2004 Australian Capital Territory election

2004 Australian Capital Territory election

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All 17 seats of the unicameral Legislative Assembly 9 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jon Stanhope Brendan Smyth Kerrie Tucker Party Labor Liberal Greens Leader since 19 March 1998 25 November 2002 21 February 1998 Leader's seat Ginninderra Molonglo Molonglo (did not contest) Last election 8 seats 7 seats 1 seat Seats won 9 7 1 Seat change 1 Popular vote 95,635 71,083 18,997 Percentage 46.8% 34.8% 9.3% Swing 5.1 3.2 0.2
Results by electorate
Chief Minister before election Jon Stanhope Labor Elected Chief Minister Jon Stanhope Labor

Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday, 16 October 2004. The incumbent Labor Party, led by Jon Stanhope, was challenged by the Liberal Party, led by Brendan Smyth. Candidates were elected to fill three multi-member electorates using a single transferable vote method, known as the Hare-Clark system. The result was a clear majority of nine seats in the 17-member unicameral Assembly for Labor. It marked the first and so far only time in the history of ACT self-government that one party was able to win a majority in its own right. Stanhope was elected Chief Minister at the first sitting of the sixth Assembly on 4 November 2004.^[1] The election was conducted by the ACT Electoral Commission and was the second time in Australia's history that an electronic voting and counting system was used for some, but not all, polling places, expanding on the initial trial of the system at the 2001 ACT election.^[2]