Division of Sydney

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 (green) in New South Wales (Lord Howe Island not illustrated)
Created	1968
MP	Tanya Plibersek
Party	Labor
Namesake	Sydney
Electors	106,402 (2013)^[1]
Area	91 km² (35.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Sydney is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division draws it 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 East Sydney and Division of West Sydney, and was first contested at the 1969 election.

The division is located around the City of Sydney, and includes many inner suburbs such as Alexandria, Balmain, Beaconsfield, Birchgrove, Broadway, Chippendale, Darlington, Erskineville, Forest Lodge, Glebe, Haymarket, Millers Point, Pyrmont, Redfern, Rosebery, The Rocks, Ultimo, Waterloo, Zetland and parts of Annandale, Camperdown, Newtown, Rozelle, Surry Hills and the generic locality of Kings Cross which incorporates parts of the localities of Darlinghurst, Potts Point and Woolloomooloo. 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]

The current Member for the Division of Sydney, since the 1996 federal election, is Tanya Plibersek, a member of the Australian Labor Party and the current Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

History

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 the 2004 election. The Divisions of Melbourne and Grayndler topped Sydney for the highest Green vote at the 2007, 2010 and 2013 elections.^[1]^[3]^[4]

As at the 2001 census, the electorate had the highest number of same-sex couples in Australia (2,265).^[5]

Members

	Party	Term
Jim Cope	Labor	1969–1975
Les McMahon	Labor	1975–1983
Peter Baldwin	Labor	1983–1998
Tanya Plibersek	Labor	1998–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Sydney

Australian federal election, 2013: Sydney^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tanya Plibersek	40,579	46.03	+2.74
	Liberal	Sean O'Connor	26,901	30.52	+2.42
	Greens	Dianne Hiles	15,273	17.33	−6.42
	Independent	Jane Ward	1,408	1.60	+0.06
	Palmer United	Tim Kelly	1,261	1.43	+1.43
	Bullet Train	Leah Gartner	791	0.90	+0.90
	Christian Democrats	Lesley Mason	723	0.82	+0.82
	Socialist Alliance	Peter Boyle	613	0.70	+0.70
	Independent	Joanna Rzetelski	602	0.68	+0.68
Total formal votes			88,151	93.80	−0.70
Informal votes			5,830	6.20	+0.70
Turnout			93,981	88.33	+0.18
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Tanya Plibersek	56,994	64.65	−2.42
	Liberal	Sean O'Connor	31,157	35.35	+2.42
	Labor hold		Swing	−2.42

References

1 2 3 "NSW Division - Sydney, NSW". Virtual Tally Room,. Australian Electoral Commission. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
↑ "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.
↑ "Grayndler, NSW". Election 2013. Australian Electoral Commission. 4 October 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
↑ "Melbourne, Victoria". Election 2013. Australian Electoral Commission. 18 October 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
↑ "Same-sex couples by Commonwealth Electoral Division". Australian Parliament House Library. Parliament of Australia. 15 June 2004. Retrieved 18 November 2013.

External links

Division of Sydney - Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in New South Wales

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Coordinates: 33°53′42″S 151°12′00″E / 33.895°S 151.200°E / -33.895; 151.200

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