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Division of Lingiari | Longman |
 Hon Warren Snowdon (ALP) His ministerial website and his electorate website |  |
Location: Outback NT: Alice Springs, Katherine, Nhulunbuy, Tennant Creek Division named for: Vincent Lingiari, Indigenous land rights leader Median weekly family income: $856 (96th highest) Persons born in non English speaking countries: 4.6% (115th highest) Persons of Indigenous origin: 36.6% (1st highest) Persons in professional occupations: 24.3% (84th highest) Persons in government employment: 22.9% (8th highest)* Persons aged 65 and over: 5.1% (150th highest) Couple families with dependent children: 46.4% (10th highest) Dwellings being purchased: 18.7% (138th highest) Sitting member: Hon Warren Snowdon (Labor), elected (for Northern Territory) 1987, 1990, 1993, defeated 1996, elected 1998, (for Lingiari) 2001, 2004, 2007 Born: 20 March 1950, Canberra. Career: Teacher, senior project officer Central Land Council, president Central Australian Regional Trades and Labour Council, assistant secretary Northern Territory Trades and Labour Council. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport and Communications 1990-92, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education and Training 1992-96, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Environment, Sport and Territories 1993 and 1994-6, Parliamentary Secretary (Territories) 1993-94. Member, Opposition Shadow Ministry since 2001. Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Minister for Regional and Urban Development, Transport and Infrastructure (Northern Australia and the Territories) 2001-02, Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Transport, Infrastructure and Tourism (Northern Australia and the Territories) 2002-03, Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Minister for Urban and Regional Development, Transport and Infrastructure (Northern Australia) 2003, Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Minister for Urban and Regional Development, Transport and Infrastructure (Northern Australia and Reconciliation) 2003-04, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs 2004-07. Minister for Defence Science and Personnel from 3 December 2007 2001 two-party majority: Labor 05.3 2004 two-party majority: Labor 07.7 2004 two-party majority: Labor 11.2 
2004 enrolment: 58,205 2007 enrolment: 60,340 (+03.7%) Lingiari was created in 2001 when the old seat of Northern Territory was divided in two. It covers the whole of the Northern Territory except the city of Darwin. Like most outback seats, it has a relatively low median income level and a low proportion of people in professional occupations. It also has a very young population, with the lowest proportion of over-65s of any electorate, reflecting the lower life expectancy of its Indigenous population. The dominant political fact in Lingiari is that it has the largest Indigenous population (36.6%) of any federal electorate, and that they vote almost unanimously Labor, although they have a lower turnout than white voters. This means that Labor needs only about 40% of the white vote in Lingiari to win the seat, and Warren Snowdon, who was member for Northern Territory 1987-96 and 1998-2001 before Lingiari was created, and was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Keating government, has enough appeal to white voters to be able to get at least that. Labor does best in the remote mobile booths, polling over 90% of the two-party vote in most of them. The Liberals win most of the white-majority town booths, although Nhulunbuy and Tennant Creek are solid for Labor. In 2007 Labor polled 82% of the two-party vote at Christmas Island. The Liberals polled 66% at Tindal and won the two Katherine booths. All the Alice Springs and Katherine booths swung to the Liberals. | | 
Two-party vote by booth, 2007
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