Electoral division of Daly: Difference between revisions

'''Daly''' is an [[electoral divisions of the Northern Territory|electoral division]] of the [[Northern Territory Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly]] in Australia's [[Northern Territory]]. It was created in 2001, and takes its name from the [[Daly River (Northern Territory)|Daly River]] region which lies at the heart of the electorate. Daly covers some 77,395 km², encompassing the towns of [[Adelaide River, Northern Territory|Adelaide River]], [[Acacia Hills, Northern Territory|Acacia Hills]], [[Batchelor, Northern Territory|Batchelor]], [[Dundee Beach, Northern Territory|Dundee Beach]], [[Nauiyu Nambiyu Community|Nauiyu Nambiyu]], [[Pine Creek, Northern Territory|Pine Creek]], [[Timber Creek, Northern Territory|Timber Creek]] and [[Wadeye, Northern Territory|Wadeye]]. There were 5,622 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2020.

 

Daly is a relatively new electorate in the Northern Territory, having only been created in 2001. It replaced [[electoral division of Victoria River|Victoria River]], one of the Territory's original seats and best known as the seat of the Territory's first head of government, [[Goff Letts]]. It had been abolished when its namesake was moved out of the electorate by a redistribution. While Victoria River had been held by the [[Australian Labor Party (Northern Territory Branch)|Labor Party]] in the past, Daly appeared on paper to be a safe seat for the [[Country Liberal Party]], having been held easily by then-member [[Tim Baldwin]]. However, he retired at the [[2005 Northern Territory legislative election|2005 election]]. While the CLP candidate, Debbi Aloisi, was widely predicted to succeed him, she was ultimately defeated by Labor challenger [[Rob Knight (politician)|Rob Knight]], who had lost badly to Baldwin in 2001. In the lead-up to the election, there had been almost no suggestion that Knight had any chance of defeating Aloisi. However, on election night the CLP primary vote almost halved, and Knight won on a two-party swing of 24.6 percent—almost unheard of in Australian politics—and turned Daly from a safe CLP seat into a safe Labor seat in one stroke. Knight actually took the seat without the need for preferences. He was re-elected in 2008, but was defeated by CLP candidate [[Gary Higgins]] in 2012.