Labor has romped to victory in the Northern Territory election, wiping out the CLP government after just one term.
Incoming Chief Minister Michael Gunner thanked voters for the "extraordinary" result and promised a better government than the CLP had provided over the previous four years.
The new Labor government as at least 15 seats and could end up with as many as 18 of the 25 seats in the NT parliament.
The CLP may be lucky to win three after suffering an projected swing of nearly 17 per cent. Independents are expected to take the final three or four seats.
It went into Saturday's election with 11 MPs, although it had won 16 at the 2012 election. Five of those MPs turned independent during a turbulent four-year term that many - including leader Adam Giles - blame for Saturday's routing.
In his victory speech, Mr Gunner said Territorians were "good people who deserve good governance and that's what we will give them."
"They have rejected the chaos of the last four years and they have chosen to place their trust in Labor," he said.
He said he was excited about the future of the Territory, but it would take long-term investment to make transformational change.
"We must have a government that plans beyond the next budget and the next election," he said.
"We have to plan for the long-term best interests of the NT.
"Our children deserve nothing less and our children deserve every opportunity to be their best selves."
Mr Giles earlier on Saturday conceded defeat and acknowledged the CLP's behaviour over the past four years had destroyed its chances.
"Tonight, no doubt, is a landslide, it's a thumping. I don't think anyone would describe it as anything different," he told supporters in Alice Springs.
"Politically speaking tonight's result is a lesson in disunity is death in politics."
But Mr Giles said the CLP government had done a "fantastic job, amazing things" during its single term in power.
"Most definitely the Territory is in a better place on the 27th of August 2016 than it was on 25th August 2012," he said.
"I would like to think the investments that have been put into place right across the NT will leave a long-lasting legacy."
Mr Giles said he was not sure if he had won his seat of Braitling, based in Alice Springs. ABC election analyst Antony Green said preferences were running against him, but "I wouldn't count him out yet."
