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 km2 (35.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

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]

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.