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Federal division, inner-metropolitan

# Sydney

In New South Wales.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tanya_Plibersek_2013_(cropped).jpg?width=96)**Tanya Plibersek** Labor, Sydney ](https://politics.computer/mp/tanya-plibersek)

About

## About Sydney

The Division of Sydney is an inner-metropolitan federal electoral division in New South Wales, centred on the Sydney CBD and including Lord Howe Island. It is held by Tanya Plibersek of the Australian Labor Party, the sitting member for the House of Representatives seat.

Created

Proclaimed at the 1968 redistribution, first contested at the 1969 election

Named after

The city of Sydney, the state capital

Held by the same party since

Australian Labor Party, since the 1998 federal election

Area

Includes Sydney CBD, inner suburbs and Lord Howe Island

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

## Other divisions in New South Wales

- [Banks](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/banks)
- [Barton](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/barton)
- [Bennelong](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/bennelong)
- [Berowra](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/berowra)
- [Blaxland](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/blaxland)
- [Bradfield](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/bradfield)
- [Calare](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/calare)
- [Chifley](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/chifley)
- [Cook](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/cook)
- [Cowper](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/cowper)
- [Cunningham](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/cunningham)
- [Dobell](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/dobell)
- [Eden-Monaro](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/eden-monaro)
- [Farrer](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/farrer)
- [Fowler](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/fowler)
- [Gilmore](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/gilmore)
- [Grayndler](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/grayndler)
- [Greenway](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/greenway)
- [Hughes](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/hughes)
- [Hume](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/hume)
- [Hunter](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/hunter)
- [Kingsford Smith](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/kingsford-smith)
- [Lindsay](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/lindsay)
- [Lyne](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/lyne)

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