Greens win first ever seat in Territory’s Parliament

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The Greens have won their first ever seat in the Northern Territory parliament defeating a former Chief Minister. After a close race which included a recount Greens candidate Kat McNamara won the northern Darwin seat of Nightcliff from Labor’s Natasha Fyles.

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00:00It was a shock result that went right down to the wire, and there's kind of two elements

00:06to it.

00:07The first is the literal numbers and how the votes have flowed.

00:09So it was an incredibly tight election the whole way through in Nycliffe.

00:13It was the last electorate that remained in doubt, according to the ABC's chief elections

00:17analyst, Anthony Green.

00:19But it was yesterday when the Electoral Commission factored in what they call a rethrow, which

00:23is essentially a reordering of preferences based on who the top two candidates might

00:27be.

00:28And that showed two things.

00:29The first was that the country Liberal Party's preferences to Labor weren't flowing as strongly

00:34as anticipated or forecast.

00:36And that independent candidate Maluma May, who's very active in the youth justice and

00:40First Nations justice space, her preferences were flowing very strongly to the Greens,

00:45all of which has led to Kat McNamara having a lead of 33 votes on Natasha Files.

00:50That has been recounted this morning, and the definitive call now made by Anthony Green

00:54that that was indeed how it occurred.

00:57And Kat McNamara will unseat Natasha Files, a 12-year member of Nycliffe and a holder

01:03of the safest Labor seat across the Northern Territory.

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