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 Fenner
Coordinates	35°18′40″S 148°59′38″E
Electorates around Murrumbidgee: NSW Ginninderra Kurrajong NSW Murrumbidgee Kurrajong NSW 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

2020 Australian Capital Territory election: Murrumbidgee^[5]

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

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Australian Capital Territory election § Murrumbidgee.[edit]

See also

• Australian Capital Territory Electoral Commission