The flattening of the Country Liberals in Saturday's Northern Territory election shows the power of the Indigenous vote.
It was about the only thing that went wrong for Labor in the Northern Territory after annihilating the sitting Country Liberals government to claim power.
Four years after abandoning Labor, the Northern Territory's bush voters returned to the party and handed it victory.
With more than half the vote counted, Labor has just over 33,00 votes on a two candidate preferred basis to the Country Liberals' 25,000.
Country Liberals leader Adam Giles conceded defeat to Mr Gunner last night.
The controversial leader, the first Aboriginal person to lead a state or territory government in Australia, was brutally honest in analysing his defeat.
"Tonight, no doubt, is a landslide, it's a thumping," he told a mournful Country Liberals gathering in Alice Springs.
Mr Giles' own political seat is in doubt. He trails by 21 votes in his seat of Braitling.
Almost every regional seat that swung so heartily to the Country Liberals at the previous election, came back to the embrace of Labor.
