Electoral division of Namatjira

Namatjira Northern Territory—Legislative Assembly
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Territory	Northern Territory
Created	2012
MP	Bill Yan
Party	Country Liberal
Namesake	Albert Namatjira
Electors	5,728 (2020)
Area	198,384 km2 (76,596.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Remote
Electorates around Namatjira: Gwoja Barkly Gregory (QLD) Gwoja Namatjira Gregory (QLD) Stuart (SA) Stuart (SA) Stuart (SA)

Namatjira is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was created in 2012 when the former division of MacDonnell was renamed after the Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira. Namatjira is an almost entirely rural electorate, covering 198,384 km², and taking in the resort town of Yulara, the remote communities of Hermannsburg, Kintore and Papunya, and part of southern Alice Springs. There were 5,728 electors enrolled in Namatjira as of August 2020.

The seat's first member, Alison Anderson, the former Labor-turned-independent-turned-Country Liberal (CLP) member for MacDonnell, won the seat handily at the 2012 Territory election amid a large swing to the CLP in the remote portions of the Territory. Anderson left the CLP in 2014, and briefly served as Territory leader of the Palmer United Party before serving out the rest of her term as an independent.

Anderson did not contest the 2016 election. Despite her previously fraught relations with Labor, she endorsed the Labor candidate in the seat, Alice Springs councillor Chansey Paech. Although a redistribution seemingly consolidated the CLP majority in the seat by pushing it into Alice Springs, most commentators believed Anderson's endorsement, combined with the CLP's lackluster polling numbers, made Namatjira a likely Labor gain. Paech took the seat on a swing of over 29 percent—large albeit not the largest at the election—amid Labor's landslide victory that year. However, a redistribution erased Paech's majority and made Namatjira notionally a marginal CLP seat. Paech switched to the neighbouring seat of Gwoja (formerly Stuart) at the 2020 election, and the CLP candidate Bill Yan regained the seat for his party.

Members for Namatjira

Member		Party	Term
	Alison Anderson	Country Liberal	2012–2014
		Independent	2014
		Palmer United	2014
		Independent	2014–2016
	Chansey Paech	Labor	2016–2020
	Bill Yan	Country Liberal	2020–present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the division of Namatjira

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Northern Territory general election § Namatjira.[edit]

2020 Northern Territory general election: Namatjira

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Country Liberal	Bill Yan	1,066	29.6	−14.0
	Labor	Sheralee Taylor	977	27.1	−8.2
	Territory Alliance	Matt Paterson	809	22.4	+22.4
	Australian Federation	Catherine Satour	344	9.5	+9.5
	Greens	Nikki McCoy	279	7.7	−1.5
	Independent	Tony Willis	131	3.6	+3.6
Total formal votes			3,606	95.2	N/A
Informal votes			180	4.8	N/A
Turnout			3,786	66.1	N/A
Two-party-preferred result
	Country Liberal	Bill Yan	1,814	50.3	−1.7
	Labor	Sheralee Taylor	1,792	49.7	+1.7
	Country Liberal notional hold		Swing	−1.7

2024 Northern Territory general election: Namatjira

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Sheralee Taylor
	Country Liberal	Bill Yan
	Greens	Blair McFarland
Total formal votes
Informal votes
Turnout
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Sheralee Taylor
	Country Liberal	Bill Yan
Two-candidate-preferred result
	TBD win		Swing

External links

• Division profile from the Northern Territory Electoral Commission Archived 20 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine