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The Country Liberals (CLP) would face a massive electoral defeat in the Northern Territory if an election was held immediately, according to new poll figures.

But voters are not turning to Labor, which has only increased its primary vote by one-and-a-half points to 38 per cent.

The primary vote of the ruling CLP, under the leadership of Adam Giles, has collapsed by 20 per cent according a News Corp/ReachTel telephone poll of 1,036 people across the main population areas of Darwin, Palmerston and Alice Springs on Sunday.

One-in-four voters think Mr Giles is doing a good or very good job, while half of voters think he is doing a poor or very poor job.

Opposition Leader Delia Lawrie is now the preferred candidate for Chief Minister with 36 per cent of respondents choosing her when asked who would make the Territory's better leader. Mr Giles rated 30 per cent.

Willem Westra van Holthe, now the deputy to Mr Giles but who announced himself as the chief minister during the botched coup attempt to oust Mr Giles in February, was chosen by 11.6 per cent of respondents as preferred Chief Minister.

Labor's deputy leader Michael Gunner rated 22 per cent.

On a two-party preferred basis, 38 per cent of respondents said they supported the CLP, down from 56 per cent at the 2012 election when the Terry Mills-led CLP took power.

The new polling results had 62 per cent choosing Labor, a bounce back from the 44 per cent at the 2012 election when they lost government.

The poll's margin of error is 3 per cent.

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Adam Giles-led Country Liberals Government facing crushing NT electoral defeat, new poll figures