Electoral division of Fong Lim

Fong Lim is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory.

Fong Lim
Northern Territory—Legislative Assembly
Location of Fong Lim in the Darwin/Palmerston area
TerritoryNorthern Territory
Created2008
MPJeff Collins
PartyTerritory Alliance
NamesakeAlec Fong Lim
Electors5,555 (2020)
Area31 km2 (12.0 sq mi)
DemographicUrban

The district is named after Alec Fong Lim, Lord Mayor of Darwin from 1984 to 1990. There were 5,555 people enrolled in the division in August 2020.

The seat is currently held by Jeff Collins as a member of the Territory Alliance. Collins was elected in 2016 as a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), resigning to sit as an independent in 2018 and joining the Alliance in 2020.

Geography

Fong Lim is located in the suburban corridor south of the Stuart Highway in Darwin. It takes in the suburbs of Bayview, Stuart Park, Woolner and The Narrows, and parts of Coconut Grove and Ludmilla.

History

Fong Lim largely replaced the abolished Electoral division of Millner, and was renamed in honour of former Darwin Lord Mayor Alec Fong Lim. It was first contested at the 2008 election. Based on the results of the previous election, it was calculated to have a Labor majority of 61.5% to 38.5% versus the Liberal Party. It was contested by the incumbent member for Millner, Labor MP Matthew Bonson, who lost to the Country Liberal Party's candidate, former federal MP Dave Tollner, on a swing of 13 percent. Tollner was reelected in 2012 as the CLP won government.

However, a redistribution ahead of the 2016 election dramatically altered Fong Lim. Virtually all of the eastern portion of the seat was transferred to the new seat of Spillett, making Fong Lim a more compact Darwin-based seat. This all but erased the CLP majority in the seat, reducing it to an extremely marginal 0.2 percent. Tollner tried to win CLP preselection for Spillett, but lost to Lia Finocchiaro. Meanwhile, Jeff Collins won the seat for Labor on a swing of over eight percent.

Members for Fong Lim
MemberPartyTerm
  Dave Tollner Country Liberal 2008–2016
  Jeff Collins Labor 2016–2018
  Independent 2018–2020
  Territory Alliance 2020–present

Election results
See also: Electoral results for the division of Fong Lim
2016 Northern Territory general election: Fong Lim[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Jeff Collins 1,802 45.3 +3.3
Country Liberal Tim Dixon 1,439 36.1 −11.4
Independent Ilana Eldridge 384 9.6 +9.6
1 Territory Sue Fraser-Adams 356 8.9 +8.9
Total formal votes 3,981 98.2 +1.0
Informal votes 74 1.8 −1.0
Turnout 4,055 75.8 +3.9
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Jeff Collins 2,171 57.8 +7.9
Country Liberal Tim Dixon 1,588 42.2 −7.9
Labor gain from Country Liberal Swing+7.9
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References
  1. Fong Lim – Electorate summary, Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 9 September 2016

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