Division of West Sydney

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

West Sydney Australian House of Representatives Division
Created	1901
Abolished	1969
Namesake	West Sydney

The Division of West Sydney was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, and at various times included the suburbs of Pyrmont, Darling Harbour, Surry Hills, Balmain and Glebe.

West Sydney was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 seats to be contested at the first Federal election. It was abolished at the redistribution of 21 November 1968. It was the first of four seats to be held by Billy Hughes, the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia and the longest-serving member of the Australian Parliament. It was also held by T. J. Ryan, a former Premier of Queensland.

Members

	Party	Term
Billy Hughes	Labour	1901–1916
	National Labor	1916–1917
	Nationalist	1917–1917
Con Wallace	Labor	1917–1919
T. J. Ryan	Labor	1919–1921
William Lambert	Labor	1921–1928
Jack Beasley	Labor	1928–1931
	Labor (NSW)	1931–1936
	Labor	1936–1940
	Labor (Non-Communist)	1940–1941
	Labor	1941–1946
William O'Connor	Labor	1946–1949
Dan Minogue	Labor	1949–1969

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of West Sydney

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

Banks Barton Bennelong Berowra Blaxland Bradfield Calare Charlton Chifley Cook Cowper Cunningham Dobell Eden-Monaro Farrer Fowler Gilmore Grayndler Greenway Hughes Hume Hunter Kingsford Smith Lindsay Lyne Macarthur Mackellar Macquarie McMahon Mitchell New England Newcastle North Sydney Page Parkes Parramatta Paterson Reid Richmond Riverina Robertson Shortland Sydney Throsby Warringah Watson Wentworth Werriwa Abolished: Barrier Bland Canobolas Cook (1906–55) Dalley Darling Dundas East Sydney Evans Gwydir Illawarra Lang Lawson Lowe Martin Nepean Parkes (1901–69) Phillip Prospect Riverina-Darling St George South Sydney Watson (1934–69) West Sydney

Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

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