Division of Sydney
| Sydney Australian House of Representatives Division |
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 Division of Sydney (green) in New South Wales (Lord Howe Island not illustrated) |
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| Created: | 1969 |
| MP: | Tanya Plibersek |
| Party: | Labor |
| Namesake: | Sydney |
| Area: | 91 km² (35 sq mi) |
| Demographic: | Inner Metropolitan |
The Division of Sydney is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It is located around the central city area of Sydney, and includes many inner suburbs such as Darlinghurst, Surry Hills, Ultimo, Redfern, Camperdown, Glebe, Annandale, Balmain, Potts Point and the Sydney central business district itself. The Division also incorporates all the waters of Port Jackson, except for Middle Harbour and North Harbour. It also covers Lord Howe Island.
The Division was named for the city of Sydney, 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 seat is a very safe Labor seat, although the seat had the highest amount of Green votes in any federal electorate in the 2004 election. The seat of Melbourne topped Sydney for the highest Green vote at the 2007 election.
According to the 2001 census, the electorate has by far the highest number of same-sex couples in Australia (2265).[1]
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[edit] Members
| Member | Party | Term | |
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| Jim Cope | Labor | 1969–1975 | |
| Leslie McMahon | Labor | 1975–1983 | |
| Peter Baldwin | Labor | 1983–1998 | |
| Tanya Plibersek | Labor | 1998–present | |
[edit] Election results
| Australian federal election, 2010: Sydney | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labor | Tanya Plibersek | 34,362 | 43.29 | -5.92 | |
| Liberal | Gordon Weiss | 22,307 | 28.10 | +1.20 | |
| Greens | Tony Hickey | 18,852 | 23.75 | +3.44 | |
| Democrats | Brett Paterson | 1,256 | 1.58 | +0.48 | |
| Independent | Jane Ward | 1,226 | 1.54 | +0.30 | |
| Secular | Christopher Owen | 718 | 0.90 | +0.90 | |
| Communist | Denis Doherty | 656 | 0.83 | +0.83 | |
| Total formal votes | 79,377 | 94.50 | -1.32 | ||
| Informal votes | 4,620 | 5.50 | +1.32 | ||
| Turnout | 83,997 | 88.16 | -3.65 | ||
| Two-candidate preferred result | |||||
| Labor | Tanya Plibersek | 53,235 | 67.07 | -2.25 | |
| Liberal | Gordon Weiss | 26,142 | 32.93 | +2.25 | |
| Labor hold | Swing | -2.25 | |||
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Same-sex couples by Commonwealth Electoral Division" (PDF). Australian Parliament House Library. http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2003-04/04rn61.pdf. Retrieved 24 October 2006. (PDF)
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