Electoral division of Goyder

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This article is about the electorate in the Northern Territory. For the former electorate in South Australia, see Electoral district of Goyder.

Goyder
Independent
NamesakeGeorge Goyder
Electors5,583 (2016)
Area9,770 km2 (3,772.2 sq mi)
DemographicRural
Electorates around Goyder:
Beagle Gulf
Nelson		 Beagle Gulf Beagle Gulf
Daly Goyder Arafura
Daly Daly Arafura

Goyder is an

Humpty Doo. When first created, it was even larger extending south to Pine Creek and east to Jabiru and the whole of Kakadu National Park
. There were 5,583 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2020.

Goyder was considered a staunch conservative electorate and a very safe seat for the Country Liberal Party for most of its history. It was created in 1990, and the endorsed CLP candidate, Terry McCarthy, defeated renegade former leader Ian Tuxworth to become the first member. McCarthy was handily reelected twice, serving two stints as Speaker. He retired in 2001, and Peter Maley easily retained the seat for the CLP.

However, in 2005, a string of factors caused a massive swing to the

Opposition Leader Denis Burke losing his very safe seat of Brennan
.

In the end, the combination of factors saw the previously very safe CLP seat delivered to the ALP, with Warren narrowly defeating Phasey and becoming the first ALP member in the electorate's history. The final result was not known for several days after the election. However, a redistribution ahead of the 2008 election made the seat notionally CLP, and the seat reverted to form when Warren was soundly defeated by Kezia Purick of the CLP. Purick consolidated the CLP hold on the seat in 2012, and was elected as Speaker. She left the CLP to become an independent in July 2015, and easily retained the seat as an independent in 2016.

Members for Goyder

Member Party Term
  Terry McCarthy Country Liberal 1990–2001
  Peter Maley Country Liberal 2001–2005
 
Independent
 2005
  Ted Warren
Labor
 2005–2008
  Kezia Purick Country Liberal 2008–2015
 
Independent
 2015–present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the division of Goyder
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Northern Territory general election § Goyder.[edit]
2020 Northern Territory general election: Goyder[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Kezia Purick 1,459 31.1 −23.9
Country Liberal Phil Battye 1,289 27.5 +7.2
Territory Alliance Rachael Wright 614 13.1 +13.1
Labor Mick Taylor 590 12.6 −6.4
Independent Pauline Cass 283 6.0 +6.0
Independent Ted Warren 249 5.3 +5.3
Greens
 Karen Fletcher 147 3.1 −1.0
Independent Trevor Jenkins 64 1.4 +1.4
Total formal votes 4,695 96.1 N/A
Informal votes 189 3.9 N/A
Turnout 4,884 87.5 N/A
Two-party-preferred result[a][3]
Country Liberal Phil Battye 3,024 64.4 +16.4
Labor Mick Taylor 1,671 35.6 −16.4
Two-candidate-preferred
result
Independent Kezia Purick 2,665 56.8 −18.5
Country Liberal Phil Battye 2,030 43.2 +18.5
Independent hold Swing −18.5

Notes

  1. ^ Estimated two-party count by Antony Green.

References

  1. ^ "Electorate summary: Goyder". NTEC. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Goyder". ABC Elections. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  3. ^ Green, Antony. "2020 Northern Territory Election – Analysis of Results". Antony Green's Election Blog. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

External links

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