The Ginninderra electorate is one of the five electorates for the

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25-member

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. It elects five members.

History

It was created in 1995, when the three-electorate, Hare-Clark electoral system was first introduced for the

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(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

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, which was dammed to form Lake Ginninderra, the lake on which the Belconnen Town Centre is sited.

Location

The Ginninderra electorate comprises the southern part of the district of

, including the suburbs of Aranda,

, Bruce, Charnwood,

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, Dunlop, Evatt, Florey, Flynn,

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, Hawker, Higgins,

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, Latham,

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, Melba,

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and Weetangera. Two Belconnen suburbs, Giralang and Kaleen are part of Yerrabi. From 1995 to 2001 it contained the

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districts of

and Hall. After the 2001 redistribution the

Gungahlin The District of Gungahlin () is one of the original eighteen districts of the Australian Capital Territory used in land administration. The Gungahlin Region is one of fastest growing regions within Australia. The district is subdivided into div ...

suburb of Nicholls was moved to the electorate. The 2008 redistribution made no changes to the boundaries of the electorate. In the 2012 redistribution the Gungahlin suburbs of Crace and

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were moved from Molonglo into Ginninderra. In the 2016 redistribution, all three Gungahlin suburbs, the village of Hall, and the Belconnen suburbs of Evatt, Giralang, Kaleen,

and

were transferred into the new Yerrabi electorate. At the 2020 redistribution, the suburbs of Evatt, Lawson and McKellar were transferred back into Ginninderra.

Members

:¹

Jon Stanhope Jonathan Donald Stanhope (born 29 April 1951) is a former Australian politician who was Labor Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2001 to 2011. Stanhope represented the Ginninderra electorate in the ACT Legislative Assemb ...

(Labor) resigned from the Assembly on 16 May 2011.

Chris Bourke Christopher John Bourke is an Australian politician, a Labor member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Ginninderra from 2011 to 2016. He was the first Indigenous Australian elected to the A ...

(Labor) was elected as his replacement on a countback on 30 May 2011. :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.

References

External links

ACT Electoral Commission

ACT Legislative Assembly - List of Members (1989 - 2008)
{{Government of the Australian Capital Territory Electorates of the Australian Capital Territory

History

Location

Members

See also

References

External links