Electoral division of Fong Lim

Fong Lim is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory.

Fong Lim
Northern Territory—Legislative Assembly
Location of Fong Lim in the Darwin/Palmerston area
TerritoryNorthern Territory
Created2008
MPMark Monaghan
PartyLabor Party
NamesakeAlec Fong Lim
Electors5,555 (2020)
Area31 km2 (12.0 sq mi)
DemographicUrban

The district is named after Alec Fong Lim, Lord Mayor of Darwin from 1984 to 1990. There were 5,555 people enrolled in the division in August 2020.

The seat is currently held by Mark Monaghan of the Labor Party.

Geography

Fong Lim is located in the suburban corridor south of the Stuart Highway in Darwin. It takes in the suburbs of Bayview, Stuart Park, Woolner and The Narrows, and parts of Coconut Grove and Ludmilla.

History

Fong Lim largely replaced the abolished seat of Millner, and was renamed in honour of former Darwin Lord Mayor Alec Fong Lim. It was first contested at the 2008 election. Based on the results of the previous election, it was calculated to have a Labor majority of 61.5% to 38.5% versus the Liberal Party. It was contested by the incumbent member for Millner, Labor MP Matthew Bonson, who lost to the Country Liberal Party's candidate, former federal MP Dave Tollner, on a swing of 13 percent. Tollner was reelected in 2012 as the CLP won government.

However, a redistribution ahead of the 2016 election dramatically altered Fong Lim. Virtually all of the eastern portion of the seat was transferred to the new seat of Spillett, making Fong Lim a more compact Darwin-based seat. This all but erased the CLP majority in the seat, reducing it to an extremely marginal 0.2 percent. Tollner tried to win CLP preselection for Spillett, but lost to Lia Finocchiaro. Meanwhile, Jeff Collins won the seat for Labor on a swing of over eight percent. Collins was expelled from his party in 2018. Two years later, he joined the Territory Alliance, but came in third in the 2020 general election as Labor's Mark Monaghan won back the seat.

Members for Fong Lim
MemberPartyTerm
  Dave Tollner Country Liberal 2008–2016
  Jeff Collins Labor 2016–2018
  Independent 2018–2020
  Territory Alliance 2020
  Mark Monaghan Labor 2020–present

Election results
See also: Electoral results for the division of Fong Lim
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Northern Territory general election § Fong Lim[edit]
2020 Northern Territory general election: Fong Lim[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Mark Monaghan 1,756 42.1 −1.9
Country Liberal Kylie Bonanni 1,488 35.6 −2.3
Territory Alliance Jeff Collins 497 11.9 +11.9
Independent Amye Un 434 10.4 +10.4
Total formal votes 4,175 97.0 N/A
Informal votes 130 3.0 N/A
Turnout 4,305 77.5 N/A
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Mark Monaghan 2,197 52.6 −3.0
Country Liberal Kylie Bonanni 1,978 47.4 +3.0
Labor hold Swing−3.0

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

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