A by-election occurred for the

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seat of Heffron on Saturday 25 August 2012. This was triggered by the resignation of former

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() which she announced on 23 June 2012. Labor easily retained the seat with an increased margin.

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received a 60 percent primary and 70 percent

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vote. The by-election was held on the same day as the Northern Territory election.

Dates

Background

Labor retained the seat of Heffron at the election in March 2011 with a primary vote of 41.2 percent and a two-party-preferred vote of 57.1 percent – the sixth-safest of Labor's 20 seats won at the election of the 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The s won 33.3 percent of the primary vote in Heffron, the won 19.0 percent, the CDP won 1.9 percent, with the remaining 4.6 percent to two

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candidates. There was a 16.3 percent two-party-preferred swing away from the

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government at the November 2011 Clarence by-election. The Liberals did not contest the Heffron by-election.

Candidates

The four candidates in ballot paper order were as follows:

Results

() resigned.

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