Electoral division of Tiwi

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.

Members for Tiwi

Member		Party	Term
	Hyacinth Tungutalum	Country Liberal	1974–1977
	Noel Padgham-Purich	Country Liberal	1977–1983

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

1974 Northern Territory general election: Tiwi[1]

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)

• Preferences were not distributed.
• The number of votes each individual Independent received is unknown.

1977 Northern Territory general election: Tiwi[1]

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

• The number of votes each individual Independent, Labor and CLP candidate received is unknown.
• The Labor candidate that came second on preferences is unknown.

Elections in the 1980s

1980 Northern Territory general election: Tiwi[2]

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

• 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