Brennan
Northern Territory—Legislative Assembly
Location of Brennan in the Darwin/Palmerston area
TerritoryNorthern Territory
Created1990
MPMarie-Clare Boothby
PartyCountry Liberal
NamesakeHarold Brennan
Electors5,746 (2020)
Area5 km2 (1.9 sq mi)
DemographicUrban
Electorates around Brennan:
Spillett Nelson Nelson
Drysdale Brennan Spillett
Blain Blain Spillett

Brennan is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1990 as a replacement for the abolished seat of Ludmilla, and derives its name from Harold "Tiger" Brennan, a former member of the Legislative Council and Mayor of Darwin. Brennan includes both rural and urban areas, covering an area of 5 km2 and encompassing the Palmerston suburbs of Bakewell, Gunn, Farrar, as well as part of Rosebery. There were 5,746 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2020.

Palmerston has long been one of the heartlands of the Country Liberal Party. Indeed, until 2005, the Labor Party had never come close to winning a Palmerston-based seat in the history of the Assembly. However, Brennan is located in what had long been reckoned as a particularly conservative area even by Palmerston standards, and it was the CLP's safest seat after the 2001 election. Denis Burke, who served as Chief Minister of the Northern Territory from 1999 to 2001 and had just been reelected as Opposition Leader a few months before the election, was not expected to have any difficulty holding the seat in the foreseeable future. However, in a shock result that had not been predicted by any prominent commentator, much less either candidate, Brennan fell to the ALP candidate, James Burke, at the 2005 election—only the second time that a major-party leader in the Northern Territory had been toppled in his own electorate.

Burke's victory was short-lived, as Peter Chandler regained the seat for the CLP at the 2008 election. Chandler picked up a massive swing in 2012, seemingly reverting Brennan to its traditional status as a safe CLP seat. However, Chandler was swept out four years later by Labor's Tony Sievers amid the CLP's collapse in Palmerston. Sievers in turn narrowly lost his seat to the CLP's Marie-Clare Boothby in 2020.

Members for Brennan

Member Party Term
  Max Ortmann Country Liberal 1990–1994
  Independent 1994–1994
  Denis Burke Country Liberal 1994–2005
  James Burke Labor 2005–2008
  Peter Chandler Country Liberal 2008–2016
  Tony Sievers Labor 2016–2020
  Marie-Clare Boothby Country Liberal 2020–present

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Northern Territory general election § Brennan.[edit]
2020 Northern Territory general election: Brennan[1][2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tony Sievers 1,760 40.2 −7.2
Country Liberal Marie-Clare Boothby 1,730 39.5 −3.9
Territory Alliance Abraham Mbemap 477 10.9 +10.9
Independent Peter Chandler 413 9.4 +9.4
Total formal votes 4,380 96.8 N/A
Informal votes 146 3.2 N/A
Turnout 4,526 78.8 N/A
Two-party-preferred result
Country Liberal Marie-Clare Boothby 2,242 51.2 +3.8
Labor Tony Sievers 2,138 48.8 −3.8
Country Liberal gain from Labor Swing+3.8

References

  1. ↑ "Electorate summary: Brennan". NTEC. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "Brennan". ABC Elections. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 September 2020.

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