2024 Australian Capital Territory election

2024 Australian Capital Territory election

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All 25 seats in the Legislative Assembly 13 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	86.8% ( 2.5 pp)
First party Second party   Leader Andrew Barr Elizabeth Lee Party Labor Liberal Leader since 11 December 2014 27 October 2020 Leader's seat Kurrajong Kurrajong Last election 10 seats, 37.8% 9 seats, 33.8% Seats before 10 9 Seats won 10 9 Seat change Primary vote 93,569 91,652 Percentage 34.1% 33.5% Swing 3.7 0.3   Third party Fourth party   Leader Shane Rattenbury Thomas Emerson Party Greens IFC Leader since 20 October 2012 29 January 2024 Leader's seat Kurrajong Kurrajong (won seat) Last election 6 seats, 13.5% Did not exist Seats before 6 0 Seats won 4 1 Seat change 2 1 Primary vote 33,368 23,328 Percentage 12.2% 8.5% Swing 1.3 8.5
Map of electorates to be used for the 2024 ACT election
Chief Minister before election Andrew Barr Labor–Greens Coalition Elected Chief Minister Andrew Barr Labor

The 2024 Australian Capital Territory election was held on 19 October 2024 to elect all 25 members of the unicameral ACT Legislative Assembly.^[1]

The centre-left Labor Party, led by Chief Minister Andrew Barr, which had been in government in the territory since the 2001 election, and in coalition with the progressive Greens since 2012, sought to win a seventh consecutive term in office. They were challenged by the centre-right Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee, as well as several minor parties and independent candidates. Lee is the first Asian Australian leader of a state or territory opposition.^[2][a]

Following several hours of vote counting, media outlets and election analysts projected Labor had won the election, having won sufficient seats to form a government with the support of the Greens and potentially other crossbenchers.^[3][4] Labor won 10 seats in the assembly, steady with their result in the previous election, though the party did suffer a swing against them of more than three percent.

The Liberal vote slipped by around half a point and the party retained nine seats. The Greens vote also dropped, in this case by slightly above one percent, and ministers Rebecca Vassarotti and Emma Davidson lost their seats to reduce the party's share of seats in the chamber to four. The swings against these parties were picked up by minor parties and independents, resulting in Thomas Emerson of the Independents for Canberra party winning a seat in Kurrajong and Fiona Carrick (who ran under an eponymous party banner) winning the final seat in Murrumbidgee.^[5][6] This would be the first election since 2001 a party, other then labor-liberal-green to win a seat.

Unlike the previous three elections, Labor and the Greens did not enter into a coalition government in the eleventh assembly. On 6 November 2024, Greens leader Shane Rattenbury stated that negotiations between the two parties had not advanced to the stage that would necessitate a power-sharing arrangement.^[7] The two parties unveiled a confidence and supply agreement later that day, in which the Greens pledged to provide confidence and supply to a minority Labor government.^[8]

The election was conducted by Elections ACT.

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