Fong Lim is an

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of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's

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. The district is named after

Alec Fong Lim Alexander Fong Lim AM (鄺鴻銓, 18 February 1931 – 3 September 1990) was the eleventh Lord Mayor of the City of Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia. He served as Lord Mayor from 1 June 1984 to 9 August 199 ...

, 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

Mark Monaghan Mark Monaghan is an Australian politician who serves as MP for the Australian Labor Party in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly for the electoral division of Fong Lim as of 2020. He is currently the 14th Speaker of the Northern Territ ...

of the Labor 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

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, and parts of

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and Ludmilla.

History

Fong Lim largely replaced the abolished seat of Millner, and was renamed in honour of former Darwin Lord Mayor

. It was first contested at the 2008 election. Based on the results of the previous election, it was calculated to have a

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majority of 61.5% to 38.5% versus the

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. It was contested by the incumbent member for Millner, Labor MP Matthew Bonson, who lost to the

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's candidate, former federal MP

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, on a swing of 13 percent. Tollner was reelected in

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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

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. 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

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, but came in third in the 2020 general election as Labor's

won back the seat.

Members for Fong Lim

Election results

References

External links

Division Profile at the Northern Territory Electoral Commission
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fong Lim Electoral divisions of the Northern Territory