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Federal division, inner-metropolitan

# Canberra

In Australian Capital Territory.

## Sitting member

- [ **Alicia Payne** Labor, Canberra ](https://politics.computer/mp/alicia-payne)

About

## About Canberra

Canberra is an inner-metropolitan federal electoral division in the Australian Capital Territory, covering central Canberra, Majura, Kowen and parts of Belconnen, Woden Valley and Jerrabomberra. It is held by Alicia Payne of the Australian Labor Party. The division includes Parliament House.

Named after

The city of Canberra, Australia's national capital

Created

Redistribution gazetted 19 April 1974

Classification

Inner-metropolitan

Sitting member

Alicia Payne, Australian Labor Party

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%5Fof%5FCanberra), plus our own records. Sources last checked 11 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Canberra whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Canberra yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Canberra are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

## Other divisions in Australian Capital Territory

- [Bean](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/bean)
- [Fenner](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/fenner)

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