Murrumbidgee electorate

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Murrumbidgee
Australian Capital TerritoryLegislative Assembly
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Territory Australian Capital Territory
Created2016
Namesake Murrumbidgee River
Electors 59,323 (2020)
Area250 km2 (96.5 sq mi)
Federal electorate(s)
Coordinates 35°18′40″S148°59′38″E / 35.31111°S 148.99389°E / -35.31111; 148.99389
Electorates around Murrumbidgee:
NSW Ginninderra Kurrajong
NSW Murrumbidgee Kurrajong
NSW Brindabella Brindabella

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.

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History

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]

Location

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]

Members

YearMemberPartyMemberPartyMemberPartyMemberPartyMemberParty
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
2024 Fiona Carrick Fiona Carrick Independent

1 Giulia Jones (Liberal) resigned on 2 June 2022. Ed Cocks (Liberal) was elected as her replacement on countback on 20 June 2022 [4]

Election results

2024 Australian Capital Territory election: Murrumbidgee [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Quota 9,309
Liberal Jeremy Hanson (elected 1)7,38013.2−2.1
Liberal Ed Cocks (elected 4)4,0277.2+2.3
Liberal Amardeep Singh4,0197.2+1.2
Liberal Karen Walsh2,4864.5+4.5
Liberal Elyse Heslehurst1,6663.0+3.0
Labor Chris Steel (elected 2)6,34511.4−2.4
Labor Marisa Paterson (elected 5)5,1769.3+1.5
Labor Nelson Tang3,5426.3+6.3
Labor Anna Whitty1,9903.6+3.6
Labor Noor El-Asadi1,4762.6+2.6
Fiona Carrick Independent Fiona Carrick (elected 3)6,69112.0+5.0
Fiona Carrick Independent Marea Fatseas3410.6+0.6
Fiona Carrick Independent Bruce Paine2710.5+0.5
Greens Emma Davidson 2,9675.3−1.5
Greens Sam Carter 8401.5+1.5
Greens Harini Rangarajan7911.4+1.4
Greens Michael Brewer6051.1+1.1
Independents for Canberra Paula McGrady7921.4+1.4
Independents for Canberra Anne-Louise Dawes6241.1+1.1
Independents for Canberra Nathan Naicker5931.1+1.1
Independents for Canberra Robert Knight3750.7+0.7
Independents for Canberra Kathleen Bolt3560.6+0.6
Family First Andrew Copp5030.9+0.9
Family First Andy Verri3890.7+0.7
Independent Rima Diab8621.5+1.5
Animal Justice Gwenda Griffiths3890.7+0.7
Animal Justice Ashleigh Griffiths-Smith3530.6+0.6
Total formal votes55,84998.4−0.4
Informal votes9301.6+0.4
Turnout 56,77988.1−2.7
Party total votes
Liberal 19,57835.1−0.5
Labor 18,52933.2−2.9
Fiona Carrick Independent 7,30313.1+13.1
Greens 5,2039.3−2.4
Independents for Canberra 2,7404.9+4.9
Family First 8921.6+1.6
Independent Rima Diab8621.5+1.5
Animal Justice 7421.3−0.7
Liberal hold Swing −2.1
Liberal hold Swing +2.3
Labor hold Swing −2.4
Labor hold Swing +1.5
Fiona Carrick Independent gain from Greens Swing +5.0

See also

References

  1. "Electorates 2016 election". Elections ACT. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  2. "Electoral Boundaries Redistribution 2019" (PDF). Augmented ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  3. Government, A. C. T. (9 July 2024). "2023 redistribution". Elections ACT. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  4. "Casual vacancies in the tenth Legislative Assembly (2020-2024)". www.elections.act.gov.au. Australian Capital Territory Electoral Commission. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  5. "2024 Results for Electorate". Elections ACT. Retrieved 30 April 2025.