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 in New South Wales, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created 1968
MP Tanya Plibersek
Party Labor
Namesake Sydney
Electors 110,322 (2016)
Area 44 km2 (17.0 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 Dalley, 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, Beaconsfield, Broadway, Chippendale, Darlington, Erskineville, Forest Lodge, Glebe, Haymarket, Millers Point, Pyrmont, Redfern, Rosebery, The Rocks, Ultimo, Waterloo, Zetland and parts of Annandale, Camperdown, Newtown, 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.[1]

The current Member for the Division of Sydney, since the 1998 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 2004, though by 2013 it had dropped to seventh-highest.

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

Members

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

Election results

Australian federal election, 2016: Sydney[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labor Tanya Plibersek 38,449 43.74 +0.13
Liberal Geoffrey Winters 25,622 29.15 −2.98
Greens Sylvie Ellsmore 16,537 18.81 +0.46
Animal Justice Mark Berriman 1,496 1.70 +1.70
Christian Democrats Ula Falanga 1,489 1.69 +0.83
Sex Party Rebecca Lanning 1,457 1.66 +1.66
Science Tom Geiser 1,361 1.55 +1.55
Sustainable Australia Kris Spike 605 0.69 +0.69
Socialist Alliance Peter Boyle 500 0.57 −0.06
Online Direct Democracy Tula Tzoras 384 0.44 +0.44
Total formal votes 87,900 94.01 +0.43
Informal votes 5,603 5.99 −0.43
Turnout 93,503 84.75 +0.03
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Tanya Plibersek 57,411 65.31 +2.44
Liberal Geoffrey Winters 30,489 34.69 −2.44
Labor hold Swing +2.44

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "Same-sex couples by Commonwealth Electoral Division". Australian Parliament House Library. Parliament of Australia. 15 June 2004. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Sydney, NSW, Virtual Tally Room 2016, Australian Electoral Commission.

External links

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

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