COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 1 DECEMBER 1984 ==================================================================== Source: Australian Electoral Commission HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ==================================================================== VOTING BY DIVISION ==================================================================== NORTHERN TERRITORY ==================================================================== NORTHERN TERRITORY ==================================================================== 1983 two-party majority: ALP over CLP 01.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolled voters: 68,857 +20.1 Votes cast: 58,871 85.5 +04.1 Informal votes: 2,909 04.9 +00.5 Formal votes: 55,962 95.1 -00.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % Swing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Wiyendji Roberts AD 1,906 03.4 -00.1 Hon Paul Everingham CLP 27,335 48.8 +02.0 Phil Ward 1,191 02.1 John Reeves * ALP 25,140 44.9 -01.7 Strider 390 00.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 55,962 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd count: Strider's 390 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Roberts 74 19.2 1,980 03.5 Everingham 40 10.4 27,375 48.9 Ward 73 19.0 1,264 02.3 Reeves * 198 51.4 25,338 45.3 (exhausted 5 5 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 390 55,962 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd count: Ward's 1,264 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Roberts 226 17.9 2,206 03.9 Everingham 340 26.9 27,715 49.5 Reeves * 697 55.2 26,035 46.5 (exhausted 1 6 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,264 55,962 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th count: Roberts's 2,206 votes distributed -------------------------------------------------------------------- EVERINGHAM 1,032 47.1 28,747 51.4 Reeves * 1,159 52.9 27,194 48.6 (exhausted 15 21 ) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 2,206 55,962 01.4 03.3 to CLP -------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Edward Reeves (born 1952): Elected 1983. Defeated 1984 Later career: Barrister. Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 2007. > Paul Anthony Edward Everingham (born 1943): Elected 1984 Born: 4 February 1943, Brisbane Career: Barrister and solicitor. Territory politics: NT MLA for Jingili 1974-84. Chief Minister 1978- 84. Attorney-General 1978-82. Minister for Industrial Development and Tourism 1982-84. Minister for Lands 1982-84. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Everingham sat with the Liberal Party in Parliament. He retired at the 1987 election. Later career: Queensland State President of the Liberal Party --------------------------------------------------------------------