<?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>The ACT Legislative Assembly. Photo: Senthan Thani</caption> <div></div> <div><strong>Counting and the final distribution of preferences in last Saturday's ACT Legislative Assembly election are complete.</strong></div> <div></div> <div>Electoral commissioner Damian Cantwell has announced the names of the 25 candidates elected to represent the ACT’s five electorates in the Eleventh Assembly.</div> <div></div> <div>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.</div> <div></div> <div>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.</div> <div></div> <div>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.</div> <div></div> <div>Candidates to be declared as elected, in the order in which they were successful in the count, are:</div> <h3><span style="color: #800000;"> <strong>Brindabella</strong></span></h3> <div>•Mark Parton (Liberals)</div> <div>•Deborah Morris (Liberals)</div> <div>•Caitlin Tough (Labor)</div> <div>•Taimus Werner-Gibbings (Labor)</div> <div>•Laura Nuttall (Greens)</div> <h3><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Ginninderra</span></strong></h3> <div>•Tara Cheyne (Labor)</div> <div>•Yvette Berry (Labor)</div> <div>•Peter Cain (Liberals)</div> <div>•Jo Clay (Greens)</div> <div>•Chiaka Barry (Liberals)</div> <div></div> <div><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Kurrajong</strong></span></div> <div></div> <div>•Andrew Barr (Labor)</div> <div>•Elizabeth Lee (Liberals)</div> <div>•Rachel Stephen-Smith (Labor)</div> <div>•Shane Rattenbury (Greens)</div> <div>•Thomas Emerson (Independents for Canberra)</div> <h3><span style="color: #800000;">Murrumbidgee</span></h3> <div>•Jeremy Hanson (Liberals)</div> <div>•Chris Steel (Labor)</div> <div>•Fiona Carrick (Fiona Carrick Independents)</div> <div>•Ed Cocks (Liberals)</div> <div>•Marisa Paterson (Labor)</div> <h3><span style="color: #800000;"> Yerrabi</span></h3> <div>•Michael Pettersson (Labor)</div> <div>•Suzanne Orr (Labor)</div> <div>•Leanne Castley (Liberals)</div> <div>•James Milligan (Liberals)</div> <div>•Andrew Braddock (Greens)</div> </body>