Namatjira’s Labor candidate, Sheralee Taylor credits competitiveness to a focus on bush campaigning
NAMATJIRA’S Labor candidate, Sheralee Taylor has credited her competitiveness in the electorate to a focus on bush campaigning
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NAMATJIRA’S Labor candidate, Sheralee Taylor has credited her competitiveness in the electorate to a focus on bush campaigning.
Ms Taylor leads the two-candidate preferred votes with 1,693 votes, 19 ahead of CLP’s Bill Yan.
Numbers reveal Ms Taylor did well in mobile polling with 317 votes, compared to Bill Yan’s 72.
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Ms Taylor said she was confident her time spent campaigning in the bush would pay off.
“I travelled out on the weekends and I’ve been to each community at least twice, if not more, prior to voting,” she said.
“So I was fairly confident I had the confidence of the people in the bush.”
She said historically bush seats have leant to Labor across the Territory.
Mr Yan also echoed this and said “traditionally, bush tend to vote in a particular block and vote one way”.
“Due to a lot of commitments I wasn’t able to spend as much time in the bush as I would have liked,” Mr Yan said.
“People in the bush will vote for you if they know you well enough and you had their respect and their trust so not being able to spend as much time there as I would have liked my is reflected in those (mobile polling) figures.
“If I win the seat, certainly something I’ll have to address longer term is getting out to spend some time with those people in the bush.
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“I spent a week or two around town door knocking and catching up with people and I was at the early voting centre most days.
“We had five days out of those two weeks out in the bush doing mobile polling.”
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