Electoral division of Stuart Park

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
MemberPartyTerm
  Marshall Perron Country Liberal 1974–1983

Election results

Elections in the 1970s
1974 Northern Territory general election: Stuart Park[1]
Party 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.
1977 Northern Territory general election: Stuart Park[1]
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
1980 Northern Territory general election: Stuart Park[2]
Party 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 SwingN/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.

References
  1. 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.
  2. 1980 Legislative Assembly Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 7 June 1980
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