| Ginninderra Australian Capital Territory—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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| Territory | Australian Capital Territory | ||||||||||||||
| Created | 1995 | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 63,188 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 105 km2 (40.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Federal electorate(s) | Fenner | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°13′41″S149°2′17″E / 35.22806°S 149.03806°E | ||||||||||||||
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The Ginninderra electorate is one of the five electorates for the unicameral 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It elects five members.
It was created in 1995, when the three-electorate, Hare-Clark electoral system was first introduced for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Prior to 1995, a multi-member single constituency existed for the whole of the ACT. The name "Ginninderra" is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning "sparkling like the stars". It is the name given to the creek that flows through the middle of Belconnen, which was dammed to form Lake Ginninderra, the lake on which the Belconnen Town Centre is sited. [1]
The Ginninderra electorate comprises the southern part of the district of Belconnen, including the suburbs of Aranda, Belconnen, Bruce, Charnwood, Cook, Dunlop, Evatt, Florey, Flynn, Fraser, Hawker, Higgins, Holt, Latham, Lawson, Macgregor, Macnamara, Macquarie, Melba, McKellar, Page, Scullin, Spence, Strathnairn and Weetangera.
Two Belconnen suburbs, Giralang and Kaleen are part of Yerrabi.
From 1995 to 2001 it contained the Canberra districts of Belconnen and Hall. [2] After the 2001 redistribution the Gungahlin suburb of Nicholls was moved to the electorate. [3] The 2008 redistribution made no changes to the boundaries of the electorate. [4]
In the 2012 redistribution the Gungahlin suburbs of Crace and Palmerston were moved from Molonglo into Ginninderra. [5]
In the 2016 redistribution, all three Gungahlin suburbs, the village of Hall, and the Belconnen suburbs of Evatt, Giralang, Kaleen, Lawson and McKellar were transferred into the new Yerrabi electorate. [6] At the 2020 redistribution, the suburbs of Evatt, Lawson and McKellar were transferred back into Ginninderra. [7]
| Year | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | |||||
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| 1995 | Roberta McRae | Labor | Wayne Berry | Labor | Lucy Horodny | Greens | Harold Hird | Liberal | Bill Stefaniak | Liberal | |||||
| 1998 | Jon Stanhope | Labor | Dave Rugendyke | Independent | |||||||||||
| 2001 | Roslyn Dundas | Democrats | Vicki Dunne | Liberal | |||||||||||
| 2004 | Mary Porter | Labor | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | Meredith Hunter | Greens | Alistair Coe | Liberal | |||||||||||
| 20111 | Chris Bourke | Labor | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | Yvette Berry | Labor | |||||||||||||
| 20162 | Jayson Hinder | Labor | |||||||||||||
| 2016 | Tara Cheyne | Labor | Gordon Ramsay | Labor | Elizabeth Kikkert | Liberal | |||||||||
| 2020 | Jo Clay | Greens | Peter Cain | Liberal | |||||||||||
| 20243 | Independent | ||||||||||||||
| 20243 | Family First | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Quota | 9,338 | ||||
| Labor | Yvette Berry (elected 1) | 8,756 | 15.6 | +5.5 | |
| Labor | Tara Cheyne (elected 3) | 6,306 | 11.3 | +3.0 | |
| Labor | Gordon Ramsay | 4,783 | 8.5 | +0.2 | |
| Labor | Sue Ducker | 1,288 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| Labor | Greg Lloyd | 1,276 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| Liberal | Elizabeth Kikkert (elected 2) | 5,222 | 9.3 | +2.6 | |
| Liberal | Peter Cain (elected 5) | 3,069 | 5.5 | +5.5 | |
| Liberal | Robert Gunning | 2,822 | 5.0 | +5.0 | |
| Liberal | Kacey Lam | 2,256 | 4.0 | +4.0 | |
| Liberal | Ignatius Rozario | 1,608 | 2.9 | −0.7 | |
| Greens | Jo Clay (elected 4) | 3,495 | 6.2 | +6.2 | |
| Greens | Katt Millner | 2,242 | 4.0 | +4.0 | |
| Greens | Tim Liersch | 1,269 | 2.3 | +2.3 | |
| Belco | Bill Stefaniak | 2,214 | 4.0 | +4.0 | |
| Belco | Chic Henry | 1,517 | 2.7 | +2.7 | |
| Belco | Alan Tutt | 626 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Belco | Angela Lount | 493 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
| Belco | Vijay Dubey | 414 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| Democratic Labour | Helen McClure | 724 | 1.3 | +1.3 | |
| Democratic Labour | Ian McClure | 623 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Matthew Ogilvie | 676 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Oliver Smith | 614 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Sustainable Australia | Mark O'Connor | 579 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
| Sustainable Australia | Paul Gabriel | 408 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| Animal Justice | Lara Drew | 541 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
| Animal Justice | Carolyne Drew | 418 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| Independent | Mignonne Cullen | 704 | 1.3 | +1.3 | |
| Climate Change Justice | Jonathan Stavridis | 215 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
| Climate Change Justice | Sok Kheng Ngep | 203 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
| Climate Change Justice | Oksana Demetrios | 200 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Guy Jakeman | 258 | 0.5 | −0.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Dominic De Luca | 206 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
| Total formal votes | 56,025 | 98.5 | +1.3 | ||
| Informal votes | 865 | 1.5 | −1.3 | ||
| Turnout | 56,890 | 89.1 | +0.2 | ||
| Party total votes | |||||
| Labor | 22,409 | 40.0 | −1.4 | ||
| Liberal | 14,977 | 26.7 | −5.3 | ||
| Greens | 7,006 | 12.5 | +0.8 | ||
| Belco | 5,264 | 9.4 | +9.4 | ||
| Democratic Labour | 1,347 | 2.4 | +2.4 | ||
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 1,290 | 2.3 | +2.3 | ||
| Sustainable Australia | 987 | 2.3 | +2.3 | ||
| Animal Justice | 959 | 1.7 | +0.8 | ||
| Independent | Mignonne Cullen | 704 | 1.3 | +1.3 | |
| Climate Change Justice | 618 | 1.1 | +1.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 464 | 0.8 | −0.4 | ||
| Labor hold | Swing | +5.5 | |||
| Labor hold | Swing | +3.0 | |||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +2.6 | |||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +5.5 | |||
| Greens gain from Labor | Swing | +6.2 | |||
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