Electoral results for the division of Namatjira

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

Member		Party	Term
	Alison Anderson	Country Liberal	2012–2014
		Independent	2014
		Palmer United	2014
		Independent	2014–2016
	Chansey Paech	Labor	2016–2020
	Bill Yan	Country Liberal	2020–present

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

2012 Northern Territory general election: Namatjira[1][2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country Liberal	Alison Anderson	1,847	63.2	N/A
	Labor	Des Rogers	824	28.2	N/A
	First Nations	Warren H Williams	253	8.7	N/A
Total formal votes			2,924	95.3	N/A
Informal votes			143	4.7	N/A
Turnout			3,067	59.8	N/A
Two-party-preferred result
	Country Liberal	Alison Anderson	2,006	68.6	N/A
	Labor	Des Rogers	918	31.4	N/A
	Country Liberal win		(new seat)

2016 Northern Territory general election: Namatjira[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Chansey Paech	1,442	46.3	+21.5
	Country Liberal	Heidi Williams	1,024	32.9	−33.2
	Greens	Vincent Forrester	484	15.5	+13.8
	Independent	Alan Keeling	165	5.3	+5.3
Total formal votes			3,115	98.2	+2.7
Informal votes			56	1.8	−2.7
Turnout			3,171	58.3	−4.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Chansey Paech	1,742	58.5	+29.2
	Country Liberal	Heidi Williams	1,236	41.5	−29.2
	Labor gain from Country Liberal		Swing	+29.2

Elections in the 2020s

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Northern Territory general election § Namatjira.[edit]

2020 Northern Territory general election: Namatjira[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country Liberal	Bill Yan	1,066	29.6	−14.0
	Labor	Sheralee Taylor	977	27.1	−8.2
	Territory Alliance	Matt Paterson	809	22.4	+22.4
	Federation	Catherine Satour	344	9.5	+9.5
	Greens	Nikki McCoy	279	7.7	−1.5
	Independent	Tony Willis	131	3.6	+3.6
Total formal votes			3,606	95.2	N/A
Informal votes			180	4.8	N/A
Turnout			3,786	66.1	N/A
Two-party-preferred result
	Country Liberal	Bill Yan	1,814	50.3	−1.7
	Labor	Sheralee Taylor	1,792	49.7	+1.7
	Country Liberal notional hold		Swing	−1.7

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Northern Territory general election § Namatjira.[edit]

Results as of 2:30 UTC, 5 September

2024 Northern Territory general election: Namatjira

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country Liberal	Bill Yan	1,892	55.1	+25.6
	Labor	Sheralee Taylor	870	25.4	−1.7
	Greens	Blair McFarland	668	19.5	+11.7
Total formal votes			3,430	95.7	+0.5
Informal votes			153	4.3	−0.5
Turnout			3,583	55.0
Two-party-preferred result
	Country Liberal	Bill Yan	2,110	61.5	+11.2
	Labor	Sheralee Taylor	1,320	38.5	−11.2
	Country Liberal hold		Swing	+11.8

References

1. Namatjira – Electorate Summary, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 25 August 2012
2. "Namatjira - Northern Territory Votes 2012 - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC.net.au. 31 August 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
3. Namatjira – Electorate summary, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 2 September 2016
4. "Namatjira - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC.net.au. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
5. "Electorate summary: Namatjira". NTEC. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
6. "Namatjira". ABC Elections. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 September 2020.