NT Greens

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{{Use Australian English|date=April 2024}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = The Greens NT

| logo = Northern Territory Greens logo.png

| colorcode = {{party color|Northern Territory Greens}}

| leader = None

| ideology = Green politics
Progressivism

| position = Left-wing

| colours = {{Color box|{{party color|Northern Territory Greens}}|border=darkgray}} Green

| headquarters = PO Box 421
Nightcliff NT 0814

| national = Australian Greens

| website = {{URL|https://greens.org.au/nt}}

| country = Australia

| seats1_title = Legislative Assembly

| seats1 = {{composition bar|1|25|hex={{party color|Northern Territory Greens}}}}

| seats2_title = Darwin City Council

| seats2 = {{composition bar|1|13|hex={{party color|Northern Territory Greens}}}}

| seats3_title = Barkly Regional Council

| seats3 = {{composition bar|1|13|hex={{party color|Northern Territory Greens}}}}

}}

The Northern Territory Greens are a green party in the Northern Territory, a member of the federation of the Australian Greens party. The party currently has one representative in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, having won the seat of Nightcliff in 2024.

Green candidates first ran in the Northern Territory at the 1990 federal election and the 1990 Northern Territory election. The 1996 federal election saw the first NT Greens candidates contest a federal election under an official party banner.{{Cite book|last=Jackson|first=Stuart|title=The Australian Greens: Between movement and electoral professional party (PhD thesis)|year=2011|pages=50|language=English}}

The NT Greens saw its first electoral victory in April 2008, when candidate Greg Jarvis was elected as one of three members for Darwin City Council's Chan Ward, defeating incumbent alderman Christine Tilley.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080608001849/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/05/2208745.htm "Graeme Sawyer wins Darwin mayoral vote"]. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 5 April 2008. Jarvis died on the First of February 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/02/03/120601_ntnews.html |title=Shock as popular city council member dies: The NT News 13/2/2010 |publisher=NT News |date=13 February 2010 |access-date=22 August 2012}} 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. In Alice Springs, Jade Kudrenko was the first Green Councillor, elected in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.ntec.nt.gov.au/ElectionsAndReferendums/LocalGovernmentElections/PastLocalGovernmentElections/Pages/NT-Council-General-Election-24-March-2102-.aspx |title=Results of NT Council General Election 24 March 2012 |publisher=ntec.nt.gov.au |date=2012 |access-date=1 August 2012}}

At the 2008 Northern Territory election, the Greens ran in six of the 25 seats in the unicameral parliament, averaging around 16 percent. The highest vote was in Nightcliff at 23.7 percent.{{cite web|url=http://news.theage.com.au/national/henderson-denies-nt-leadership-an-issue-20080812-3tyu.html |title=Henderson denies NT leadership an issue: The Age 12/8/2008 |publisher=News.theage.com.au |date=12 August 2008 |access-date=1 February 2011}} The NT Greens increased their vote in both Houses to a record 13 percent at the 2010 federal election.

At the 2020 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 the Country Liberal Party into second place at the final exclusion.{{Cite web|last=NTEC|date=16 October 2020|title=Nightcliff|url=https://ntec.nt.gov.au/elections/Legislative-Assembly-elections/Past-elections/results-general-elections/2020-territory-election/results/nightcliff|access-date=19 December 2021|website=NTEC|language=en}}

At the 2021 local government elections, the party endorsed candidates in the elections for Alice Springs Town Council, Barkly Regional Council, and City of Darwin. The Greens candidates in Darwin and the Barkly were successful.{{Cite web|date=24 September 2021|title=The Territory is hungry for political alternatives|url=https://greens.org.au/magazine/territory-hungry-political-alternatives|access-date=19 December 2021|website=Australian Greens|language=en}}