2005 Northern Territory general election

2005 Northern Territory general election

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All 25 seats of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly 13 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	80.07 ( 0.49 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Clare Martin Denis Burke Party Labor Country Liberal Leader since 3 February 1999 7 February 2005 Leader's seat Fannie Bay Brennan (lost seat) Last election 13 seats 10 seats Seats won 19 4 Seat change 6 6 Popular vote 44,822 30,827 Percentage 51.9% 35.7% Swing 11.3 9.7 TPP 59.1% 40.9% TPP 11.1 11.1
Chief Minister before election Clare Martin Labor Elected Chief Minister Clare Martin Labor

A general election was held in the Northern Territory, Australia, on 18 June 2005. The centre-left Labor Party, led by Chief Minister Clare Martin, won a second term with a landslide victory, winning six of the ten seats held by the opposition Country Liberal Party in the 25-member Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, bringing their total to 19. It was the second largest victory in any Northern Territory election. The only larger majority in the history of the Territory was in the first election, in 1974. In that contest, the CLP won 17 of the 19 seats in the chamber, and faced only two independents as opposition.

The most notable casualty was Opposition Leader Denis Burke's loss of his own seat of Brennan. It was only the second time a party leader in the Territory had been defeated in his own electorate, after Majority Leader Goff Letts losing his seat of Victoria River in 1977.