Electoral division of Stuart Park

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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.

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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]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Liberal Marshall Perron 55733.0
Independent William Fisher
John McNamee		64638.3
Labor Geoffrey Loveday48628.8
Total formal votes1,68995.5
Informal votes794.5
Turnout 1,76874.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Liberal Marshall Perron 76350.2
Independent 75749.8
Country Liberal win(new seat)
1977 Northern Territory general election: Stuart Park [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Liberal Marshall Perron 65240.7
Labor Judith Muras49130.7
Independent Ernest Chin26716.7
Progress Kenneth Day19111.9
Total formal votes1,60197.8
Informal votes362.2
Turnout 1,63773.9
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Marshall Perron 90256.3
Labor Judith Muras69943.7
Country Liberal hold Swing

Elections in the 1980s

1980 Northern Territory general election: Stuart Park [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Country Liberal Marshall Perron 95256.1+15.4
Labor Peter Cavanagh61036.0+5.3
Independent Terry Wilson794.7+4.7
Marijuana John Duffy553.2+3.2
Total formal votes1,69697.9
Informal votes362.1
Turnout 1,73278.8
Country Liberal hold Swing N/A

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References

  1. 1 2 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ 1980 Legislative Assembly Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 7 June 1980
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