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==Voter base==
Traditionally, the CLP's voting base has been mostly concentrated in [[Palmerston, Northern Territory|Palmerston]], [[Alice Springs]], [[Katherine, Northern Territory|Katherine]] and parts of [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]], as well as in rural towns where the majority of people are [[white people|white]].

Initially, remote Indigenous communities around Australia voted strongly for Labor, but in recent years, [[Indigenous Australians]] have been more frequently voting for the Coalition, particularly in remote communities. At the same time, Labor has become stronger in Darwin and Palmerston. At the [[2012 Northern Territory general election|2012 general election]], the CLP won government by gaining five remote seats where the [[majority-minority|majority of the population]] identify as [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] and that were traditionally considered [[safe seat]]s for Labor. In [[2016 Northern Territory general election|2016]], the CLP was defeated by Labor in a [[landslide victory|landslide]], and thus lost most of its ground territory-wide. However, in [[2020 Northern Territory general election|2020]], the CLP gained back some of its ground in remote areas (including narrowly gaining the seat of [[Electoral division of Barkly|Barkly]], which they did not win in 2012, with a huge [[Swing (Australian politics)|swing]] to them).

The CLP's rule was once so tight, that a former minister once said the CLP had a "'rightful inheritance of being the party that runs this place'".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-09/nt-election-clp-seeking-return-after-two-terms-in-opposition/104185102 | title=After eight years in the political wilderness, the CLP hopes it can return to power in the NT | newspaper=ABC News | date=8 August 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://territorystories.nt.gov.au/10070/462324/0/89 | title=Arcadian populism. The Country Liberal Party and Self-Government in the Northern Territory }}</ref>

===Demographics===
A 2023 poll conducted by the Redbridge Group, which found that the CLP would win the [[2024 Northern Territory general election|2024 general election]] in a landslide, looked at demographics by voting intention in the Northern Territory. The poll found that the CLP has a support base among many demographics. The poll found that the CLP is overwhelmingly more popular than Labor among middle and high-income earners and people over 40, and that the CLP had more support than Labor among both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, [[Australian English|English]] and non-English speakers, and both men and women. The poll found that people aged between 18 and 40 are still more likely to vote for the CLP than they are any party, but by a smaller margin than people over 40.<ref name="redbridge">https://redbridgegroup.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Northern-Territory-Social-Services-11.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}}</ref>

As less parties and candidates contest Northern Territory general elections than they do Australian federal elections in the Northern Territory, the CLP, Labor and independents usually have a higher vote share at territory elections than at federal elections in the Northern Territory due to the absence of right-wing minor parties such as [[Pauline Hanson's One Nation]] and the fact that the [[NT Greens|Greens]] do not run in every seat at territory elections. On the territory level, the Redbridge poll found that 25% of One Nation supporters would vote for the CLP on the territory level, second to only the [[Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party]] (SFF) at 33%.<ref name="redbridge"/>