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