Electoral division of Sanderson

Sanderson
Northern TerritoryLegislative Assembly

Location of Sanderson in the Darwin/Palmerston area
Territory Northern Territory
Created 1974
MP Peter Styles
Party Country Liberal Party
Namesake Frederick James Sanderson
Electors 5,110 (2012)
Area 6 km2 (2.3 sq mi)
Demographic Urban

Sanderson is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1974, and derives its name from the name initially given to the area in 1879, before its division into suburbs. Sanderson is an urban electorate, covering 5.51 km² and taking in the Darwin suburbs of Anula, Marrara, Wulagi and part of Malak. There were 5,110 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2012.

Sanderson is a bellwether seat that has only tended to change hands at times of major political change in the Territory. It was initially won by the Country Liberal Party's Liz Andrew in 1974, when the CLP won all but two seats in the Assembly (both of which went to independents). However, Andrew was defeated by the Australian Labor Party's June D'Rozario when the ALP swept into the Assembly in 1977, taking several seats. D'Rozario held the seat until 1983, she was swept by the CLP's Daryl Manzie amid the massive CLP landslide of that year. Manzie was a popular incumbent, and held the seat relatively easily until his retirement in 2001. Sanderson then reverted to the ALP in 2001, when the party had its first serious electoral swing since 1977 and swept through the seats of suburban Darwin. The seat was targeted by the CLP at the 2005 election as one they hoped to win back, but Kiely had little difficulty winning a second term amidst a massive territory-wide swing to the ALP. He was defeated in 2008 by Peter Styles, who became only the second opposition MP in the seat's history. Styles retained the seat in 2012 amid the CLP victory of that year, despite a small swing to the ALP.

Members for Sanderson

MemberPartyTerm
  Liz Andrew Country Liberal 1974–1977
  June D'Rozario Labor 1977–1983
  Daryl Manzie Country Liberal 1983–2001
  Len Kiely Labor 2001–2008
  Peter Styles Country Liberal 2008–present

Election results

Northern Territory general election, 2012: Sanderson[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Peter Styles 2,214 50.9 −5.6
Labor Jodie Green 1,872 43.0 −0.6
Sex Party Jillian Briggs 176 4.0 +4.0
First Nations Dimitrious Magriplis 90 2.1 +2.1
Total formal votes 4,352 97.1 +2.9
Informal votes 132 2.9 −2.9
Turnout 4,484 87.7 +1.1
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Peter Styles 2,312 53.1 −3.3
Labor Jodie Green 2,040 46.9 +3.3
Country Liberal hold Swing −3.3

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