The Election Commitments Costing Act 2012 specifies the circumstances and arrangements under which the Director-General of the ACT Treasury Directorate (i.e. the Under Treasurer) may be requested to cost party election commitments before and after polling day for an ACT Legislative Assembly election. More detail in relation to procedural arrangements and timeframes are provided in the Guidelines for Costing Election Commitments 2024 [PDF 388KB].
ACT election commitment costings for each political party can be found below:
Key Dates
General election dates
- The ACT Election will take place on 19 October 2024.
- The caretaker period commences on 13 September 2024.
- The Pre-Election Budget Update 2024 will be released by 18 September 2024.
Key election commitment costing dates
- The 2024 Election pre-polling costing period commences on 12 September 2024.
- While pre-polling election commitment costing requests can be submitted up until 18 October 2024, it will likely not practicable to cost an election commitment provided to Treasury later than Friday 11 October 2024.
- The post-polling costing period operates from 19 October 2024.
- Caretaker and the post-polling costing period cease on the date a Chief Minister elected on the first sitting day of the Legislative Assembly after election.
Withdrawn Costings
As outlined in section 6 of the Election Commitment Costing Act 2012, by providing written advice to the Under Treasurer, a party may withdraw a costing request at any time prior to the party being provided with a copy of the costing.
As outlined in section 9(5) of the Election Commitment Costing Act 2012, any costing request made before polling day that has not been costed and made publicly available before polling day is also taken to be withdrawn on polling day.
Consistent with the Guidelines for Costing Election Commitments 2024, and with a view to allowing the public scrutiny of costings, parties are advised that it will likely not be practicable to cost election commitment costing requests received by the Under Treasurer later than Friday 11 October 2024. Costing requests unable to be completed will be reflected as withdrawn on the ACT Government Election Commitment Costing website.
- The ACT Government Election Commitment Costing website will provide a statement with the following details:
- the date the request was received;
- the name of the requestor;
- the name of the election commitment; and
- a brief reason as to why the costing was not completed and publicly released prior to polling day.
- No further work will be undertaken on the costing request (section 9(6)).
Links
- Guidelines for Costing Election Commitments 2024 [
PDF 388KB] | DOCX [
134KB] - 2024 Standard costing parameters
- Request for costing an election commitment template
- Average salary costing template
2012, 2016 and 2020 Archives
ACT election commitment costings for each political party for 2012, 2016 and 2020 can be accessed via the links below.
2020
2016
2012
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