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| West Sydney Australian House of Representatives Division | |
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| Created | 1901 |
| Abolished | 1969 |
| Namesake | West Sydney |
The Division of West Sydney was an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, and at various times included the suburbs of Pyrmont, Darling Harbour, Surry Hills, Balmain, Glebe, and from 1955 to 1969, Lord Howe Island.[1][2]
The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first federal election. It was abolished at the redistribution of 21 November 1968. It was held by the Australian Labor Party for all but seven months of its existence, and for most of that time was a comfortably safe Labor seat. It was the first of four seats to be held by Billy Hughes, the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia and the longest-serving member of the Australian Parliament. He was expelled from the ALP in November 1916; the time between then and the 1917 federal election was the only time the seat was out of Labor hands. It was also held by T. J. Ryan, a former Premier of Queensland.
- ^ "PROCLAMATION". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. 42. 1 September 1955. p. 2819. Retrieved 29 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "PROCLAMATION". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. 79. 12 October 1961. p. 3639. Retrieved 29 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.