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Canberra

Results and projection across recent federal elections.

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Projection for Canberra

ALP
40.2%
GRN
19.4%
ONP
16.7%
LIB
14.9%

The line traces Canberra's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for inner-metropolitan seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. ACT has no dedicated state-level polling of its own (too few seats for a pollster to break out), so unlike most other states, Canberra's actual projection number really is classification-only, same as this chart's shape. There's only one projection number for Canberra, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Labor wins in 82% of simulations
Labor 70.5%
One Nation 29.5%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. The win-probability figure above comes from a separate 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation (see the Election Map page for methodology) built on this same TCP margin — it's how often that margin survives national polling uncertainty plus seat-level noise, not a different projection.

Get to know the electorate

Canberra

4%
Unemployment rate
1.1pt below Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Inner-metropolitan
Created
1974
Size
312 km²
Current member
Alicia Payne (Labor)
Population
145,507
Median age
35
Median household income
$2,419/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
1.4%

Ancestry

European
58.3%
Australian
30.4%
Asian
6.7%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
72.7%
Mandarin
3.8%
Nepali
1.0%
Vietnamese
1.0%
Cantonese
1.0%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

No Religion
49.7%
Christian
23.8%
Hinduism
3.2%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

University Educated
52.8%
High School
24.9%
TAFE Educated
13.6%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Renting
38%
Owned (Active Mortgage)
31%
Owned (No Mortgage)
28%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

White collar
76%
Blue collar
22%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | Canberra

20222025Projection
ALP44.9%48.3%40.2%
LIB21.8%18.3%14.9%
GRN24.7%19.8%19.4%
ONP1.7%—16.7%
Independent5.2%10.9%7.2%
Other1.8%2.7%1.7%

Latest update: 2 October 2026