Northern Territory
The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly has 25 members, elected for four-year terms from single-member constituencies under the same full preferential form of the Alternative Vote used for the House of Representatives. The Territory has never had an upper house. Nomination as a candidate requires one of the following:
- Must be over 18 years of age
- Nomination by six electors; or
- Nomination by the Registered Officer of a political party (registration of a party requires 200 members).
- Deposit of $200. The deposit is returned if the candidate gains 20% of first preference vote.
Read more about this topic: Electoral Systems Of The Australian States And Territories
Famous quotes containing the words northern and/or territory:
“You’ll wait a long, long time for anything much
To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud
And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.”
—Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872)