Australian Capital Territory general election, 2004

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16 October 2004

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All 17 seats of the unicameral Legislative Assembly

	First party	Second party

Leader	Jon Stanhope	Brendan Smyth
Party	Labor	Liberal
Leader since	19 March 1998	25 November 2002
Leader's seat	Ginninderra	Molonglo
Last election	8 seats	7 seats
Seats won	9 seats	7 seats
Seat change	1	0
Percentage	46.8%	34.8%
Swing	5.1	3.2

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 were won by Labor. The result 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. 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.

The incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party, led by Chief Minister Jon Stanhope, attempted to win re-election for a second term after coming to power in 2001. Labor was challenged by the opposition centre-right Liberal Party of Australia, led by Brendan Smyth, who assumed the Liberal leadership in November 2002. A third party, the ACT Greens, held one seat in the Assembly through retiring member, Kerrie Tucker.

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