Electoral division of Arnhem: Difference between revisions

Arnhem includes the [[Arnhem Land]] towns of [[Barunga, Northern Territory|Barunga]], [[Beswick, Northern Territory|Beswick]], [[Mataranka, Northern Territory|Mataranka]], [[Jabiru, Northern Territory|Jabiru]] and [[Kakadu, Northern Territory|Kakadu]]. In the redistribution before the [[2016 Northern Territory general election|2016 election]], gained territory from [[Electoral division of Arafura|Arafura]] and [[Electoral division of Stuart|Stuart]], while losing territory to [[Electoral division of Nhulunbuy|Nhulunbuy]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ntec.nt.gov.au/Electoral-divisions/division-profiles/division-profiles2/2020-division-profiles/division-of-arnhem | title=Division of Arnhem | publisher=Northern Territory Electoral Commission | work=Division Profiles | access-date=5 September 2016}}</ref> There were 5,431 people enrolled within the electorate as of August 2020.

 

Arnhem was one of the initial electorates created along with the introduction of the Legislative Assembly in 1974. Though it consisted of predominantly indigenous towns which voted strongly for the [[Australian Labor Party (Northern Territory Branch)|Labor Party]] at a federal level, it was won by the [[Country Liberal Party]] amidst their landslide victory at the [[1974 Northern Territory general election|election of that year]], in which the Labor Party won no seats. Arnhem returned to expectations at the [[1977 Northern Territory general election|1977 election]], when it was won by Labor candidate [[Bob Collins (Australian politician)|Bob Collins]], who was elected leader of the party in 1981. After much of the northern portion of the seat was transferred to the new seat of [[electoral division of Arafura|Arafura]] in 1983, Collins transferred there and was succeeded in Arafura by new Labor candidate [[Wes Lanhupuy]]. Lanhupuy was comfortably re-elected three times, but died suddenly in 1995.<ref name="abc">{{cite web | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/nt-election-2016/guide/arnh/ | title=Electorate: Arnhem | publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation | work=NT Votes 2016 | access-date=5 September 2016}}</ref>