2023 Northern Territory Redistribution – Draft Boundaries Released
(UPDATE: The second version of the draft boundaries have been released. You can find my analysis of them in this post.)
The Northern Territory Redistribution Committee has this afternoon released its draft boundaries for the NT’s 25 Legislative Assembly divisions.
You can find the details on the NT Electoral Commission website.
The redistribution has been undertaken to bring enrolments in divisions back within the permitted 10% variation from quota.
As of 17 April, there were a total of 147,798 voters enrolled to vote with the average enrolment per division at 5,911 per division. Given the small electorate sizes, the Committee will update the enrolment data through the process. All enrolments at the end of the process must be within 10% of the quota.
On current enrolments, only Splillett was outside of the permitted variation, 17.8% over quota.
Five divisions were more than 5% under quota, Barkly, Gwoja, Fannie Bay, Fong Lim and Sanderson. Another three were 5-10% over quota, Drysdale, Mulka and Wanguri.
I was going to write a long post on the redistribution, but the boundaries have been released a day earlier than I expected, plus the draft boundaries involve only minor changes and no seats change political allegiance on my estimated new margins. More inside the post.Read More »2023 Northern Territory Redistribution – Draft Boundaries Released