The NT's new incoming chief minister Lia Finocchiaro and the CLP have won a commanding majority government, with a mandate to lower crime rates and fix the territory's lagging economy.
Former lawyer Lia Finocchiaro is the NT's incoming chief minister, after leading her party to a decisive victory over Territory Labor .
The CLP ran hard on a campaign promising to stamp out crime and "restore the territory lifestyle" after a long period of high crime rates and a flatlining economy under Labor, with the party amassing more than $11 billion in debt. "I want to thank every single Territorian who believes the territory can be better, and we will deliver a better territory for them."The election has also seen a fierce rejection of Labor and its former cabinet, including the loss of its outgoing chief minister Eva Lawler, in her Palmerston seat of Drysdale.
The seat of Nightcliff, previously the safest in the territory and held by former chief minister Natasha Fyles, was by the end of Saturday night too close to call. A Greens victory by former Darwin City Council candidate Suki Dorras-Walker looms as historic for the territory, as it would mark the first ever win for the Greens in NT Parliament.At the end of last night's count, Ms Dorras-Walker had received 57 per cent of the vote, based on a preference estimate, beating both the CLP challenger Laurie Zio and the Labor incumbent, former police minister Brent Potter.
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