Chief Minister Eva Lawler has conceded the election, with polls showing a complete electoral bloodbath for Territory Labor, which was predicted as of 8:30pm to hold only five seats. It went into Saturday morning holding 14 seats. Ms Lawler is getting...

The Northern Territory will finally get a lobbyist register, regardless of who wins Saturday’s election, with both major parties committing to establishing a register, which appears inspired by former chief minister Paul Henderson’s secret dealings with major gas players and his lobbying of the Labor government.

Nearly 15 per cent of all Territory voters have already cast their ballot in the first three days of early voting – with some electorates seeing more than 20 per cent of voters turning out early – as the 2024 NT general election kicks into gear, figures released by the NT Electoral Commission show.

The Country Liberal Party has distributed an unprecedented attack ad against independent candidates running at the general election, in which it suggested independents could do nothing to improve the Territory, which was quickly dismissed by independents as the actions of a tired, old party fearing for their jobs and pushing the status quo.

The NT Greens appear to be walking back their decision as a party to preference Labor ahead of the CLP on their how-to-vote cards, acknowledging it is hard to tell the two major parties apart, now instructing their voters to make up their own minds over who they preference at the polling booth.