This month's by-election will be taking place in the Palmerston electorate of Blain which was named for Adair Macalister 'Chill' Blain who was elected to the House of Representatives in 1934 as independent member for the Division of Northern Territory. Blair enrolled in the army in World War II and was taken prisoner by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942, thus becoming the only serving Representative to be a prisoner of war. While serving as a POW, Blain was re-elected unopposed in the 1943 election, and was elected again in 1946. He lost his seat in the 1949 election to the Labor candidate, Jock Nelson, and then moved to New South Wales to resume his work as a surveyor. Blain died in 1983.