Elections

Who won in each electorate, and how close it was, from Elections ACT results. See your current MLAs.

The next election: 2028

Due on Saturday 21 October 2028. ACT elections are held every four years on the third Saturday in October, as set by the Electoral Act.

Voting is compulsory if you’re enrolled, and you can enrol from 18. Check you’re enrolled at your current address with the Australian Electoral Commission, which keeps the roll for the ACT.
Public Matter doesn’t list 2028 candidates yet. Elections ACT publishes the official list once nominations close, a few weeks before polling day.
Electorate boundaries are reviewed during each Assembly term and can change before an election. Elections ACT announces any changes.

Official information: Elections ACT.

How your vote is counted

The ACT uses a system called Hare-Clark. Each of the five electorates elects five MLAs, so the Assembly has 25.

You number the candidates in order of your choice. The ballot asks you to number at least five. You can vote across parties and independents.
Candidates are printed in a different order on different ballots (called Robson Rotation), so no one gains from being first on the list.
A candidate is elected when they reach a quota: just over one sixth of the formal votes in the electorate (in 2024, 9,708 votes in Brindabella).
Votes they don’t need move on. An elected candidate’s extra votes pass to each voter’s next choice, at a reduced value. Then the candidate with the fewest votes is excluded and their votes pass on too. This repeats until five people are elected.
If an MLA leaves mid-term, there is no by-election. Their votes from the last election are counted again among candidates who stood and want the seat (a “count-back”).

Each electorate page below shows the count step by step: who reached a quota, who was excluded, and where their votes went.

First preferences and seats, 2016 to 2024

Each party’s share of first-preference votes across all five electorates, and the seats it won. There are 25 seats in the Assembly.

Labor

201638.4% · 12 seats
202037.8% · 10 seats
202434.1% · 10 seats

Canberra Liberals

201636.7% · 11 seats
202033.8% · 9 seats
202433.4% · 9 seats

ACT Greens

201610.3% · 2 seats
202013.5% · 6 seats
202412.2% · 4 seats

Independents for Canberra

2016Didn’t stand
2020Didn’t stand
20248.5% · 1 seat

Fiona Carrick Independent

2016Didn’t stand
2020Didn’t stand
20242.7% · 1 seat

Everyone else

201614.6% · 0 seats
202014.9% · 0 seats
20249.0% · 0 seats

First preferences only; preferences that moved between candidates during the count aren’t shown. “Everyone else” adds together all other parties and independents. 2016: 244,128 formal votes · 2020: 269,251 formal votes · 2024: 274,023 formal votes.

2024 election, 19 October 2024

Brindabella

58,246 formal votes · quota 9,708

Elected at the 2024 election, in count order

Mark PARTON (count 7)
Deborah MORRIS (count 23)
Caitlin TOUGH (count 26)
Taimus WERNER-GIBBINGS (count 29)
Laura NUTTALL (count 34)

Canberra Liberals43.2% · 2.59 quotas · 2 seats won
Labor33.8% · 2.03 quotas · 2 seats won
ACT Greens9.0% · 0.54 quotas · 1 seat won
Independents for Canberra7.6% · 0.46 quotas
Family First2.5% · 0.15 quotas
Animal Justice Party1.6% · 0.10 quotas

Show the other 2 groups

First Nation Party1.3% · 0.08 quotas
Ungrouped1.0% · 0.06 quotas