Electoral results for the division of Victoria River

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral division of Victoria River in Northern Territory elections.

Members for Victoria River
MemberPartyTerm
  Goff Letts Country Liberal 1974–1977
  Jack Doolan Labor 1977–1983
  Terry McCarthy Country Liberal 1983–1990
  Gary Cartwright Labor 1990–1994
  Tim Baldwin Country Liberal 1994–2001

Election results

Elections in the 1970s
1974 Northern Territory general election: Victoria River[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Goff Letts 717 69.7
Independent Wiyendji Nunggula
Charles Renfrey		 312 30.3
Total formal votes 1,029 94.4
Informal votes 61 5.6
Turnout 1,090 62.6
Country Liberal win (new seat)
  • Preferences were not distributed.
  • The number of votes each individual Independent received is unknown.
1977 Northern Territory general election: Victoria River[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Doolan 690 50.0
Country Liberal Goff Letts 589 42.7
Progress Frank Favaro 100 7.3
Total formal votes 1,379 95.8
Informal votes 61 4.2
Turnout 1,440 67.7
Labor gain from Country Liberal Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1980s
1980 Northern Territory general election: Victoria River[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Jack Doolan 872 52.6 +2.6
Country Liberal John Millhouse 606 36.6 -6.1
Independent Bronte Douglass 98 5.9 +5.9
Independent Jack McCarthy 82 5.0 +5.0
Total formal votes 1,658 94.8
Informal votes 91 5.2
Turnout 1,749 72.6
Labor hold SwingN/A
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1983 Northern Territory general election: Victoria River[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Terry McCarthy 615 38.1
Labor Dennis Bree 425 26.3
Country Liberal Ronald Wright 326 20.2
Democrats Maurie Ryan 155 9.6
Independent Labor Jack Doolan 95 5.9
Total formal votes 1,616 92.8
Informal votes 125 7.2
Turnout 1,741 75.8
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Terry McCarthy 1,053 65.2
Labor Dennis Bree 563 34.9
Country Liberal gain from Independent Labor Swing
1987 Northern Territory general election: Victoria River[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Terry McCarthy 936 58.4
Labor Leon White 466 29.1
NT Nationals Ronald Wright 130 8.1
Independent Lance Lawrence 71 4.4
Total formal votes 1,603 94.9
Informal votes 86 5.1
Turnout 1,689 65.2
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Terry McCarthy 1,072 66.9 +2.9
Labor Leon White 531 33.1 -2.9
Country Liberal hold Swing+2.9

Elections in the 1990s
1990 Northern Territory general election: Victoria River[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Gary Cartwright 1,252 51.5 +11.0
Country Liberal Stephen Dunham 1,181 48.5 -11.0
Total formal votes 2,433 97.0
Informal votes 74 3.0
Turnout 2,507 73.6
Labor gain from Country Liberal Swing+11.5
1994 Northern Territory general election: Victoria River[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Tim Baldwin 1,380 50.8 +2.3
Labor Gary Cartwright 1,148 42.2 -9.3
Independent John Noble 191 7.0 +7.0
Total formal votes 2,719 95.9
Informal votes 116 4.1
Turnout 2,835 73.0
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Tim Baldwin 1,480 54.4 +5.9
Labor Gary Cartwright 1,239 45.6 -5.9
Country Liberal gain from Labor Swing+5.9
1997 Northern Territory general election: Victoria River[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Tim Baldwin 1,771 66.1 +15.4
Labor Paul La Fontaine 909 33.9 -8.3
Total formal votes 2,680 93.3
Informal votes 193 6.7
Turnout 2,873 69.0
Country Liberal hold Swing+12.1

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
  3. "Legislative Assembly General Election 1983" (PDF). Northern Territory Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  4. 1987 Legislative Assembly Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 7 March 1987
  5. Jaensch, Dean (1990). The 1990 elections in the Northern Territory : a statistical analysis. Klemzig, S. Aust.: Polity Publications. ISBN 0949094803.
  6. 1990 Legislative Election Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission
  7. 1994 Legislative Election Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission
  8. "General assembly results" (PDF). ntec.nt.gov.au. 1997. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  9. "General assembly results" (PDF). psephos.adam-carr.net. 30 August 1997. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
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