 Port Darwin had historically been a CLP stronghold, having been in that party's hands for all but two terms of its entire existence.Labor had only won it once, and only on a knife-edge, during its 2005 landslide.Going into the 2016 election, Port Darwin had a notional CLP majority of 9.7 percent after the redistribution, which would have made it a fairly safe CLP seat under normal circumstances.