Electoral division of Spillett




































Spillett
Northern Territory—Legislative Assembly

NT Electorates 2016 - Spillett.png
Location of Spillett in the Darwin/Palmerston area

Territory Northern Territory
Created 2016
MP Lia Finocchiaro
Namesake Peter Spillett
Electors 5,203 (2016)
Area 76 km2 (29.3 sq mi)
Demographic Urban

Spillett is a division of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in Australia. It was created in 2016, for the 2016 general elections, and covers the northern portions of Darwin and Palmerston, including Darwin Airport. It is named for Peter Spillett, a historian and former member of Darwin City Council.


Historically, Palmerston has been a stronghold for the conservative Country Liberal Party. However, Spillett is based on a particularly conservative portion of Palmerston. It was created with a notional CLP majority of 17.9 percent, making it on paper the CLP's safest metropolitan seat.


Before the election Lia Finocchiaro, the then-CLP member for Drysdale, opted to transfer to Spillett after much of her old base was redistributed there. She defeated former Treasurer Dave Tollner for preselection; Tollner had contested Spillett after his old seat of Fong Lim saw most of its more conservative sections transferred to Spillett, resulting in Fong Lim becoming extremely marginal.[1] Finocchiaro weathered the massive Labor wave that swept through the Territory at the 2016 election—a wave that saw Labor win her old seat of Drysdale on a large swing. In the end, Finocchiaro proved to be in the least danger of the CLP's elected members. She was the only CLP member to win a majority of the primary vote, and went on to win with only a small two-party swing against her. This left Spillett as the only CLP seat in the metropolitan area, and the only safe CLP seat in the legislature. After the election, Finocchiaro was named deputy leader of what remained of the CLP, and hence Deputy Leader of the Opposition.



Members for Spillett














Member Party Term
 

Lia Finocchiaro

Country Liberal
2016–present


Election results









































































































Northern Territory general election, 2016: Spillett[2]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±


Country Liberal

Lia Finocchiaro
2,277
56.1
−5.6


Labor
Phil Tilbrook
1,247
30.7
+4.0


1 Territory
Jeff Norton
237
5.8
+5.8


Independent
Richard Smith
175
4.3
+4.3


Independent
Sonia McKay
95
2.3
+2.3


CEC
Trudy Campbell
29
0.7
+0.7
Total formal votes
4,060
98.2
+1.4
Informal votes
76
1.8
−1.4

Turnout
4,136
78.3
+7.2

Two-party-preferred result


Country Liberal

Lia Finocchiaro
2,438
63.1
−4.9


Labor
Phil Tilbrook
1,428
36.9
+4.9


Country Liberal hold

Swing
−4.9



References





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  2. ^ Spillett – Electorate summary, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 9 September 2016












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