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Electoral division of Fong Lim

Fong Lim
Northern TerritoryLegislative Assembly
Map
Interactive map of boundaries as of the 2024 election
TerritoryNorthern Territory
Created2008
MPTanzil Rahman
PartyCountry Liberal
NamesakeAlec Fong Lim
Electors5,555 (2020)
Area31 km2 (12.0 sq mi)
DemographicUrban
Electorates around Fong Lim:
Fannie Bay Sanderson Karama
Fannie Bay Fong Lim Nelson
Port Darwin
Darwin Harbour
Darwin Harbour Darwin Harbour

Fong Lim is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory.

The district is named after Alec Fong Lim, Lord Mayor of Darwin from 1984 to 1990. There were 5,555 people enrolled in the division in August 2020.

The seat is currently held by Tanzil Rahman of the Country Liberal Party.

Geography

Fong Lim is located in the suburban corridor south of the Stuart Highway in Darwin. It takes in the suburbs of Bayview, Stuart Park, Woolner and The Narrows, and parts of Coconut Grove and Ludmilla.

History

Fong Lim largely replaced the abolished seat of Millner, and was renamed in honour of former Darwin Lord Mayor Alec Fong Lim. It was first contested at the 2008 election. Based on the results of the previous election, it was calculated to have a Labor majority of 61.5% to 38.5% versus the Liberal Party. It was contested by the incumbent member for Millner, Labor MP Matthew Bonson, who lost to the Country Liberal Party's candidate, former federal MP Dave Tollner, on a swing of 13 percent. Tollner was reelected in 2012 as the CLP won government.

However, a redistribution ahead of the 2016 election dramatically altered Fong Lim. Virtually all of the eastern portion of the seat was transferred to the new seat of Spillett, making Fong Lim a more compact Darwin-based seat. This all but erased the CLP majority in the seat, reducing it to an extremely marginal 0.2 percent. Tollner tried to win CLP preselection for Spillett, but lost to Lia Finocchiaro. Meanwhile, Jeff Collins won the seat for Labor on a swing of over eight percent. Collins was expelled from his party in 2018. Two years later, he joined the Territory Alliance, but came in third in the 2020 general election as Labor's Mark Monaghan won back the seat. In 2024 CLP candidate Tanzil Rahman won the seat.

Members for Fong Lim

Member Party Term
  Dave Tollner Country Liberal 2008–2016
  Jeff Collins Labor 2016–2018
  Independent Labor 2018–2020
  Territory Alliance 2020
  Mark Monaghan Labor 2020–2024
  Tanzil Rahman Country Liberal 2024-present

Election results

2024 Northern Territory general election: Fong Lim
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Country Liberal Tanzil Rahman 2,050 48.5 +12.1
Labor Mark Monaghan 1,174 27.8 −14.0
Greens Simon Niblock 672 15.9 +15.9
Independent Amye Un 329 7.8 −2.2
Total formal votes 4,225 97.7 +0.2
Informal votes 118 2.7 −0.2
Turnout 4,343 76.5
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Tanzil Rahman 2,428 57.5 +9.6
Labor Mark Monaghan 1,791 42.5 −9.6
Country Liberal gain from Labor Swing +9.6

References

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