The final make-up of the ACT Legislative Assembly electoral boundaries for the 2020 election has been announced today by the ACT Electoral Commissioner, Mr Damian Cantwell.

“The Augmented ACT Electoral Commission has decided to accept the electoral boundaries proposed by the ACT Redistribution Committee.

“The Augmented Commission decided that it would not uphold any of the objections to the proposed redistribution of the ACT’s electoral boundaries, as set out in its statement of reasons published today,” Mr Cantwell said.

The final electorates are:

Brindabella, a five Member electorate comprising the district of Tuggeranong (excluding the section of the Tuggeranong suburb of Kambah that is East of Drakeford Drive, and that portion of Tuggeranong District between Drakeford Drive and Athllon Drive) and the districts of Booth, Cotter River, Paddy’s River, Rendezvous Creek, Tennent and Mount Clear;

Ginninderra, a five Member electorate comprising the district of Belconnen (excluding the suburbs of Giralang and Kaleen);

Kurrajong, a five Member electorate comprising the district of Canberra Central (excluding the suburbs of Deakin and Yarralumla), and the districts of Jerrabomberra (including the entire suburb of Hume), Kowen and Majura;

Murrumbidgee, a five Member electorate comprising the districts of Molonglo Valley, Weston Creek, Woden Valley, Coree (including the village of Uriarra) and Stromlo, the section of the Tuggeranong suburb of Kambah that is East of Drakeford Drive, and that portion of Tuggeranong District between Drakeford Drive and Athllon Drive, and the Canberra Central suburbs of Deakin and Yarralumla; and

Yerrabi, a five Member electorate comprising the districts of Gungahlin and Hall and the Belconnen District suburbs of Giralang and Kaleen.

The ACT Legislative Assembly’s electoral boundaries have been redrawn in preparation for the 17 October 2020 election.

The Redistribution Committee published a proposed redistribution of the ACT into 5 electorates on 7 May 2019 and invited objections to the proposal by 3 June 2019.

Seven objections to the proposal were received by the Augmented Commission.

“The objections were carefully considered by the Augmented Commission.  The Augmented Commission decided that the objections did not raise any substantive new matters that had not already been addressed by the Redistribution Committee in its consideration of the public suggestions and comments.  Accordingly the Augmented Commission did not consider that it was necessary to hold a public hearing into the objections,” Mr Cantwell said.

The Augmented Commission has today published a detailed statement of reasons for its decision to accept the proposed boundaries unchanged, including an examination of each of the objections to the proposed boundaries.  The statement of reasons and the final map of the new boundaries is available online at www.elections.act.gov.au and from the office of the ACT Electoral Commission.

As the Augmented Commission has accepted the proposal of the Redistribution Committee without change, there are no further opportunities for public objections.  The Augmented Commission will formally complete the redistribution process in the near future by publication of a notifiable instrument of determination under section 35 of the Electoral Act and publication of a report concerning the redistribution.

The Augmented Commission comprises the members of the ACT Electoral Commission (Chairperson, Ms Dawn Casey; Electoral Commissioner, Mr Damian Cantwell AM; and Commission Member, Mr Philip Moss AM) and members of the Redistribution Committee (the Planning and land authority (Mr Ben Ponton), the Surveyor-General (Mr Jeffrey Brown) and the Director of Demography, Australian Bureau of Statistics (Ms Beidar Cho)).