Australian Capital Territory general election, 2001

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20 October 2001

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All 17 seats of the unicameral Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	Jon Stanhope	Gary Humphries
Party	Labor	Liberal
Leader since	19 March 1998	18 October 2000
Leader's seat	Ginninderra	Molonglo
Last election	6 seats	7 seats
Seats won	8 seats	7 seats
Seat change	2	0
Percentage	41.7%	31.6
Swing	14.1	6.2

Chief Minister before election

Gary Humphries
Liberal

Elected Chief Minister

Jon Stanhope
Labor

Gary Humphries
Liberal

Jon Stanhope
Labor

Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday, 20 October 2001. The incumbent Liberal Party, led by Gary Humphries, was challenged by the Labor Party, led by Jon Stanhope. 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. However Labor, with the largest representation in the 17-member unicameral Assembly, formed Government with the support of the ACT Greens and Democrats. Stanhope was elected Chief Minister at the first sitting of the fifth Assembly on 12 November 2001. The election was conducted by the ACT Electoral Commission and was the first time in Australia's history that an electronic voting and counting system was used for some, but not all, polling places.

The incumbent centre-right Liberal Party of Australia, led by Chief Minister Gary Humphries, attempted to win election for a first time in his own right as Liberal leader, yet a third term after the Liberals had come to power in 1995. They were challenged by the opposition centre-left Australian Labor Party, led by Jon Stanhope, who assumed the Labor leadership in March 1998. A third party, the ACT Greens, held one seat in the Assembly through sitting member, Kerrie Tucker, as well as several minor parties that had been a feature of ACT politics up until this election.

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