With polls in the Arafura by-election set to close at 6pm tonight, infrastructure and healthcare access emerge as key issues in the race.
Mr Tungatalum, who is contesting for the CLP, is the deputy mayor of the Tiwi Islands Regional Council and the son of H. Tungatalum, who was the first Indigenous man to be elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly back in the 1970s.
A resident in the Top End since the 1990s, Mr Middleton said he was frustrated with the way successive governments had handled the region. Mr Middleton also said infrastructure investments had not kept up with what he described as an "exponential" population increase in the region.The polls in Arafura are set to close at 6pm tonight, with vote-counting to start immediately after.
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