Electoral division of Alice Springs

Alice Springs
Northern Territory—Legislative Assembly
TerritoryNorthern Territory
Created1947 (Legislative Council)
1974 (Legislative Assembly)
NamesakeAlice Springs

Alice Springs was an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. Originally created for the Legislative Council in 1947, the seat had 735 electors and elected a single member. It became one of the Legislative Assembly's original electorates and was contested at the 1974 election, and was named after the town of Alice Springs. It was abolished in 1983 and replaced by the new seats of Araluen, Braitling and Sadadeen.

Members for Alice Springs

Legislative Council

Member Party Term
  Lionel Rose Independent 1962–1965
  North Australia 1965
  Charles Orr Labor 1965–1971

Legislative Assembly

Member Party Term
  Bernie Kilgariff Country Liberal 1974–1975
  Eric Manuell Country Liberal 1976–1977
  Rod Oliver Country Liberal 1977–1979
  Independent 1979–1980
  Denis Collins Country Liberal 1980–1983

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1974 Northern Territory general election: Alice Springs[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Bernie Kilgariff 1,319 72.2 N/A
Labor Jean Leunig 377 20.6 N/A
Independent Alan Gray 131 7.2 N/A
Total formal votes 1,827 94.5 N/A
Informal votes 106 5.5 N/A
Turnout 1,933 75.7 N/A
Country Liberal win (new seat)
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1976 Alice Springs by-election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Eric Manuell 874 53.2 −19.0
Labor Piper 602 36.6 +16.0
Independent Alan Gray 168 10.2 +3.0
Total formal votes 1,644 97.2 +2.7
Informal votes 48 2.8 −2.7
Turnout 1,692 66.2 −9.5
Country Liberal hold Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.
1977 Northern Territory general election: Alice Springs[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Rod Oliver 929 51.1 N/A
Labor Rosalie McDonald 644 35.4 N/A
Progress Brian Evans 245 13.5 N/A
Total formal votes 1,818 96.9 N/A
Informal votes 59 3.1 N/A
Turnout 1,877 73.0 N/A
Country Liberal hold Swing
  • Preferences were not distributed.

Elections in the 1980s

1980 Northern Territory general election: Alice Springs[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Denis Collins 999 43.8 −7.3
Independent Rod Oliver 620 27.1 +27.1
Labor Ted Hampton 505 22.1 −13.3
Independent Dave Pollock 158 7.1 +7.1
Total formal votes 2,282 97.4 N/A
Informal votes 60 2.6 N/A
Turnout 2,342 78.0 N/A
Two-candidate-preferred result
Country Liberal Denis Collins 1,170 51.3 N/A
Independent Rod Oliver 1,112 48.7 N/A
Country Liberal hold Swing N/A

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ 1976 Alice Springs By-Election Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 7 February 1976
  3. ^ 1980 Legislative Assembly Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 7 June 1980