Murrumbidgee electorate
| Murrumbidgee Australian Capital Territory—Legislative Assembly | |
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| Territory | Australian Capital Territory |
| Created | 2016 |
| Namesake | Murrumbidgee River |
| Electors | 59,323 (2020) |
| Area | 250 km2 (96.5 sq mi) |
| Coordinates | 35°18′40″S 148°59′38″E / 35.31111°S 148.99389°ECoordinates: 35°18′40″S 148°59′38″E / 35.31111°S 148.99389°E |
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.
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 and Yarralumla, and the eastern portion of the Tuggeranong suburb of Kambah.
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]
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 | |||||||||||
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Electorates 2016 election". Elections ACT. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Electoral Boundaries Redistribution 2019" (PDF). Augmented ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- Electorates of the Australian Capital Territory