Results of the Northern Territory general election, 2012
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Results of the Northern Territory general election, 2012

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Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

Country Liberal	Francis Maralampuwi Xavier	1,308	43.1	+6.6

Labor	Dean Rioli	1,104	36.4	−9.7

Greens	George Pascoe	426	14.1	+14.1

First Nations	Jeannie Gadambua	194	6.4	+6.4

Total formal votes	3,032	95.3	+1.3

Informal votes	148	4.7	−1.3

Turnout	3,180	58.1	−2.8

Two-party-preferred result

Country Liberal	Francis Maralampuwi Xavier	1,547	51.0	+15.0

Labor	Dean Rioli	1,485	49.0	−15.0

Country Liberal gain from Labor	Swing	+15.0

Sentence(s)

In the 2012 Northern Territory general election, Xavier led Rioli by 148 votes.

final_sentence: In the 2012 Northern Territory general election, Xavier led Rioli by 148 votes.