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Federal division, inner-metropolitan

# Barton

In New South Wales.

## Sitting member

- [ **Ash Ambihaipahar** Labor, Barton ](https://politics.computer/mp/ash-ambihaipahar)

About

## About Barton

Barton is an inner-metropolitan federal electoral division in New South Wales, located in the inner south west of Sydney. It is represented in the House of Representatives by Ash Ambihaipahar of the Australian Labor Party. The seat was created in 1922 and is named after Sir Edmund Barton, Australia's first Prime Minister.

Created

1922

Named after

Sir Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia

Chamber

House of Representatives

Classification

Inner-metropolitan

Previous members

Linda Burney (Labor) held the seat until her retirement at the 2025 election

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%5Fof%5FBarton), plus our own records. Sources last checked 11 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Barton whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Barton yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Barton are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

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