COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 25 OCTOBER 1969 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Government publications HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== NORTHERN TERRITORY ==================================================================== NORTHERN TERRITORY ==================================================================== 1966 two-party majority: Country Party over Labor 01.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 21,186 +21.8 Votes cast: 17,727 83.7 +00.6 Informal votes: 613 03.5 00.0 Formal votes: 17,114 96.5 00.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Brennan 3,377 19.7 Sam Calder * CP 8,281 48.4 -03.3 Alan Gray 252 01.5 Edward Robertson ALP 5,204 30.4 -17.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 17,114 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Brennan was NT MLC for Batchelor 1955, Elsey 1956-58, Victoria River 1958-61, 1962-69, 1969-71. 2. For Robertson, see Senate NT 1975. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Gray's 252 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brennan 73 29.0 3,450 20.2 Calder * 101 40.1 8,382 49.0 Robertson 78 31.0 5,282 30.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 252 17,114 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Brennan's 3,450 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALDER * 1,755 50.9 10,137 59.2 Robertson 1,695 49.1 6,977 40.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 3,450 17,114 09.2 07.5 to CP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Edward Calder (1916-2008): Elected 1966, 1969 --------------------------------------------------------------------