NT Greens
Leader	None
Headquarters	PO Box 421 Nightcliff NT 0814
Ideology	Green politics Progressivism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Australian Greens
Colours	Green
Legislative Assembly	1 / 25
Darwin City Council	1 / 13
Barkly Regional Council	1 / 13
Alice Springs Town Council	1 / 8
Mayors in the Northern Territory	1 / 18
Website
greens.org.au/nt
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TheNT Greens are agreen party in theNorthern Territory, a member of the federation of theAustralian Greens party. The party currently has one representative in theNorthern Territory Legislative Assembly, having won the seat ofNightcliff in2024.

Green candidates first ran in the Northern Territory at the1990 federal election and the1990 Northern Territory election. The1996 federal election saw the first NT Greens candidates contest a federal election under an official party banner.^[1]

The NT Greens saw its first electoral victory in April 2008, when candidate Greg Jarvis was elected as one of three members forDarwin City Council's Chan Ward, defeating incumbent alderman Christine Tilley.^[2] Jarvis died on 1 February 2010^[3] and the resultant by-election was won by Greens candidate Robin Knox. In the 2012 local government elections the party's representation on Council was doubled in Darwin with the re-election of Robin Knox in Chan Ward and election of Simon Niblock in Lyons Ward. InAlice Springs, Jade Kudrenko was the first Green Councillor, elected in 2012.^[4]

At the2008 Northern Territory election, the Greens ran in six of the 25 seats in theunicameral parliament, averaging around 16 percent. The highest vote was inNightcliff at 23.7 percent.^[5] The NT Greens increased their vote in both Houses to a record 13 percent at the2010 federal election.

At the2020 Northern Territory election, the party once again contested ten of the twenty-five Assembly seats and achieved a record result with 4.46% of the primary vote. They were closest to a place in a two-party preferred contest in Nightcliff, where candidate Billee McGinley was within 14 votes of beating theCountry Liberal Party into second place at the final exclusion.^[6]

At the2021 local government elections, the party endorsed candidates in the elections forAlice Springs Town Council,Barkly Regional Council, andCity of Darwin. The Greens candidates in Darwin and the Barkly were successful.^[7]

Asta Hill was elected as mayor of Alice Springs in August 2025.

The NT Greens have had very little electoral success when compared to other branches of the Greens. The party's electoral success in the Northern Territory is mostly limited tolocal government.

The NT Greens was the last branch of the Greens to gain parliamentary representation. The Greens have never had any representatives from the Northern Territory in theFederal Parliament, nor had they had any representatives in theNorthern Territory Legislative Assembly until the2024 Northern Territory general election.

At territory elections, the Northern Territory consistently has the lowest Greens vote of any state or territory, peaking at 8.1%. However, the Greens only field candidates in select seats (mostly in the Northern Territory's three largest cities:Darwin,Palmerston andAlice Springs), being the only Greens branch in Australia to not run in every seat of 2024. At the2020 general election, the party fielded candidates in 10 of the 25electoral divisions of the Legislative Assembly:Araluen,Braitling,Casuarina,Daly,Fannie Bay,Goyder,Johnston,Namatjira,Nightcliff andElectoral division of Port Darwin. Of these, the party's highest vote was in Nightcliff (where they almost finished second), while Daly, Goyder and Namatjira were the only seats outside Darwin or Alice Springs that the party contested.

Prior to the 2024 election, the only time the Greens had finished second in any seat at a Northern Territory general election was in2008, when the Greens finished second in the Alice Springs-based seat of Braitling, where the party finished second to the CLP; however, the Greens won just 29.7% of thetwo-candidate-preferred vote against the CLP's 70.3%. At the 2024 election they won the division of Nightcliff to earn their first seat in the Legislative Assembly, and finished close seconds to the CLP in both Fannie Bay and Braitling.

On the federal level, the Greens field candidates in both of the Northern Territory'sHouse of Representativeselectorates: the metropolitan seat ofSolomon and the remote seat ofLingiari, with the party performing better in Solomon than in Lingiari. However, as the two territories only elect two senators each, the Greens have never had a representative in theSenate from either of the two territories.

The NT Greens currently have two members elected to local government in the Northern Territory: Morgan Rickard, Alderman for Chan Ward inCity of Darwin, and Dianne Stokes, elected in Patta Ward,Barkly Regional Council.^[8] Dianne Stokes is currently the Deputy Mayor of Barkly Regional Council.^[9]

The NT Greens have previously had three Aldermen on City of Darwin: Greg Jarvis (2008–10), Robin Knox (2010–21), and Simon Niblock (2012–21). The NT Greens also elected a Councillor, Jade Kudrenko, toAlice Springs Town Council in 2012.

Asta Hill has served asmayor of Alice Springs since 2025.^[10]

Election	NT House seats				NT Senate seats
	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
2001	3,665	4.0	0 / 2		3,978	4.3	0 / 2
2004	5,646	6.2	0 / 2	0	7,016	7.6	0 / 2	0
2007	7,903	8.1	0 / 2	0	8,870	8.8	0 / 2	0
2010	12,175	13.0	0 / 2	0	13,105	13.6	0 / 2	0
2013	7,841	7.9	0 / 2	0	8,974	8.7	0 / 2	0
2016	8,858	9.1	0 / 2	0	11,003	10.8	0 / 2	0
2019	10,512	10.2	0 / 2	0	10,752	10.2	0 / 2	0

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