William Carl Yan is an Australian politician from the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

. Yan was employed at a correctional facility for 17 years. He joined the Country Liberal Party and ran as a candidate in the

electoral division of Namatjira Namatjira is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was created in 2012 when the former division of MacDonnell was renamed after the Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira. Namatjira is an almost en ...

for the

2020 Northern Territory general election The 2020 Northern Territory general election was held on 22 August 2020 to elect all 25 members of the Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. Members were elected through full preferential instant-runoff voting in ...

. He won the election by a margin of 22 votes, and is currently a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.

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Living people Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Country Liberal Party members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly 21st-century Australian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-politician-stub