Division of North Sydney

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North Sydney
Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of NORTH SYDNEY 2016.png
Division of North Sydney in New South Wales, as of the 2016 federal election
Created1901
Abolished2025
MP Kylea Tink
Party Independent
Namesake North Sydney
Electors 117,710 (2022)
Area53 km2 (20.5 sq mi)
DemographicInner metropolitan

The Division of North Sydney is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.

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On 12 September 2024 The Australian Electoral Commission announced that the seat would be abolished at the next federal election. [1]

History

The suburb of North Sydney, the division's namesake Lavender bay north sydney.jpg
The suburb of North Sydney, the division's namesake

The Division of North Sydney was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It originally stretched as far as the Northern Beaches, though much of that area became Warringah in 1922.

Second only to the nearby Division of Wentworth, the Division of North Sydney has the nation's second-highest proportion (56.4%) of high-income families. [2]

North Sydney and Wentworth are the only two federation divisions in New South Wales to have never been held by Labor. The Liberal hold on the seat was broken in 1990 by "father of the independents" Ted Mack, who had represented much of the area in state parliament from 1981 to 1988. He held the seat for two terms before retiring at the 1996 election, after two terms, for the same reason he previously chose to resign from state parliament after two terms − to avoid receiving a parliamentary pension. [3]

However, during Mack's tenure, North Sydney was always on the stronger side of fairly safe for the Liberals in "traditional" two-party-preferred match-ups with Labor, and it was a foregone conclusion that it would revert to the Liberals once Mack retired. Indeed, when Mack retired in 1996, Joe Hockey reclaimed the seat for the Liberals on a swing large enough to revert the seat to its traditional status as a comfortably safe Liberal seat. Hockey held it easily until 2015, serving as Treasurer from 2013 to 2015 in the Abbott government. After Abbott was ousted as Liberal leader and Prime Minister by Malcolm Turnbull in the September 2015 Liberal leadership spill Hockey moved to the backbench, but six days later he announced his intention to resign from parliament, taking effect from 23 October. The 2015 North Sydney by-election was held on 5 December to elect his replacement.

Trent Zimmerman, a former Hockey staffer, [4] retained the seat for the Liberal Party with 48.2 percent of the primary vote after a larger-than-predicted 12.8 percent swing against the Turnbull Coalition government. [5] That was only the second time in North Sydney since federation that the successful Liberal candidate had not obtained a majority of the primary vote and had to rely on preferences. Zimmerman faced a double-digit primary vote swing − more than triple that of the 2015 Canning by-election − even though Labor did not even contest the seat. [2]

The Liberal two-candidate-preferred vote of 60.2 percent against independent Stephen Ruff compares to the previous election vote of 65.9 percent against Labor. [2] The reduction of 5.7 percent could not be considered a "two-party/candidate preferred swing" − when a major party is absent, preference flows to both major parties does not take place, resulting in asymmetric preference flows. [6] [7]

Zimmerman became the first openly LGBTI member of the House of Representatives. [5] [8] He won the seat in his own right in 2016 and 2019. However, in 2022, he lost over 13 percent of his primary vote amid the Liberals' collapse in the North Shore and other "blue ribbon" areas of metropolitan Australia, and was defeated by teal independent Kylea Tink, the second non-Liberal ever to win it. The swing against the Liberals was large enough to make the seat marginal in a "traditional" two-party contest between the Liberals and Labor for the first time in 60 years; on paper, the Liberal margin over Labor was only 1.2 percent.

The most notable member for the seat was Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923, and later a minister in the Lyons, Page, Menzies and Fadden governments. Hughes is the longest-serving parliamentarian in Australian history. He transferred to Bradfield after it was carved out of North Sydney's northern portion in 1949, and died as that seat's member in 1952. Other notable members include Mack, Hockey, and Dugald Thomson, a minister in the Reid Government.

As part of its periodic review of electoral boundaries, the Australian Electoral Commission abolished the division from the next election, with its electors distributed across the divisions of Warringah, Bradfield and Bennelong. [9]

Boundaries

Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. [10]

Located along Sydney's Lower North Shore, the division is named after the suburb of North Sydney. It also includes the suburbs of Artarmon, Cammeray, Castlecrag, Crows Nest, Greenwich, Henley, Hunters Hill, Huntleys Cove, Huntleys Point, Kirribilli, Lane Cove, Lane Cove North, Lane Cove West, Lavender Bay, Linley Point, Longueville, McMahons Point, Middle Cove, Milsons Point, Naremburn, North Willoughby, Northbridge, Northwood, Riverview, St Leonards, Waverton, Willoughby, Willoughby East, Wollstonecraft, and Woolwich; as well as parts of Chatswood, Chatswood West, Cremorne, Gladesville, Gore Hill and Neutral Bay.

Members

ImageMemberPartyTermNotes
  Dugald Thomson 1903.jpg Dugald Thomson
(1849–1922)		 Free Trade 29 March 1901 –
1906		Previously held the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Warringah. Served as minister under Reid. Retired
  Anti-Socialist 1906 –
26 May 1909
  Liberal 26 May 1909 –
19 February 1910
  George Bertrand Edwards (cropped).jpg George Edwards
(1855–1911)		 13 April 1910 –
4 February 1911		Previously held the Division of South Sydney. Died in office
  Granville Ryrie - Falk.jpg (Sir) Granville Ryrie
(1865–1937)		 11 March 1911 –
17 February 1917		Previously held the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Queanbeyan. Transferred to the Division of Warringah
  Nationalist 17 February 1917 –
16 December 1922
  Billy Hughes 1939 (cropped).jpg Billy Hughes
(1862–1952)		 16 December 1922 –
September 1929		Previously held the Division of Bendigo. Served as Prime Minister from 1915 to 1923. Served as minister under Lyons, Page, Menzies and Fadden. Served as leader of the United Australia Party from 1941 to 1943. Transferred to the Division of Bradfield
  Independent Nationalist September 1929 –
2 December 1929
  Australian 2 December 1929 –
7 May 1931
  United Australia 7 May 1931 –
14 April 1944
  Independent 14 April 1944 –
13 September 1945
  Liberal 13 September 1945 –
10 December 1949
  William Jack.jpg William Jack
(1890–1982)		 10 December 1949 –
31 October 1966 		Retired
  Bill Graham 1974 (cropped).jpg Bill Graham
(1919–1995)		 26 November 1966 –
19 September 1980 		Previously held the Division of St George. Retired
  John Spender KC.jpg John Spender
(1935–2022)		 18 October 1980 –
24 March 1990 		Lost seat
  No image.svg Ted Mack
(1933–2018)		 Independent 24 March 1990 –
29 January 1996 		Previously held the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of North Shore. Retired
  Joe Hockey MP.jpg Joe Hockey
(1965–)		 Liberal 2 March 1996 –
23 October 2015		Served as minister under Howard and Abbott. Resigned to retire from politics
  Trent Zimmerman.jpg Trent Zimmerman
(1968–)		 5 December 2015 –
21 May 2022 		Lost seat. First openly LGBTI member of the House of Representatives
  No image.svg Kylea Tink
(1970–)		 Independent 21 May 2022 –
present		Incumbent

Election results

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2022 Australian federal election in New South Wales § North Sydney.[ edit ]
2022 Australian federal election: North Sydney [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Trent Zimmerman 36,95638.05−13.91
Independent Kylea Tink 24,47725.20+25.20
Labor Catherine Renshaw20,83521.45−3.63
Greens Heather Armstrong8,3088.55−5.07
United Australia Robert Nalbandian1,7301.78+0.49
Sustainable Australia William Bourke1,1631.20−0.69
One Nation Michael Walls1,1491.18+1.18
Liberal Democrats Dajen Tinkler1,1231.16+1.16
TNL Victor Kline8860.91+0.91
Informed Medical Options Lesley Kinney4910.51+0.51
Total formal votes97,11894.98−0.98
Informal votes5,1385.02+0.98
Turnout 102,25691.55−0.85
Notional two-party-preferred count
Liberal Trent Zimmerman 49,78151.26−8.01
Labor Catherine Renshaw47,33748.74+8.01
Two-candidate-preferred result
Independent Kylea Tink 51,39252.92+52.92
Liberal Trent Zimmerman 45,72647.08−12.19
Independent gain from Liberal  
Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of North Sydney in the 2022 federal election. Y indicates at what stage the winning candidate had over 50% of the votes and was declared the winner. 2022 Australian federal election North Sydney alluvial diagram.svg
Alluvial diagram for preference flows in the seat of North Sydney in the 2022 federal election. Light green check.svgY indicates at what stage the winning candidate had over 50% of the votes and was declared the winner.

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