Australian Capital Territory general election, 2016

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All 25 seats of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
13 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Andrew Barr	Jeremy Hanson	Shane Rattenbury
Party	Labor	Liberal	Greens
Leader since	11 December 2014	11 February 2013	October 2012
Leader's seat	Kurrajong	Murrumbidgee	Kurrajong
Last election	8 seats, 38.9%	8 seats, 38.9%	1 seat, 10.7%
Seats won	12 seats	11 seats	2 seats
Seat change	4	3	1
Percentage	38.4%	36.7%	10.3%
Swing	0.5	2.2	0.5

Winning party seats by division for the Legislative Assembly.

Chief Minister before election

Andrew Barr
Labor

Elected Chief Minister

Andrew Barr
Labor

A general election for the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly was held on Saturday, 15 October 2016.

The 15-year incumbent Australian Labor Party (ACT Branch), led by Chief Minister Andrew Barr, won a fifth term over the main opposition Liberal Party, led by opposition leader Jeremy Hanson. On election night, ABC analyst Antony Green predicted that Labor would once again form a minority government with the support of the Greens, with Liberal leader Hanson saying in a speech it would be very difficult for the Liberals to win government. On 22 October, the final list of elected candidates was confirmed; the Labor Party winning 12 seats, the Liberal Party 11 seats and the Greens 2 seats. Labor and the Greens subsequently signed off on a formal Parliamentary Agreement, which outlined shared policy priorities and allowed Greens leader Shane Rattenbury to retain a seat in the Cabinet whilst mandating that the Greens not move or support any motion of no confidence in the Labor Government, except in instances of gross misconduct or corruption.

Prior to this election, candidates were elected to fill all 17 Legislative Assembly seats in the unicameral parliament which consisted of three multi-member electorates, Brindabella (five seats), Ginninderra (five seats) and Molonglo (seven seats), using a proportional representation single transferable vote method known as the Hare-Clark system. On 5 August 2014, the Assembly voted to increase the size of the Assembly to 25 members, elected from five electorates of five seats each. The Hare-Clark system continued.

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