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1994 Northern Territory general election

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All 25 seats of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly 13 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	80.7 ( 0.9 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Marshall Perron Brian Ede Party Country Liberal Labor Leader since 14 July 1988 2 November 1990 Leader's seat Fannie Bay Stuart Last election 14 seats 9 seats Seats won 17 7 Seat change 3 2 Popular vote 38,266 30,507 Percentage 51.9% 41.4% Swing 3.1 4.8 TPP 56.3% 43.7% TPP 0.7 0.7
Chief Minister before election Marshall Perron Country Liberal Elected Chief Minister Marshall Perron Country Liberal

A general election was held in the Northern Territory on Saturday 4 June 1994, and was won by the incumbent Country Liberal Party (CLP). Marshall Perron continued as Chief Minister.

Independent Noel Padgham-Purich retained her seat of Nelson while Independent Denis Collins lost his seat of Greatorex to the CLP.

Retiring MPs

Country Liberal

• Nick Dondas MLA (Casuarina)
• Roger Vale MLA (Braitling)

Results

Summary of the results of the 1994 Northern Territory general election, Legislative Assembly

Party		Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Country Liberal	38,266	51.91	3.08	17	+3
	Labor	30,507	41.38	4.74	7	-2
	Independents	4,338	5.88	0.90	1	-1
	Greens	552	0.75	2.30	0	±0
	Democrats	58	0.08	New	0	±0
Total		73,721	100.00	–	25	–
Valid votes		73,721	96.19
Invalid/blank votes		2,917	3.81	+0.7
Total votes		76,638	100.00	–
Registered voters/turnout		95,007	80.67	-0.9
	Country Liberal	41,485	56.27
	Labor	32,236	43.73
Total		73,721	100.00

Candidates

Sitting members are listed in bold. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour.

Seats changing hands

Post-election pendulum

The following pendulum is known as the Mackerras pendulum, invented by psephologist Malcolm Mackerras. The pendulum works by lining up all of the seats held in the Legislative Assembly according to the percentage point margin they are held by on a two-party-preferred basis. This is also known as the swing required for the seat to change hands. Given a uniform swing to the opposition or government parties, the number of seats that change hands can be predicted.

References

1. Wade-Marshall, Dean Jaensch, Deborah (1994). The 1994 elections in the Northern Territory : a statistical analysis. Darwin: North Australia Research Unit. ISBN 0949094137.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

• Elections in the Northern Territory
• 1994 elections in Australia
• 1990s in the Northern Territory
• June 1994 events in Australia