Division 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 km^2 (35.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

1st Viscount Sydney

The Division of Sydney is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. It is named for Sydney, which itself was named after former British Home Secretary Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. It was set up for the 1969 election to replace the old Division of East Sydney and Division of West Sydney.

The division is located around Sydney, and includes the suburbs of Alexandria, Balmain, Beaconsfield, Birchgrove, Broadway, Chippendale, Darlington, Erskineville, Forest Lodge, Glebe, Haymarket, Millers Point, Pyrmont, Redfern, Rosebery, Surry Hills, The Rocks, Ultimo, Waterloo, Zetland and parts of Annandale, Camperdown, Newtown, and Rozelle. The islands in Port Jackson from Spectacle Island to the Sydney Heads are included as well as Lord Howe Island in the Tasman.^[2]

Members

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

Tanya Plibersek served in both the Rudd and Gillard governments as Minister for Health, Minister for Human Services and Minister for Housing. She has been Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Leader of the Labor Party since 2013.

Election results

2022 Australian federal election: Sydney[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Tanya Plibersek	52,410	50.82	+1.41
	Greens	Chetan Sahai	23,732	23.01	+4.94
	Liberal	Alexander Andruska	20,276	19.66	−6.95
	United Australia	Ryan McAlister	2,298	2.23	+0.79
	One Nation	Ben Ferguson	1,889	1.83	+1.83
	Socialist Alliance	Andrew Chuter	1,518	1.47	+1.47
	Australian Citizens	Wen Zhou	1,002	0.97	+0.97
Total formal votes			103,125	96.72	+0.53
Informal votes			3,499	3.28	−0.53
Turnout			106,624	85.01	−1.29
Notional two-party-preferred count
	Labor	Tanya Plibersek	77,933	75.57	+6.90
	Liberal	Alexander Andruska	25,192	24.43	−6.90
Two-candidate-preferred result
	Labor	Tanya Plibersek	68,770	66.69	−1.98
	Greens	Chetan Sahai	34,355	33.31	+33.31
	Labor hold		Swing	–1.98

References

1. "NSW Division - Sydney, NSW". Virtual Tally Room. Australian Electoral Commission. 4 October 2013. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 6 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, 2022 Tally Room, Australian Electoral Commission.

Other websites

• Division of Sydney - Australian Electoral Commission
• Tanya Plibersek's web site

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