ALP 6.4%
Incumbent MP
Jeff Collins (Territory Alliance), since 2016.
Geography
Central Darwin. Fong Lim covers suburbs immediately to the north-east of the port of Darwin, including Bagot, Ludmilla, Stuart Park, Woolner and Bayview.
Redistribution
Fong Lim shifted to the east, losing Ludmilla to Fannie Bay, and gaining Winnellie, part of Berrimah and the Narrows from Spillett. The theoretical Labor margin drops from 7.8% to 6.4%.
History
The electorate of Fong Lim was created in 2008, largely replacing the seat of Millner. Millner had been held by Labor from 1977 until 1994, when it was won by the Country Liberal Party’s Phil Mitchell.
Mitchell held Millner until 2001, when he was defeated by Labor’s Matthew Bonson. Bonson held Millner for two terms.
Millner was renamed Fong Lim in 2008, due to the suburb of Millner being removed from the seat. In 2008, Bonson was defeated by CLP candidate Dave Tollner, who had previously served two terms as federal MP for Solomon before losing in 2007.
Tollner held Fong Lim for two terms. Tollner was appointed as a minister after the CLP won the 2012 election, and served as deputy chief minister from 2013 to 2014.
A redistribution before the 2016 election slashed Tollner’s margin in Fong Lim as the seat moved away from Palmerston. He attempted to move to the new neighbouring seat of Spillett, but failed to win CLP preselection, and retired.
Labor candidate Jeff Collins won Fong Lim in 2016. Collins was excluded from the ALP caucus in late 2018 after he criticised the government. He resigned from the party in 2019 to sit as an independent, and in 2020 joined the Territory Alliance.
Candidates
- Amye Un (Independent)
- Mark Monaghan (Labor)
- Jeff Collins (Territory Alliance)
- Kylie Bonanni (Country Liberal)
Assessment
This seat is unpredictable, with the sitting MP running for a new party. Fong Lim would be a valuable prize for either the CLP or Labor.
2016 result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Jeff Collins | Labor | 1,802 | 45.3 | +3.3 | 44.4 |
| Tim Dixon | Country Liberal | 1,439 | 36.1 | -11.4 | 37.1 |
| Sue Fraser-Adams | 1 Territory | 356 | 8.9 | +8.9 | 8.5 |
| Ilana Eldridge | Independent | 384 | 9.6 | +9.6 | 7.4 |
| Others | 2.6 | ||||
| Informal | 74 | 1.8 |
2016 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing | Redist |
| Jeff Collins | Labor | 2,171 | 57.8 | +7.9 | 56.4 |
| Tim Dixon | Country Liberal | 1,588 | 42.2 | -7.9 | 43.6 |
Booth breakdown
Fong Lim contains three polling booths, with Stuart Park as the largest with the removal of a majority of votes at Ludmilla due to the redistribution (although more votes were cast at pre-poll).
Labor won the two-party-preferred vote at Stuart Park, Ludmilla and the pre-poll vote. The CLP won Berrimah.
| Voter group | ALP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| Pre-poll | 60.3 | 1,269 | 32.0 |
| Stuart Park | 58.1 | 1,182 | 29.8 |
| Other votes | 52.6 | 1,032 | 26.0 |
| Ludmilla | 55.5 | 298 | 7.5 |
| Berrimah | 41.3 | 181 | 4.6 |