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# Balmain

In New South Wales.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kobi_Shetty_portrait.png?width=96)**Kobi Shetty** Greens, Balmain ](https://politics.computer/mp/kobi-shetty)

About

## About Balmain

Balmain is an electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in Sydney's Inner West, just west of the district of Sydney. The member for Balmain is Kobi Shetty of the Greens, who has held the seat since 2023\. Following the 2023 state election, Balmain is one of three seats held by the Greens.

Established

1880

Abolished

1991, replaced by Port Jackson

Recreated

2007 election

Member since

2023

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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