2010 Araluen by-election

A by-election for the seat of Araluen in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly was held on 9 October 2010. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Country Liberal Party (CLP) member Jodeen Carney on 3 September 2010 due to ill health.[1] The seat has been held by the CLP since the seat's creation in 1983. Carney narrowly won the seat in the 2001 general election but built up her margin to receive 68 per cent of the primary vote at the 2008 election.[2][3]

The CLP preselected Robyn Lambley, a former Deputy Mayor of Alice Springs,[1][4][5] while Labor preselected Adam Findlay, a chef.[6] Lambley retained the seat for the Country Liberals, receiving around 68 per cent of the vote.[7]

Results

The Greens, who received 14.6 per cent of the vote at the 2008 election, did not contest this election.

Araluen by-election, 2010[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Country Liberal Robyn Lambley 1,935 68.04 −6.64
Labor Adam Findlay 909 31.96 +6.64
Total formal votes 2,844 95.60 −1.97
Informal votes 131 4.40 +1.97
Turnout 2,975 59.22 −15.43
Country Liberal hold Swing−6.64
gollark: In a market, if people don't want kale that much, the kale company will probably not have much money and will not be able to buy all the available fertilizer.
gollark: You can just hand out what some random people think is absolutely *needed* first, then stick the rest of everything up for public use, but that won't work either! Someone has to decide on the "needed", so you get into a planned-economy sort of situation, and otherwise... what happens when, say, the community kale farm decides they want all the remaining fertilizer, even when people don't want *that* much kale?
gollark: Planned economies, or effectively-planned-by-lots-of-voting economies, will have to implement this themselves by having everyone somehow decide where all the hundred million things need to go - and that's not even factoring in the different ways to make each thing, or the issues of logistics.
gollark: Market systems can make this work pretty well - you can sell things and use them to buy other things, and ultimately it's driven by what consumers are interested in buying.
gollark: Consider: in our modern economy, there are probably around (order of magnitude) a hundred million different sorts of thing people or organizations might need.

References
  1. "By-election in Araluen set for October 9". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
  2. O'Brien, Justin (8 September 2010). "Alice Springs by-election". Northern Territory News. News Limited. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
  3. "Northern Territory Election 2005: Araluen". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 28 June 2005. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
  4. Nancarrow, Kirsty (6 September 2010). "CLP choose ex-deputy mayor for by-election". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  5. Langford, Ben (7 September 2010). "CLP shake healing hands to cure fix". Northern Territory News. News Limited. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
  6. 'Fresh face' chosen as Labor's Araluen candidate: ABC 13 September 2010
  7. "Country Liberals' Lambley wins Araluen by-election". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 October 2010. Archived from the original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2010.
  8. 2008 Araluen results: Northern Territory Electoral Commission
  9. 2010 Araluen by-election: Northern Territory Electoral Commission


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