Division of East Sydney

The Division of East Sydney was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1969. It was named for the suburb of East Sydney. It was located in the inner eastern suburbs of Sydney, including Darlinghurst, Paddington and Surry Hills. After 1910 East Sydney was usually a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party. In the 1930s it was a stronghold of Lang Labor. Its most prominent members were Sir George Reid, who was Prime Minister of Australia in 1904-05, and Eddie Ward, a long-serving Labor member and Cabinet minister.

[edit] Members

Member	Party	Term
Rt Hon Sir George Reid	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist, Liberal	1901-10
John West	ALP	1910-31
Eddie Ward	ALP-NSW	1931
John Clasby	UAP	1931-32
Hon Eddie Ward	Lang Labor, ALP	1932-63
Leonard Devine	ALP	1963-69