| Murrumbidgee Australian Capital Territory—Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||||||
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| Territory | Australian Capital Territory | ||||||||||||||
| Created | 2016 | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Murrumbidgee River | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 59,323 (2020) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 250 km2 (96.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 35°18′40″S148°59′38″E / 35.31111°S 148.99389°E | ||||||||||||||
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The Murrumbidgee electorate is one of the five electorates for the unicameral 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It elected five members at the 2016 ACT election.
Murrumbidgee was created in 2016, when the five-electorate, 25-member Hare-Clark electoral system was first introduced for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly, replacing the previous three-electorate, 17-member system. The electorate is named after the Murrumbidgee River which flows through the electorate, with the word "Murrumbidgee" meaning "big water" in the Aboriginal Wiradjuri language. [1]
The Murrumbidgee electorate consists of the Woden Valley suburbs of Chifley, Curtin, Farrer, Garran, Hughes, Isaacs, Lyons, Mawson, O'Malley, Pearce, Phillip, Torrens, the Weston Creek suburbs of Chapman, Duffy, Fisher, Holder, Rivett, Stirling, Waramanga, Weston, the Molonglo Valley suburbs of Coombs, Denman Prospect, Whitlam and Wright, the South Canberra suburbs of Deakin, Yarralumla, Forrest and Red Hill as well as the districts of Coree (including the village of Uriarra) and Stromlo.
On the original boundaries contested in 2016 Murrumbidgee included the entire suburb of Kambah. However the boundary redistribution conducted in 2019 transferred the western portion of Kambah to the Brindabella electorate in exchange for gaining the suburbs of Deakin and Yarralumla from the Kurrajong electorate. [2] The 2023 boundary redistribution returned all of Kambah to the Brindabella electorate and moved Forrest and Red Hill from the Kurrajong electorate into the Murrumbidgee electorate. [3]
| Year | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | |||||
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| 2016 | Bec Cody | Labor | Chris Steel | Labor | Caroline Le Couteur | Greens | Jeremy Hanson | Liberal | Giulia Jones | Liberal | |||||
| 2020 | Marisa Paterson | Labor | Emma Davidson | Greens | |||||||||||
| 20221 | Ed Cocks | Liberal | |||||||||||||
1 Giulia Jones (Liberal) resigned on 2 June 2022. Ed Cocks (Liberal) was elected as her replacement on countback on 20 June 2022 [4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Quota | 8,960 | ||||
| Labor | Chris Steel (elected 2) | 7,407 | 13.8 | +4.6 | |
| Labor | Marisa Paterson (elected 4) | 4,197 | 7.8 | +7.8 | |
| Labor | Bec Cody | 3,686 | 6.9 | −1.9 | |
| Labor | Tim Dobson | 2,264 | 4.2 | +4.2 | |
| Labor | Brendan Long | 1,828 | 3.4 | −2.0 | |
| Liberal | Jeremy Hanson (elected 1) | 8,209 | 15.3 | −7.2 | |
| Liberal | Giulia Jones (elected 3) | 3,535 | 6.6 | −0.6 | |
| Liberal | Amardeep Singh | 3,226 | 6.0 | +6.0 | |
| Liberal | Ed Cocks | 2,658 | 4.9 | +4.9 | |
| Liberal | Sarah Suine | 1,494 | 2.8 | +2.8 | |
| Greens | Emma Davidson (elected 5) | 3,677 | 6.8 | +4.5 | |
| Greens | Tjanara Goreng Goreng | 1,644 | 3.1 | +3.1 | |
| Greens | Terry Baker | 982 | 1.8 | +1.8 | |
| Independent | Fiona Carrick | 3,783 | 7.0 | +7.0 | |
| Progressives | Robert Knight | 837 | 1.6 | +1.6 | |
| Progressives | Stephen Lin | 614 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Animal Justice | Yana del Valle | 613 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Animal Justice | Edmund Handby | 464 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
| Sustainable Australia | Geoff Buckmaster | 461 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
| Sustainable Australia | Jill Mail | 374 | 0.7 | +0.1 | |
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Mark Gilmayer | 422 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | Gordon Yeatman | 339 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| Climate Change Justice | Peter Veenstra | 167 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
| Climate Change Justice | Jackson Hillman | 146 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
| Climate Change Justice | Andrew Demetrios | 133 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Climate Change Justice | Rohan Byrnes | 121 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Climate Change Justice | Richard Forner | 104 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Independent | Brendan Whyte | 243 | 0.5 | −0.1 | |
| Independent | Lee Perren-Leveridge | 126 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Total formal votes | 53,754 | 98.8 | +1.2 | ||
| Informal votes | 641 | 1.2 | −1.2 | ||
| Turnout | 54,395 | 90.8 | +0.9 | ||
| Party total votes | |||||
| Labor | 19,382 | 36.1 | +1.6 | ||
| Liberal | 19,122 | 35.6 | −7.2 | ||
| Greens | 6,303 | 11.7 | +1.1 | ||
| Independent | Fiona Carrick | 3,783 | 7.0 | +7.0 | |
| Progressives | 1,451 | 2.7 | +2.7 | ||
| Animal Justice | 1,077 | 2.0 | −0.1 | ||
| Sustainable Australia | 835 | 1.6 | +0.3 | ||
| Shooters, Fishers, Farmers | 761 | 1.4 | +1.4 | ||
| Climate Change Justice | 671 | 1.2 | +1.2 | ||
| Independent | Brendan Whyte | 243 | 0.5 | −0.1 | |
| Independent | Lee Perren-Leveridge | 126 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | +4.6 | |||
| Labor hold | Swing | +7.8 | |||
| Liberal hold | Swing | –7.2 | |||
| Liberal hold | Swing | –0.6 | |||
| Greens hold | Swing | +4.5 | |||
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