<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>331815</docID> <postdate>2024-10-26 14:57:55</postdate> <headline>Official: the ACT election winners</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-209631" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SenPIXELS_3795.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="534" /></p> <caption>Photo: Senthan Thani</caption> <p><strong>Counting and the final distribution of preferences in last Saturday's ACT 's Legislative Assembly election is complete.</strong></p> <p>Electoral commissioner Damian Cantwell has announced the names of the 25 candidates elected to represent the ACT’s five electorates in the Eleventh Assembly.<u></u><u></u></p> <p>Labor has retained its 10 seats; the Liberals remain on nine; the Greens, two down, on four seats and one apiece for Independents for Canberra and Fiona Carrick Independents.</p> <p>There will be six new members in the Assembly, three from Brindabella where Joy Burch and Nicole Lawder retired and veteran minister Mick Gentleman lost his seat.</p> <p>In Ginninderra, Labor's Tara Cheyne outpolled her Deputy Chief Minister Yvette Berry. And in Murrumbidgee, Liberal Jeremy Hanson again topped the electorate; likewise Liberal Mark Parton in Brindabella.</p> <p>Candidates to be declared as elected, in the order in which they were successful in the count, are: <u></u></p> <h3><u></u><span style="color: #800000;"> <u></u><b>Brindabella</b></span><u></u><u></u></h3> <ul type="disc"> <li>Mark Parton (Liberals)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Deborah Morris (Liberals)</li> <li>Caitlin Tough (Labor)</li> <li>Taimus Werner-Gibbings (Labor)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Laura Nuttall (Greens)<u></u><u></u></li> </ul> <h3><u></u><span style="color: #800000;"> <u></u><b>Ginninderra</b></span><u></u><u></u></h3> <ul type="disc"> <li>Tara Cheyne (Labor)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Yvette Berry (Labor)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Peter Cain (Liberals)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Jo Clay (Greens)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Chiaka Barry (Liberals)<u></u><u></u></li> </ul> <h3><u></u><span style="color: #800000;"> <u></u><b>Kurrajong</b></span><u></u><u></u></h3> <ul type="disc"> <li>Andrew Barr (Labor)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Elizabeth Lee (Liberals)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Rachel Stephen-Smith (Labor)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Shane Rattenbury (Greens)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Thomas Emerson (Independents for Canberra)<u></u><u></u></li> </ul> <h3><u></u><span style="color: #800000;"> <u></u><b>Murrumbidgee</b></span><u></u><u></u></h3> <ul type="disc"> <li>Jeremy Hanson (Liberals)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Chris Steel (Labor)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Fiona Carrick (Fiona Carrick Independents) <u></u><u></u></li> <li>Ed Cocks (Liberals)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Marisa Paterson (Labor)<u></u><u></u></li> </ul> <h3><u></u><span style="color: #800000;"> <u></u><b>Yerrabi</b></span><u></u><u></u></h3> <ul type="disc"> <li>Michael Pettersson (Labor)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Suzanne Orr (Labor)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Leanne Castley (Liberals)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>James Milligan (Liberals)<u></u><u></u></li> <li>Andrew Braddock (Greens)<u></u><u></u></li> </ul> </body>