Fannie Bay by-election: End of counting

Counting in the Fannie Bay by-election has finished for the night.

Labor candidate Brent Potter with 1,745 votes leads CLP candidate Ben Hosking with 1,597 in the two candidate preferred count by 148 votes.

All early, election day and returned postal votes have been counted.

In total, 3,434 electors from an enrolment figure of 5,439 turned out to vote in the by-election.

That number represents 63.1 per cent of the electorate with a further 260 postal votes potentially to be returned to the NTEC over the next 2 weeks.

In the 2020 Territory Election 80.9 per cent of electors voted in Fannie Bay. Electoral Commissioner Iain Loganathan said the turnout was disappointing. “Turnout at the Daly by-election last year was 66% which is a remote division.

As an urban division a much higher turnout was expected Mr Loganathan said. A re-check of tonight’s count will commence on Monday 22 August.

The official declaration of the result of the election will be held following the Friday 2 September deadline for the return of postal votes.

The progressive tally for the by-election can be found on the NTEC website here. More information go to www.ntec.nt.gov.au