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For the former New South Wales electorate, see Electoral district of Murrumbidgee. Australian electorate
Murrumbidgee
Australian Capital Territory—Legislative Assembly
TerritoryAustralian Capital Territory
Created2016
NamesakeMurrumbidgee River
Electors59,323 (2020)
Area250 km (96.5 sq mi)
Federal electorate(s)
Coordinates35°18′40″S 148°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.

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.

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. 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.

Members

Year Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party
2016 Bec Cody Labor Chris Steel Labor Caroline Le Couteur Greens Jeremy Hanson Liberal Giulia Jones Liberal
2020 Marisa Paterson Labor Emma Davidson Greens
2022 Ed Cocks Liberal
2024 Fiona Carrick Fiona Carrick Independent

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

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for Murrumbidgee electorate This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Australian Capital Territory election § Murrumbidgee.
2020 Australian Capital Territory election: Murrumbidgee
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

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. "2020 results by electorate". ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
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