Division of Solomon

Solomon Australian House of Representatives Division
Solomon, shown within north-western Australia
Created:	2001
State or territory:	Northern Territory
MP:	Damian Hale
Party:	Labor
Namesake:	Vaiben Solomon
Electors:	57,560
Area:	326 km2
Demographic:	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Solomon is an Australian Electoral Division in the Northern Territory. It covers the cities of Darwin (including the surrounding suburbs) and Palmerston. The Division covers only 326 square kilometres (126 sq mi); the Division of Lingiari, the only other Division in the territory, covers 1,347,849 square kilometres (520,407 sq mi). The Division was named after Hon Vaiben Solomon, a Premier of South Australia, a delegate to the second Constitutional convention and member of the first Australian Parliament. He represented the Northern Territory in the South Australian House of Assembly, when it was still part of that state. The Division was created when the former Division of Northern Territory was subdivided at the redistribution of 21 December 2000. It was first contested at the 2001 Federal election. After the 2004 election the seat was a marginal Country Liberal seat. In the 2007 Federal election Solomon experienced a swing of 3.00% towards the Australian Labor Party, making the result very close indeed. After more than a week's counting, the seat was still considered 'in doubt' by the Australian Electoral Commission. The result was declared on 10 December with ALP candidate Damian Hale edging out his CLP rival, the incumbent David Tollner, by only 196 votes or 0.38% of the two-candidate preferred vote.

Members

Election results

External links

• Division of Solomon. Australian Electoral Commission Divisional Profiles. Retrieved on 2007-06-29. (PDF, 177 kB)