Murrumbidgee electorate

For the former New South Wales electorate, see Electoral district of Murrumbidgee.

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
Territory	Australian Capital Territory
Created	2016
Namesake	Murrumbidgee River
Electors	59,323 (2020)
Area	250 km2 (96.5 sq mi)
Federal electorate(s)	Bean Canberra
Coordinates	35°18′40″S 148°59′38″E
Electorates around Murrumbidgee: Goulburn (NSW) Ginninderra Kurrajong Goulburn (NSW) Murrumbidgee Kurrajong Brindabella Brindabella Brindabella

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
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

Main article: Electoral results for Murrumbidgee electorate

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Australian Capital Territory election § Murrumbidgee.[edit]

2024 Australian Capital Territory election: Murrumbidgee^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
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

See also

• Australian Capital Territory Electoral Commission