Three candidates are contesting the seat of Blain in the NT election in August.

Mark Turner, who is now an independent, won the seat for Labor at the last election, receiving 1,729 primary votes, ahead of the CLP on 1,489 and Territory Alliance on 959 votes.

It was a close race between the major parties back in 2020, with Labor gaining 2,095 votes on preferences and the CLP 2,082 votes.

Katie Woolf finds out what the big issues are for the candidates, why they’ve decided to run and how their preferences will work.

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