Tiwi was an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. One of the Legislative Assembly's original electorates, it was first contested at the 1974 election, and existed until 1983. It was named after the Tiwi Islands.
Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Hyacinth Tungutalum | Country Liberal | 1974–1977 | |
Noel Padgham-Purich | Country Liberal | 1977–1983 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country Liberal | Hyacinth Tungutalum | 454 | 45.4 | ||
Independent | Peter Lawrence Robert Oaten Noel Padgham-Purich Lou Stewart |
391 | 39.1 | ||
Labor | John Nixon | 156 | 15.6 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,001 | 94.3 | |||
Informal votes | 61 | 5.7 | |||
Turnout | 1,062 | 67.6 | |||
Country Liberal win | (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Harry Maschke Bernard Tipiloura |
495 | 42.5 | ||
Country Liberal | Noel Padgham-Purich Cyril Rioli |
393 | 33.7 | ||
Independent | Terrence O'Brien Strider |
143 | 12.3 | ||
Progress | George Ryan | 134 | 11.5 | ||
Total formal votes | 1,165 | 89.1 | |||
Informal votes | 142 | 10.9 | |||
Turnout | 1,307 | 77.5 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Country Liberal | Noel Padgham-Purich | 612 | 52.5 | ||
Labor | 553 | 47.5 | |||
Country Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country Liberal | Noel Padgham-Purich | 973 | 51.5 | +17.8 | |
Labor | Harry Maschke | 813 | 43.1 | +0.6 | |
Marijuana | Jenny Smither | 72 | 3.8 | +3.8 | |
Independent | Len McAlear | 30 | 1.6 | +1.6 | |
Total formal votes | 1,888 | 93.7 | |||
Informal votes | 127 | 6.3 | |||
Turnout | 2,015 | 82.5 | |||
Country Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
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