Sydney is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Inner Sydney. It includes the commercial centre of the Sydney CBD; the suburbs and localities of Barangaroo, Broadway, Chinatown, Chippendale, Darling Harbour, Dawes Point, Elizabeth Bay, Haymarket, Millers Point, Paddington, Potts Point, Pyrmont, The Rocks, Ultimo, Woolloomooloo, Wynyard; and parts of Edgecliff, Rushcutters Bay, Surry Hills and Woollahra.
It is currently represented by Clover Moore, who is also the Lord Mayor of Sydney.
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In the first Parliament of the New South Wales colony, 1856-57, there was a four-member electoral district called Sydney City with voters casting four votes, and the four leading candidates being elected. In 1859, it was replaced by the four-member districts of East Sydney and West Sydney. In 1894, the three four-member districts of East Sydney, West Sydney and South Sydney (created in 1880) were replaced by ten single-member districts with "Sydney" in their title: Sydney-Belmore, Sydney-Bligh, Sydney-Cook, Sydney-Denison, Sydney-Fitzroy, Sydney-Flinders, Sydney-Gipps, Sydney-King, Sydney-Lang, Sydney-Phillip and Sydney-Pyrmont. From 1904, these electorates were renamed or abolished.
In 1920, the inner-city electoral districts of Belmore, Darlinghurst, King, Paddington, Phillip and Surry Hills were combined to create a new incarnation of Sydney, which elected five members by proportional representation. This was replaced by the single member electorates of King, Paddington, Phillip and Surry Hills for the 1927 election.
Sydney was recreated for the 2007 election, largely replacing the abolished district of Bligh.
| First incarnation (1920–1927, 5 members) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | Member | Party | Term | |||||
| Daniel Levy | Nationalist | 1920—1927 | Arthur Buckley | Labor | 1920—1922 | John Birt | Labor | 1920—1925 | Michael Burke | Labor | 1920—1922 | Patrick Minahan | Labor | 1920—1927 | |||||
| Joseph Jackson | Nationalist | 1922—1927 | Greg McGirr | Labor | 1922—1925 | ||||||||||||||
| Young Australia | 1925—1925 | ||||||||||||||||||
| William Holdsworth | Labor | 1925—1927 | Michael Burke | Labor | 1925—1927 | ||||||||||||||
| Second incarnation (2007–present, 1 member) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Term | |
| Clover Moore | Independent | 2007—present | |
| New South Wales state election, 2011: Sydney[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | Clover Moore | 16,909 | 36.3 | -3.3 | |
| Liberal | Adrian Bartels | 16,855 | 36.2 | +14.6 | |
| Greens | De Brierley Newton | 5,961 | 12.8 | -2.8 | |
| Labor | Sacha Blumen | 5,247 | 11.3 | -8.7 | |
| Andrew Patterson | 676 | 1.5 | +1.5 | ||
| Christian Democrats | Peter Madden | 508 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
| Fishing Party | Victor Shen | 464 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
| Total formal votes | 46,620 | 97.8 | 0.0 | ||
| Informal votes | 1,040 | 2.2 | 0.0 | ||
| Turnout | 47,660 | 83.9 | |||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Independent | Clover Moore | 20,651 | 53.1 | -13.5 | |
| Liberal | Adrian Bartels | 18,220 | 46.9 | +46.9 | |
| Independent hold | Swing | -13.5 | |||