Gary Humphries Liberal Jon Stanhope Labor Elections to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly were held on Saturday, 20 October 2001.

Candidates were elected to fill three multi-member electorates using a single transferable vote method, known as the Hare-Clark system.

However Labor, with the largest representation in the 17-member unicameral Assembly, formed Government with the support of the ACT Greens and Democrats.

[1] 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.

During 2000, Chief Minister, Kate Carnell, faced continual criticism over cost blowouts in the redevelopment of Bruce Stadium.

On Monday, 24 September 2001, Meninga declared his candidacy for the ACT Legislative Assembly, running for the electorate of Molonglo.

[6] Moments after announcing that he would run for election, Meninga pulled out mid-sentence: "And the thing about that is, I guess, I was a public figure and I was put on the podium where I was just a person out there .

John Hargreaves* Karin MacDonald* Trevor Santi Athol Williams Bill Wood* Steve Doszpot Megan O'Connor Steve Pratt* Winnifred Rosser Brendan Smyth* Sue Ellerman Kathryn Kelly Jeannette Jolley Domenic Mico Mike Welch Donna Bush Paul Osborne Sandie Brooke Trevor Kaine Bradley Brown Darren Kennedy Danny Alameddine (Ind) May Levantis Bob Mackenzie Len Munday (Ind) Bruce Sutherland (Ind) Maria Trudinger (Nurses) Five seats were up for election.

Wayne Berry* John Downey Susan McCarthy Vic Rebikoff Jon Stanhope* Vicki Dunne* Ilona Fraser Harold Hird Andrew Sarri Bill Stefaniak* Shane Rattenbury Patricia Woodcroft-Lee Anthony David Roslyn Dundas* Dan McMillan Ian Brown Dave Rugendyke John Humphreys Susan Morrissey Gail Jones John Simsons Geoff Clarke Chris Garvie (Ind) Shaun Good (Ind) Darcy Henry Rhonda James (Nurses) Seven seats were up for election.

Simon Corbell* Katy Gallagher* Fred Leftwich John O'Keefe Ted Quinlan* Marion Reilly Christina Ryan Jacqui Burke Greg Cornwell* Helen Cross* Gary Humphries* Amalia Matheson Mark Spill Manuel Xyrakis Deb Foskey Michael Nolan Kerrie Tucker* Victoria Young Eric Bray Jane Errey Stella Jones Isabel Walters Colin Cartwright Alan Parker Claire James Nancy McCullough Joel Pasternak Lucinda Spier Brett Graham John Purnell-Webb Duncan Spender Jonathon Reynolds Ian Ruecroft Phillip Hickox Robyn Staniforth Pamela Ayson Hilary Back Ian Black Marnie Black Tania Gelonesi Melanie Marshall Following a full count and distribution of preferences, Labor had obtained 41.7 per cent of the vote across the ACT, with the Liberals at 31.6 per cent, the Greens at 9.1 per cent, and the Democrats at 8.0 per cent.

With the retirement of Michael Moore and poor polling by both Paul Osborne and Dave Rugendyke, support for independent candidates collapsed.

[10] Labor, with a majority of seats in the Assembly, formed a minority government, with the support of the Greens and Democrats.

The Democrats won its first seat in the Assembly, with Roslyn Dundas defeating independent Dave Rugendyke.

Bill Stefaniak was re-elected, with Vicki Dunne replacing the Liberal-truend-independent, Harold Hird as the second Liberal member.

Katy Gallagher won the additional seat, following the retirement of long-serving independent member, Michael Moore.

However, adapting this system to the Robson Rotation method of printing variations of the ballot papers was an ACT innovation, used for the first time in Australia at the 2001 election.

In considering the request, the Commissioner and the full Commission had regard to the level of accuracy achieved by the data entry of paper ballots and the computer count.