Voting closed counting begins

24,784 eligible Territorians cast their vote at 17 election day voting centres across the Territory.

Counting has now commenced at scrutiny centres in Darwin, Alice Springs and at all election day voting centres across the Territory. 

Results will be progressively updated during the evening on the NT Electoral Commission
website (NTEC). 

Scrutiny centres will count votes cast at early voting centres and at remote and urban mobile services. Election day voting centres will count the votes cast today. The election night count is a preliminary count with further scrutiny of all ballot papers to commence on Monday. 

Counting is expected to conclude for the night at 11:00 pm. 

NT Electoral Commissioner Kirsten Kelly said "The 13-day count period has now commenced and will continue to Friday 5 September, which is the deadline for receipt of postal votes
(12 noon) and the final count before the distribution of preferences".  

“On Monday 25 August, a check count or fresh scrutiny of all ballot papers will commence, all ballot papers counted tonight will be reviewed.

Ballot papers for single vacancy elections will continue to be manually counted whilst ballot papers for multi vacancy elections will be batched, entered and verified using count software. 

During the count period returned postal votes, absent votes and accepted declaration votes will be added to the count. Scrutineers can observe the count process” Ms Kelly said. 

Results are available here 2025 Local Government Elections | NTEC

Visitors to the page are reminded to refresh the page regularly as updates/counts will continue regularly throughout the night.