Murrumbidgee electorate
Australian electorate
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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 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″S 148°59′38″E | ||||||||||||||
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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
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| 2024 | Fiona Carrick | Fiona Carrick Independent | |||||||||||||
1Giulia Jones (Liberal) resigned on 2 June 2022. Ed Cocks (Liberal) was elected as her replacement on countback on 20 June 2022[4]
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Quota | 9,309 | ||||
| Liberal | Jeremy Hanson (elected 1) | 7,380 | 13.2 | −2.1 | |
| Liberal | Ed Cocks (elected 4) | 4,027 | 7.2 | +2.3 | |
| Liberal | Amardeep Singh | 4,019 | 7.2 | +1.2 | |
| Liberal | Karen Walsh | 2,486 | 4.5 | +4.5 | |
| Liberal | Elyse Heslehurst | 1,666 | 3.0 | +3.0 | |
| Labor | Chris Steel (elected 2) | 6,345 | 11.4 | −2.4 | |
| Labor | Marisa Paterson (elected 5) | 5,176 | 9.3 | +1.5 | |
| Labor | Nelson Tang | 3,542 | 6.3 | +6.3 | |
| Labor | Anna Whitty | 1,990 | 3.6 | +3.6 | |
| Labor | Noor El-Asadi | 1,476 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
| Fiona Carrick Independent | Fiona Carrick (elected 3) | 6,691 | 12.0 | +5.0 | |
| Fiona Carrick Independent | Marea Fatseas | 341 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| Fiona Carrick Independent | Bruce Paine | 271 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
| Greens | Emma Davidson | 2,967 | 5.3 | −1.5 | |
| Greens | Sam Carter | 840 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
| Greens | Harini Rangarajan | 791 | 1.4 | +1.4 | |
| Greens | Michael Brewer | 605 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Independents for Canberra | Paula McGrady | 792 | 1.4 | +1.4 | |
| Independents for Canberra | Anne-Louise Dawes | 624 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Independents for Canberra | Nathan Naicker | 593 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Independents for Canberra | Robert Knight | 375 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| Independents for Canberra | Kathleen Bolt | 356 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| Family First | Andrew Copp | 503 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
| Family First | Andy Verri | 389 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| Independent | Rima Diab | 862 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
| Animal Justice | Gwenda Griffiths | 389 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
| Animal Justice | Ashleigh Griffiths-Smith | 353 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| Total formal votes | 55,849 | 98.4 | −0.4 | ||
| Informal votes | 930 | 1.6 | +0.4 | ||
| Turnout | 56,779 | 88.1 | −2.7 | ||
| Party total votes | |||||
| Liberal | 19,578 | 35.1 | −0.5 | ||
| Labor | 18,529 | 33.2 | −2.9 | ||
| Fiona Carrick Independent | 7,303 | 13.1 | +13.1 | ||
| Greens | 5,203 | 9.3 | −2.4 | ||
| Independents for Canberra | 2,740 | 4.9 | +4.9 | ||
| Family First | 892 | 1.6 | +1.6 | ||
| Independent | Rima Diab | 862 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
| Animal Justice | 742 | 1.3 | −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 | |||