<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>329747</docID> <postdate>2024-09-25 17:42:11</postdate> <headline>Candidates crowding in for ACT election </headline> <body><p><strong>The October 19 ACT Legislative Assembly election will have 149 candidates vying for 25 MLA positions, with five seats available in each of the five electorates. </strong></p> <p>This is 12 more than 2020's 137 candidates and eight more than 2016's 141 hopefuls. This is also double the numbers from the two lowest number of candidates contesting in both 1995 and 2012 (74 each). However, there were three electorates with 17 members up until the 2016 election.</p> <p>The central electorate of Kurrajong has the highest number of candidates with 34 and the southern electorate of Brindabella the least, with 24.</p> <p><img class=" wp-image-329767" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-25-at-7.10.50 PM-e1727255549267.jpg" alt="" width="832" height="455" /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACT Electoral Commissioner, Damian Cantwell said postal voting would begin on on Monday, September 30 and early voting on Tuesday, October 8, with 11 early voting centres available across Canberra for the election.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"All Canberrans are eligible to vote early from October 8, and we're committed to helping all eligible ACT electors participate in the electoral process.’ Mr Cantwell said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Under the ACT’s Robson Rotation method, the order of the printing of candidates’ names within each column will vary on each consecutive ballot paper. Ballot papers for each of the five-member electorates are printed in 60 different ways.  </span></p> <p><img class=" wp-image-329750" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-25-at-4.49.38 PM.jpg" alt="" width="947" height="351" /></p> <p><strong>The Brindabella electorate has 24 candidates:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Canberra Liberals:</strong> James Daniels, ROsa Harber, Sandi Mitra, Deborah Morris and Mark Parton. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>ACT Greens:</strong> Sam Nugent, Laura Nuttall, and Troy Swan</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>First Nation Party:</strong> Wendy Brookman, Jack McDougall, and Dylan Robb</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Family First:</strong> Bruce Gartshore, Merle Graham</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Animal Justice Party:</strong> Gareth Ballard and Robyn Soxsmith</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>ACT Labor:</strong> Louise Crossman, Brendan Forde, Mick Gentleman, Caitlin Tough, and Taimus Werner-Gibbings</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Independents for Canberra:</strong> Riley Fernandes, Vanessa Picker, and Elise Searson</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Ungrouped:</strong> Emmanuel Ezekiel-Hart (Independent)</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>The Ginninderra electorate has 33 candidates:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>The ACT Greens:</strong> Jo Clay, Dani Hunter, Tim Liersch, and Adele Sinclair</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Family First:</strong> Sunil Baby, Elizabeth Kikkert, and Andrew Wallace</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Belco Party:</strong> Angela Lount, Bill Stefaniak, and Alan Tutt</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Animal Justice Party:</strong> Carolyne Drew, Lara Drew</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>ACT Labor:</strong> Tim Bavinton, Yvette Berry, Tara Cheyne, Heidi Prowse, and Sean Sadimoen</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Independents for Canberra:</strong> Leanne Foresti, Suzanne Nucifora, and Mark Richardson</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Labour DLP:</strong> Douglas Cooper, Helen Crowe, Rick Howard, Maxwell Spencer and John Vanderburgh</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Canberra Liberals:</strong> Chiaka Barry, Peter Cain, Joe Prevedello, and Darren Roberts</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Libertarian Party:</strong> Guy Jakeman and Arved Von Brasch</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Ungrouped:</strong> Mignonne Cullen (Independent) and Janine Haskins (Independent)</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>The Kurrajong electorate has 34 candidates: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>ACT Labor:</strong> Andrew Barr, Aggi Court, Martin Greenwood, Rachel Stephen-Smith, and Marina Talevski</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Independents for Canberra:</strong> Thomas Emerson, Ben Johnston, Tenzin Mayne, Sara Poguet, and Sue Read</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Family First:</strong> Andrew Charles Adair and Jenny Hentzschel</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>The ACT Greens:</strong> James Cruz, Isabel Mudford, Shane Rattenbury, Jillian Reid, and Rebecca Vassarotti</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Canberra Liberals:</strong> Ramon Bouckaert, Efthimios Calatzis, Elizabeth Lee, Sarah Luscombe, and Patrick Pentony</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Animal Justice Party:</strong> Walter Kudrycz and Teresa McTaggart</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Labor DLP:</strong> Belinda Haley and Boston White</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>First Nation Party:</strong> Rhiannon Connors, Thaddeus Connnors, Paul Girrawah House, Harrison Pike, and Jessika Spencer</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Strong Independents:</strong> Ann Bray and Peter Strong</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Ungrouped:</strong> Marilena Damiano (Independent)</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>The Murrumbidgee electorate has 27 candidates: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>ACT Labor:</strong> Noor El-Asadi, Marisa Paterson, Chris Steel, Nelson Tang, and Anna Whitty</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Independents for Canberra:</strong> Kathleen Bolt, Anne-Louise Dawes, Robert Knight, Paula McGrady, and Nathan Naicker</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Family First:</strong> Andrew Copp and Andy Verri</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Fiona Carrick Independent:</strong> Fiona Carrick, Marea Fatseas and Bruce Paine</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Canberra Liberals:</strong> Ed Cocks, Jeremy Hanson, Elyse Heslehurst, Amardeep Singh, and Karen Walsh</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Animal Justice Party:</strong> Gwenda Griffiths and Ashleigh Griffiths-Smith</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>The ACT Greens:</strong> Michael Brewer, Sam Carter, Emma Davidson, and Harini Rangarajan</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Ungrouped:</strong> Rima Diab (Independent)</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>The Yerrabi electorate has 31 candidates:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>The ACT Greens:</strong> Andrew Braddock, Soëlily Consen-Lynch, and Alex Gias, </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Belco Party:</strong> Gregory Burke and Jason Taylor</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Labour DLP:</strong> Michael Hanna and Colin Jory</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Canberra Liberals:</strong> Leanne Castley, Ralitsa Dimitrova, John Mikita, James Milligan, and Krishna Nadimpalli</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Family First: </strong>Greg Amos and Henry Kivimaki</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>First Nation Party:</strong> Lisa Barnes, Michael Duncan, Kye Moggridge, Cooper Pike, and Tyson Powell</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>ACT Labor:</strong> Suzanne Orr, Michael Pettersson, Mallika Raj, Ravinder Sahni, and Pradeep Sornaraj</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Independents for Canberra:</strong> Sneha Kc, Vikram Kulkarni, David Pollard, and Trent Pollard</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Ungrouped:</strong> Joanne McKinley (Animal Justice Party), Mohammad Munir Hussainn and Fuxin Li (Independent)</span></li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Postal voting will start on September 30, as well as the commencement of attendance early voting on October 8, with 11 early voting centres to be available.</p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Opening times for early voting places</span></strong> </span></h3> <ul> <li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">October 8-October 11: 10.30am-6.30pm </span></em></li> <li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">October 12: 9am-5pm </span></em></li> <li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">October 14-October 17: 10.30am-6.30pm </span></em></li> <li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">October 18: 9am-8pm </span></em></li> <li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">October 19: 8am-6pm </span></em></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Early voting centres are listed <a href="https://www.elections.act.gov.au/for-voters/how-and-where-to-vote/where-to-vote-early-voting">here</a>. </span></p> <p>Candidates for all electorates are listed <a href="https://www.elections.act.gov.au/for-voters/candidates-2024">here</a></p> <p>https://citynews.com.au/2024/embattled-kikkert-to-fight-on-for-family-first/</p> <p><img class="size-full wp-image-329752" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Map-2023-Final-Boundaries.jpg" alt="" width="1653" height="2339" /></p> <caption>Electoral map 2024-2028</caption> <p> </p> </body>