2008 ACT election

Australian Capital Territory general election, 2008

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18 October 2008

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All 17 seats of the unicameral Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jon Stanhope	Zed Seselja	Meredith Hunter
Party	Labor	Liberal	Greens
Leader since	19 March 1998	13 December 2007	October 2008
Leader's seat	Ginninderra	Molonglo	Ginninderra
Last election	9 seats	7 seats	1 seat
Seats won	7 seats	6 seats	4 seats
Seat change	2	1	3
Percentage	37.4%	31.6%	15.6%
Swing	9.4	3.2	6.3

Chief Minister before election

Jon Stanhope
Labor

Resulting Chief Minister

Jon Stanhope
Labor

Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday, 18 October 2008. The incumbent Labor Party, led by Jon Stanhope, was challenged by the Liberal Party, led by Zed Seselja. Candidates were elected to fill three multi-member electorates using a single transferable vote method, known as the Hare-Clark system. The result was another hung parliament with Labor winning seven seats, the Liberals six seats and the Greens finishing with four seats, giving the Greens the balance of power in the 17-member unicameral Assembly. On 31 October 2008, after almost two weeks of deliberations, the Greens chose to support a Labor minority government. Consequently, Labor was re-elected to a third consecutive term of government in the ACT. Stanhope was elected Chief Minister at the first sitting of the seventh Assembly on 5 November 2008.

The incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party, led by Chief Minister Jon Stanhope, attempted to win re-election for a third term after coming to power in 2001. They were challenged by the opposition centre-right Liberal Party of Australia, led by Zed Seselja, who assumed the Liberal leadership in December 2007. A third party, the ACT Greens, held one seat in the Assembly through retiring MLA Deb Foskey.

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