The Australian Electoral Commission today announced the final boundaries for the ACT at the next federal election. They haven’t made any changes to the draft boundaries announced in September.
This means that the northern seat of Fraser will be renamed ‘Fenner’ after virologist Frank Fenner, freeing up the former name for a Victorian seat to be renamed after former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
Antony Green estimates that the ALP’s margin in Canberra will increase from 7% to 7.4%, and will stay the same in Fraser/Fenner, at 12.6%.
In other news, the AEC recently announced its final boundaries for Western Australia. Frustratingly, the AEC is delaying releasing the final detailed maps for both WA and the ACT until January. It’s not a big deal in the ACT where there are no changes, but the final announcement for WA refers to a number of “minor boundary changes” which aren’t explained, making it impossible to be sure of the new boundaries, although the substantive changes have been announced. For this reason, I’ll wait until January before completing the WA federal map.
You can download the ACT map here.
Ironically, they name the electorate after ANU legend Frank Fenner in the same redistribution giving the ANU to the other electorate!
The WA state redistribution has also been finalised.
They’ve dropped the proposal to rename several districts for prominent individuals. A good thing in my view.
tomswann: The ANU’s Fenner Hall residence remains (just) in Fenner though I think.
Was it technically possible for the redistribution to reassign Jervis Bay Territory to Canberra rather than Fraser/Fenner?
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