Ginninderra electorate

The Ginninderra electorate is one of the five electorates for the unicameral 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It elects five members.

Ginninderra
Australian Capital Territory—Legislative Assembly
TerritoryAustralian Capital Territory
Created1995
Electors63,188 (2020)
Area105 km2 (40.5 sq mi)
Coordinates35°13′41″S 149°2′17″E

History

It was created in 1995, when the three-electorate, Hare-Clark electoral system was first introduced for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Prior to 1995, a multi-member single constituency existed for the whole of the ACT. The name "Ginninderra" is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning "sparkling like the stars". It is the name given to the creek that flows through the middle of Belconnen, which was dammed to form Lake Ginninderra, the lake on which the Belconnen Town Centre is sited.[1]

Location

The Ginninderra electorate comprises the southern part of the district of Belconnen, including the suburbs of Aranda, Belconnen, Bruce, Charnwood, Cook, Dunlop, Evatt, Florey, Flynn, Fraser, Hawker, Higgins, Holt, Latham, Lawson, Macgregor, Macnamara, Macquarie, Melba, McKellar, Page, Scullin, Spence, Strathnairn and Weetangera.

Two Belconnen suburbs, Giralang and Kaleen are part of Yerrabi.

From 1995 to 2001 it contained the Canberra districts of Belconnen and Hall.[2] After the 2001 Redistribution the Gungahlin suburb of Nicholls was moved to the electorate.[3] The 2008 Redistribution made no changes to the boundaries of the electorate.[4]

In the 2012 Redistribution the Gungahlin suburbs of Crace and Palmerston were moved from Molonglo into Ginninderra. [5]

In the 2016 redistribution, all three Gungahlin suburbs, the village of Hall, and the Belconnen suburbs of Evatt, Giralang, Kaleen, Lawson and McKellar were transferred into the new Yerrabi electorate.[6] At the 2020 redistribution, the suburbs of Evatt, Lawson and McKellar were transferred back into Ginninderra.[7]

Members
Year Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party
1995   Roberta McRae Labor   Wayne Berry Labor   Lucy Horodny Greens   Harold Hird Liberal   Bill Stefaniak Liberal
1998   Jon Stanhope Labor   Dave Rugendyke Independent
2001   Roslyn Dundas Democrats   Vicki Dunne Liberal
2004   Mary Porter Labor
2008   Meredith Hunter Greens   Alistair Coe Liberal
20111   Chris Bourke Labor
2012   Yvette Berry Labor
20162   Jayson Hinder Labor
2016   Tara Cheyne Labor   Gordon Ramsay Labor   Elizabeth Kikkert Liberal
2020   Jo Clay Greens   Peter Cain Liberal
1 Jon Stanhope (Labor) resigned from the Assembly on 16 May 2011. Chris Bourke (Labor) was elected as his replacement on a countback on 30 May 2011.[8]
2 Mary Porter (Labor) resigned from the Assembly on 19 February 2016. Jayson Hinder (Labor) was elected as her replacement on a countback on 7 March 2016.[9]

See also

References
  1. "Electorates 2008 election". ACT Electoral Commission. 2008. Archived from the original on 14 September 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
  2. "Electorates 1995 and 1998 elections". ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  3. "Electorates 2001 and 2004 elections". ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  4. "Electorates 2008 election". ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  5. "Electorates 2012 election". ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  6. "Electorates 2016 election". ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  7. "Electorates 2020 election". ACT Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  8. "Casual vacancy count-back result: Mr Chris Bourke to be elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly". ACT Electoral Commission. 30 May 2011. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  9. "Casual vacancy count-back result: Jayson Hinder to be elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly". ACT Electoral Commission. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
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