Electoral division of Stuart Park

Stuart Park 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 was abolished in 1983. It was named after the Darwin suburb of Stuart Park.

Members for Stuart Park

Member		Party	Term
	Marshall Perron	Country Liberal	1974–1983

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1974 Northern Territory general election: Stuart Park[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country Liberal	Marshall Perron	557	33.0
	Independent	William Fisher John McNamee	646	38.3
	Labor	Geoffrey Loveday	486	28.8
Total formal votes			1,689	95.5
Informal votes			79	4.5
Turnout			1,768	74.1
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Country Liberal	Marshall Perron	763	50.2
	Independent		757	49.8
	Country Liberal win		(new seat)

• The number of votes each individual Independent received is unknown.
• The independent candidate that came second on preferences is unknown.

1977 Northern Territory general election: Stuart Park[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country Liberal	Marshall Perron	652	40.7
	Labor	Judith Muras	491	30.7
	Independent	Ernest Chin	267	16.7
	Progress	Kenneth Day	191	11.9
Total formal votes			1,601	97.8
Informal votes			36	2.2
Turnout			1,637	73.9
Two-party-preferred result
	Country Liberal	Marshall Perron	902	56.3
	Labor	Judith Muras	699	43.7
	Country Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

1980 Northern Territory general election: Stuart Park[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country Liberal	Marshall Perron	952	56.1	+15.4
	Labor	Peter Cavanagh	610	36.0	+5.3
	Independent	Terry Wilson	79	4.7	+4.7
	Marijuana	John Duffy	55	3.2	+3.2
Total formal votes			1,696	97.9
Informal votes			36	2.1
Turnout			1,732	78.8
	Country Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

• Preferences were not distributed.

References

1. Wade-Marshall, Dean Jaensch, Deborah (1994). Point of order! : the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory 1974-1994. Darwin: Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. ISBN 0731520769.
2. 1980 Legislative Assembly Results, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 7 June 1980