Division of Sydney

The Division of Sydney is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.

This article is about the Australian federal electorate. For the New South Wales state electorate, see Electoral district of Sydney.

Sydney
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Sydney in New South Wales, as of the 2019 federal election.
Created1968
MPTanya Plibersek
PartyLabor
NamesakeSydney
Electors114,239 (2019)
Area44 km2 (17.0 sq mi)
DemographicInner Metropolitan

History
The city of Sydney, the division's namesake

The division draws its name from Sydney, the most populous city in Australia, which itself was named after former British Home Secretary Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. The division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 21 November 1968, replacing the old Division of Dalley, Division of East Sydney and Division of West Sydney, and was first contested at the 1969 election.

The seat is a safe Labor seat; the Labor Party has never polled less than 60% of the two-party preferred vote at any election. Following a national trend towards progressive inner-city voting, the seat had the highest amount of Green votes in any federal electorate in 2004, though by 2013 it had dropped to seventh-highest. The current Member for the Division of Sydney, since the 1998 federal election, is Tanya Plibersek, a member of the Australian Labor Party and former Deputy Leader of the Opposition. Sydney is currently Labor's third safest seat, with 68.67% on the 2PP.

As at the 2001 census, the electorate had the highest number of same-sex couples in Australia (2,265).[1]

Boundaries

The division is located around the City of Sydney and includes many inner suburbs such as Alexandria, Beaconsfield, Broadway, Chippendale, Darlington, Erskineville, Forest Lodge, Glebe, Haymarket, Millers Point, Pyrmont, Redfern, Rosebery, The Rocks, Ultimo, Waterloo, Zetland and parts of Annandale, Camperdown and Newtown in the Inner West, as well as Surry Hills, Darlinghurst, Potts Point, Woolloomooloo and Kings Cross in the Eastern Suburbs. Lord Howe Island, within the Tasman Sea and some 400 kilometres (250 mi) north-east of the Sydney central business district, is located within the division; as are the harbour islands from Spectacle Island to the Sydney Heads, and all the waters of Port Jackson, except for Middle Harbour and North Harbour.[2]

Members
Image Member Party Term Notes
  Jim Cope
(1907–1999)		 Labor 25 October 1969 –
11 November 1975		 Previously held the Division of Watson. Served as Speaker during the Whitlam Government. Retired
  Les McMahon
(1930–2015)		 Labor 13 December 1975 –
4 February 1983		 Lost preselection and retired
  Peter Baldwin
(1951–)		 Labor 5 March 1983 –
31 August 1998		 Previously a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Served as minister under Hawke and Keating. Retired
  Tanya Plibersek
(1969–)		 Labor 3 October 1998 –
present		 Served as minister under Rudd and Gillard. Incumbent

Election results
For a more comprehensive list, see Electoral results for the Division of Sydney.
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2019 Australian federal election in New South Wales § Sydney[edit]
2019 Australian federal election: Sydney[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labor Tanya Plibersek 46,850 49.41 +5.67
Liberal Jacqui Munro 25,230 26.61 −2.54
Greens Matthew Thompson 17,134 18.07 −0.74
Science Aaron Hammond 3,240 3.42 +1.87
United Australia Adam Holt 1,366 1.44 +1.44
Christian Democrats Rebecca Reddin 995 1.05 −0.64
Total formal votes 94,815 96.19 +2.18
Informal votes 3,754 3.81 −2.18
Turnout 98,569 86.30 +1.53
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Tanya Plibersek 65,110 68.67 +3.36
Liberal Jacqui Munro 29,705 31.33 −3.36
Labor hold Swing+3.36

References
  1. "Same-sex couples by Commonwealth Electoral Division". Australian Parliament House Library. Parliament of Australia. 15 June 2004. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  2. "Profile of the electoral division of Sydney (NSW)". Current federal electoral divisions, Divisions in New South Wales. Australian Electoral Commission. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  3. Sydney, NSW, Tally Room 2019, Australian Electoral Commission.

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