The incumbent Labor Party led by Chief Minister Katy Gallagher attempted to win re-election for a historic fourth term after 11 years in government in the 17-member unicameral ACT Legislative Assembly.

Joy Burch* Bec Cody Mick Gentleman* Mike Kinniburgh Karl Maftoum Val Jeffery Nicole Lawder Zed Seselja* Brendan Smyth* Andrew Wall* Amanda Bresnan Johnathan Davis Ben Murphy Mark Erwood Adam Henschke Burl Doble Kieran Jones-Ellis Mark Gibbons (-) Michael Lindfield (Ind) Calvin Pearce (Ind) Five seats were up for election.

Yvette Berry* Chris Bourke* Jayson Hinder Glen McCrea Mary Porter* Alistair Coe* Vicki Dunne* Merinda Nash Jacob Vadakkedathu Matt Watts James Higgins Meredith Hunter Hannah Parris Chic Henry Darryl Walford Mustafa Jawadi Matt Thompson Majlinda Bitani Nehmat Nana Jbeili Karamia Lê Marion Lê Kate Reynolds Chris Bucknell Tony Halton Darren Churchill (-) Emmanuel Ezekiel-Hart (Ind) Norm Gingell (Ind) Glen Takkenberg (-) Seven seats were up for election.

Elected in this election were 3 Labour (Barr, Corbell, Gallagher), 2 Liberals (Doszpot, Hanson), and two Greens (Le Coutour, Rattenbury) Andrew Barr* Simon Corbell* Angie Drake Meegan Fitzharris Katy Gallagher* Mark Kulasingham David Mathews Steve Doszpot* Murray Gordon Jeremy Hanson* Giulia Jones* Elizabeth Lee James Milligan Tom Sefton Alan Kerlin Caroline Le Couteur Shane Rattenbury* Adriana Siddle Ian Gardner Trisha Jha David Cumbers Mark Curran Tim Bohm Shelley Dickerson Stuart Biggs (-) Philip Pocock (Ind)

After the distribution of preferences neither of the two major parties had won sufficient number of seats to form government in their own right and would need the support of the sole Greens representative Shane Rattenbury.

While Labor leader Katy Gallagher wanted to renew the cooperation with the Greens from the previous election period, Liberal leader Zed Seselja argued that in the light of the overall losses of the previous Labor-Green alliance, the strong Liberal gain of 7.3%, and a historic tie in both seats and percentage (38.9% for each major party), with his party having received 41 more preference votes than Labor, the Liberals as the formally strongest party should lead the new Government.

After a week of negotiations with both major parties, Shane Rattenburry came to a formal agreement with the Labor Party to form a Coalition Government, which meant that he would be appointed to the cabinet, and implement nearly 100 policies and reforms mainly regarding the rail network in Canberra, the clean up of Canberra's lakes, the ACT's climate change targets, the Gonski education reforms and the reduction of homelessness.