Casuarina is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1974 and was named after the adjacent suburb of Casuarina. Casuarina is an entirely urban electorate, covering only 9.28 km² and taking in the suburbs of Brinkin, Nakara, Tiwi and part of Alawa, as well as the Charles Darwin University. There were 4237 people enrolled in the electorate as of June 2005.
Casuarina has for the most part of its history been a safe seat for the Country Liberal Party. Current Chief Minister Clare Martin did nearly manage to take the seat for the Australian Labor Party upon the retirement of long-serving CLP member Nick Dondas in 1994, but lost out to the CLP's Peter Adamson, who held the seat for the next seven years. It was still widely presumed to be a safe Liberal seat in 2001, when it fell to the ALP in one of the most surprising results of the 2001 election. The seat appears to be becoming considerably less marginal, as Vatskalis easily held the seat at the 2005 election, experiencing a massive swing in his favour.
| Member | Party | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Dondas | Country Liberal | 1974–1994 | |
| Peter Adamson | Country Liberal | 1994–2001 | |
| Kon Vatskalis | Labor | 2001–present | |
| Northern Territory general election, 2008: Casuarina | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Kon Vatskalis | 2,397 | 64.2 | -4.2 | |
| Country Liberal | Gary Haslett | 1,339 | 35.8 | +4.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 3,736 | 94.9 | -2.4 | ||
| Informal votes | 199 | 5.1 | +2.4 | ||
| Turnout | 3,935 | 84.1 | |||
| Labor hold | Swing | -4.2 | |||
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