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The next Northern Territory general election is scheduled for 27 August 2016〔(Timetable for Future Elections: Antony Green ABC 27 May 2013 )〕 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly in the unicameral Northern Territory Parliament. An earlier election is possible in the event that a motion of no confidence in the government is passed by the assembly. All 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly whose current members were elected at the 2012 election will become vacant. Like the Australian House of Representatives, members are elected through full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member electorates. The election will be conducted by the Northern Territory Electoral Commission (NTEC), an independent body answerable to Parliament. ==Timing== The timing of the election is dictated by the Northern Territory Electoral Act. Section 23 of the act fixes polling day as the fourth Saturday in August of the fourth year after the previous election (unless that election had been an extraordinary election). The last election was in 2012, and was a regular election. Therefore, the next election is due on Saturday, 27 August 2016.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nt/consol_act/ea103/s23.html )〕 Section 24 of the act states that an early election can be called if a motion of no confidence in the NT government is passed by the assembly, and no new government can secure the assembly's confidence within eight days. The original confidence motion must be tabled with at least three days' notice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nt/consol_act/ea103/s24.html )〕 Alternatively, section 25 mandates an early election if the assembly rejects an appropriation bill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nt/consol_act/ea103/s25.html )〕 Furthermore, section 26A permits a regular election to be moved by up to 2 months in order to avoid a clash with a federal election (either for the House of Representatives, the Senate, or both). Given the next federal election is due before January 2017, and a half-Senate election cannot be held before 6 August 2016, there remains a possibility that this section will need to be enforced for the next NT election.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nt/consol_act/ea103/s26a.html )〕 The possibility of a confidence motion being put to the assembly was raised in February 2015 during the aborted attempt by Willem Westra van Holthe to take over the leadership of the governing Country Liberal Party (CLP) from incumbent Chief Minister Adam Giles.〔http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-03/twomey-caution-best-option-for-nt-standoff/6067274〕 Five months later, in July 2015, CLP member Kezia Purick quit the party, meaning that the Giles government lost its majority.〔(Kezia Purick quits Northern Territory Country Liberals party, Government loses one-seat majority: ABC 20 July 2015 )〕 Giles raised the possibility of an early election on 20 July stating that he would "love" to call a snap poll, but that it was "pretty much impossible to do". Both Purick and independent member Gerry Wood dismissed the notion of voting against a confidence motion to bring down the government.〔(Adam Giles would 'love to go to an early election' after Kezia Purick resigns Country Liberals party: ABC 20 July 2015 )〕 Unless the government's numbers in the assembly change, or either Wood or Purick reverse their position, the only way in which Giles could call an early election would be to instruct his own members to vote against his government in a confidence motion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northern Territory general election, 2016」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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