, and was succeeded by Ian Sloan, also of the CLP.

Members for Daly

MemberPartyTerm
  Tim Baldwin Country Liberal 2001–2005
  Rob Knight Labor 2005–2012
  Gary Higgins Country Liberal 2012–2020
  Ian Sloan Country Liberal 2020–present

Election results

2020 Northern Territory general election: Daly[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Ian Sloan 1,386 35.8 −6.1
Labor Anthony Venes 1,321 34.1 −2.7
Territory Alliance Regina McCarthy 708 18.3 +18.3
Greens Will Kemp 324 8.4 +8.4
Independent Mick Denigan 135 3.5 +3.5
Total formal votes 3,874 93.8 N/A
Informal votes 257 6.2 N/A
Turnout 4,131 73.5 N/A
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Ian Sloan 1,984 51.2 −0.5
Labor Anthony Venes 1,890 48.8 +0.5
Country Liberal hold Swing−0.5

References

  1. "Electorate summary: Daly". NTEC. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  2. "Daly". ABC Elections. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 September 2020.

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