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Electoral district of Balmain

January 07, 2023

Balmain is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's Inner West. It is currently represented by Jamie Parker of the Greens New South Wales.

Balmain
New South Wales—Legislative Assembly
Location within Sydney
StateNew South Wales
Created1885, 2007
Abolished1894, 1991
MPJamie Parker
PartyGreens
NamesakeBalmain, New South Wales
Electors57,741 (2019)
Area16.15 km2 (6.2 sq mi)
DemographicInner metropolitan

Balmain includes the suburbs and localities of Annandale, Balmain, Balmain East, Birchgrove, Forest Lodge, Glebe, Glebe Island, Leichhardt, Lilyfield, Rozelle, White Bay and parts of Camperdown and Ultimo.[1]

History

Balmain was established in 1880 and from 1882, it elected two members, from 1885 it elected three members and from 1889 until 1894 it elected four members simultaneously. Voters cast a vote for each vacancy and the leading candidates were elected. In 1894 it was split into Balmain North, Balmain South, Annandale and Leichhardt, each electing one member. In 1904 with the downsizing of the Assembly after Federation, Balmain North and part of Balmain South were combined into a single electorate, electing one member. In 1920, parts of the electoral districts of Balmain, Annandale, Camperdown, Darling Harbour, Glebe and Rozelle were combined to create a new incarnation of Balmain, which elected five members by proportional representation. This was replaced by single member electorates of Balmain, Annandale, Glebe and Rozelle for the 1927 election. Balmain was abolished in 1991, being replaced by Port Jackson. It was recreated for the 2007 election, taking in large parts of the abolished district of Port Jackson (the Sydney CBD and Pyrmont, which were previously in Port Jackson, became part of the new Electoral district of Sydney).

Historically, Balmain has been a working-class seat and very safe for Labor—at the 1978 election, Labor won an 84.2 percent two-party vote. However, as with several inner-city seats, demographic change and the rise of the Greens has seen a strong Green vote in Balmain since the party first contested the seat from the seat's recreation at the 2007 election. Following the 2019 election, it is considered a safe Greens seat.[2][3][4][5]

 
Matthews' ALP supporters. Photograph by Sam Hood taken about 1934

Members for Balmain

First incarnation (1880–1894)
1880–1882, 1 member
Member Party Term
  Jacob Garrard [6] None 1880–1882
1882–1885, 2 members
Member Party Term Member Party Term
  Jacob Garrard [6] None 1882–1885   William Hutchinson [7] None 1882–1885
1885–1889, 3 members
Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term
  Jacob Garrard [6] None 1885–1887   Solomon Hyam [8] None 1885–1887   John Hawthorne [9] None 1885–1887
  Free Trade 1887–1889   Frank Smith [10] Free Trade 1887–1889   Free Trade 1887–1889
1889–1894, 4 members
Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term
  Jacob Garrard [6] Free Trade 1889–1891   Frank Smith [10] Free Trade 1889–1891   John Hawthorne [9] Free Trade 1889–1891   George Clubb [11] Free Trade 1889–1891
  George Clark [12] Labour 1891–1891   Edward Darnley [13] Labour 1891–1894   James Johnston [14] Labour 1891–1894   William Murphy [15] Labour 1891–1894
  Free Trade 1891–1894
 
Second incarnation (1904–1991)
1904–1920, 1 member
Member Party Term
  Walter Anderson [16] Liberal Reform 1904–1907
  John Storey [17] Labour 1907–1920
1920–1927, 5 members
Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term
  John Storey [17] Labor 1920–1921   John Doyle [18] Labor 1920–1922   Robert Stuart-Robertson [19] Labor 1920–1927   John Quirk [20] Labor 1920–1927   Albert Smith [21] Nationalist 1920–1922
  Tom Keegan [22] Labor 1921 [a]–1927
  Robert Stopford [25] Nationalist 1922–1925   Albert Lane [26] Nationalist 1922–1927
  H. V. Evatt [27] Labor 1925–1927
1927–1991, 1 member
Member Party Term
  H. V. Evatt [27] Independent Labor 1927–1930
  John Quirk [20] Labor 1930–1938
  Mary Quirk [28] Labor 1939–1940
  Labor (N-C) 1940–1941
  Labor 1941–1950
  Independent Labor 1950–1950
  John McMahon [29] Labor 1950–1968
  Roger Degen [30] Labor 1968–1984
  Peter Crawford [31] Labor 1984–1988
  Dawn Fraser [32] Independent 1988–1991
 
Third incarnation (2007–present, 1 member)
Member Party Term
  Verity Firth [33] Labor 2007–2011
  Jamie Parker [34] Greens 2011–present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the district of Balmain
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2019 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) § Balmain.[edit]
2019 New South Wales state election: Balmain [35][36]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Greens Jamie Parker 21,065 42.73 +5.34
Labor Elly Howse 14,227 28.86 −2.94
Liberal Wenjie (Ben) Zhang 9,875 20.03 −4.85
Keep Sydney Open Emilia Leonetti 2,268 4.60 +4.60
Animal Justice Anita Finlayson 1,103 2.24 +0.29
Sustainable Australia Angela Dunnett 761 1.54 +1.54
Total formal votes 49,299 98.44 +0.52
Informal votes 781 1.56 −0.52
Turnout 50,080 86.73 −1.60
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Elly Howse 28,127 70.45 +4.70
Liberal Wenjie (Ben) Zhang 11,795 29.55 −4.70
Two-candidate-preferred result
Greens Jamie Parker 24,074 60.02 +5.29
Labor Elly Howse 16,037 39.98 −5.29
Greens hold Swing +5.29

Notes

  1. ^ John Storey died and Tom Keegan was appointed to replace him in accordance with the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act.[23][24]

References

  1. ^ "Balmain". New South Wales Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  2. ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Balmain". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Balmain- NSW Electorate, Candidates, Results". NSW Votes 2019. ABC News. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. ^ Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856 (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Former Members". Members of Parliament. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d "Mr Jacob Garrard (1846-1931)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Mr William Alston Hutchinson (1839-1897)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Mr Solomon Herbert Hyam (1837-1901)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  9. ^ a b "Mr John Stuart Hawthorne (1848-1942)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  10. ^ a b "Mr Frank James Smith (1852-1910)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  11. ^ "Mr George Clubb (1844-1924)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  12. ^ "Mr George Daniel Clark (1848-1933)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  13. ^ "Mr Edward Darnley (1859-1927)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  14. ^ "Mr James Johnston (1854-1930)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  15. ^ "Mr William Alfred Murphy (1858- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  16. ^ "Mr Walter Anderson (1865–1939)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  17. ^ a b "Mr John Storey (1869-1921)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  18. ^ "Mr John William Doyle (1875–1951)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  19. ^ "Mr Robert Stuart-Robertson (1874-1933)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  20. ^ a b "Mr John Quirk (1870-1938)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  21. ^ "Mr Albert Frank Smith (1885–1975)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  22. ^ "Mr Thomas Michael Keegan (1878-1937)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  23. ^ Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act 1920 (NSW).
  24. ^ Green, Antony. "1921 Balmain by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  25. ^ "Mr Robert Stopford (1862–1926)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  26. ^ "Mr Albert Lane (1873-1950)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  27. ^ a b "Mr Herbert Vere Evatt (1894-1965)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  28. ^ "Mrs Mary Lily May Quirk (1880-1952)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  29. ^ "The Hon John Michael Alfred McMahon (1914-1975)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  30. ^ "Mr Roger Charles Degen (1939- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  31. ^ "Mr Peter Thomson Crawford (1949- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  32. ^ "Ms Dawn Fraser (1937– )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  33. ^ "The Hon. Verity Helen Firth (1973- )". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  34. ^ "Mr Jamie Thomas Jamie Parker MP". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  35. ^ "Balmain: First Preference Votes". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  36. ^ "Balmain: Distribution of Preferences". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 January 2022.

January 07, 2023
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Balmain is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney s Inner West It is currently represented by Jamie Parker of the Greens New South Wales BalmainNew South Wales Legislative AssemblyLocation within SydneyStateNew South WalesCreated1885 2007Abolished1894 1991MPJamie ParkerPartyGreensNamesakeBalmain New South WalesElectors57 741 2019 Area16 15 km2 6 2 sq mi DemographicInner metropolitanElectorates around Balmain Drummoyne Lane Cove North ShoreDrummoyneSummer Hill Balmain SydneySummer Hill Newtown NewtownBalmain includes the suburbs and localities of Annandale Balmain Balmain East Birchgrove Forest Lodge Glebe Glebe Island Leichhardt Lilyfield Rozelle White Bay and parts of Camperdown and Ultimo 1 Contents 1 History 2 Members for Balmain 3 Election results 4 Notes 5 ReferencesHistory EditBalmain was established in 1880 and from 1882 it elected two members from 1885 it elected three members and from 1889 until 1894 it elected four members simultaneously Voters cast a vote for each vacancy and the leading candidates were elected In 1894 it was split into Balmain North Balmain South Annandale and Leichhardt each electing one member In 1904 with the downsizing of the Assembly after Federation Balmain North and part of Balmain South were combined into a single electorate electing one member In 1920 parts of the electoral districts of Balmain Annandale Camperdown Darling Harbour Glebe and Rozelle were combined to create a new incarnation of Balmain which elected five members by proportional representation This was replaced by single member electorates of Balmain Annandale Glebe and Rozelle for the 1927 election Balmain was abolished in 1991 being replaced by Port Jackson It was recreated for the 2007 election taking in large parts of the abolished district of Port Jackson the Sydney CBD and Pyrmont which were previously in Port Jackson became part of the new Electoral district of Sydney Historically Balmain has been a working class seat and very safe for Labor at the 1978 election Labor won an 84 2 percent two party vote However as with several inner city seats demographic change and the rise of the Greens has seen a strong Green vote in Balmain since the party first contested the seat from the seat s recreation at the 2007 election Following the 2019 election it is considered a safe Greens seat 2 3 4 5 Matthews ALP supporters Photograph by Sam Hood taken about 1934Members for Balmain EditFirst incarnation 1880 1894 1880 1882 1 memberMember Party Term Jacob Garrard 6 None 1880 18821882 1885 2 membersMember Party Term Member Party Term Jacob Garrard 6 None 1882 1885 William Hutchinson 7 None 1882 18851885 1889 3 membersMember Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Jacob Garrard 6 None 1885 1887 Solomon Hyam 8 None 1885 1887 John Hawthorne 9 None 1885 1887 Free Trade 1887 1889 Frank Smith 10 Free Trade 1887 1889 Free Trade 1887 18891889 1894 4 membersMember Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Jacob Garrard 6 Free Trade 1889 1891 Frank Smith 10 Free Trade 1889 1891 John Hawthorne 9 Free Trade 1889 1891 George Clubb 11 Free Trade 1889 1891 George Clark 12 Labour 1891 1891 Edward Darnley 13 Labour 1891 1894 James Johnston 14 Labour 1891 1894 William Murphy 15 Labour 1891 1894 Free Trade 1891 1894 Second incarnation 1904 1991 1904 1920 1 memberMember Party Term Walter Anderson 16 Liberal Reform 1904 1907 John Storey 17 Labour 1907 19201920 1927 5 membersMember Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term John Storey 17 Labor 1920 1921 John Doyle 18 Labor 1920 1922 Robert Stuart Robertson 19 Labor 1920 1927 John Quirk 20 Labor 1920 1927 Albert Smith 21 Nationalist 1920 1922 Tom Keegan 22 Labor 1921 a 1927 Robert Stopford 25 Nationalist 1922 1925 Albert Lane 26 Nationalist 1922 1927 H V Evatt 27 Labor 1925 19271927 1991 1 memberMember Party Term H V Evatt 27 Independent Labor 1927 1930 John Quirk 20 Labor 1930 1938 Mary Quirk 28 Labor 1939 1940 Labor N C 1940 1941 Labor 1941 1950 Independent Labor 1950 1950 John McMahon 29 Labor 1950 1968 Roger Degen 30 Labor 1968 1984 Peter Crawford 31 Labor 1984 1988 Dawn Fraser 32 Independent 1988 1991 Third incarnation 2007 present 1 member Member Party Term Verity Firth 33 Labor 2007 2011 Jamie Parker 34 Greens 2011 presentElection results EditSee also Electoral results for the district of Balmain This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2019 New South Wales state election Legislative Assembly Balmain edit 2019 New South Wales state election Balmain 35 36 Party Candidate Votes Greens Jamie Parker 21 065 42 73 5 34Labor Elly Howse 14 227 28 86 2 94Liberal Wenjie Ben Zhang 9 875 20 03 4 85Keep Sydney Open Emilia Leonetti 2 268 4 60 4 60Animal Justice Anita Finlayson 1 103 2 24 0 29Sustainable Australia Angela Dunnett 761 1 54 1 54Total formal votes 49 299 98 44 0 52Informal votes 781 1 56 0 52Turnout 50 080 86 73 1 60Two party preferred resultLabor Elly Howse 28 127 70 45 4 70Liberal Wenjie Ben Zhang 11 795 29 55 4 70Two candidate preferred resultGreens Jamie Parker 24 074 60 02 5 29Labor Elly Howse 16 037 39 98 5 29Greens hold Swing 5 29Notes Edit John Storey died and Tom Keegan was appointed to replace him in accordance with the Parliamentary Elections Casual Vacancies Act 23 24 References Edit Balmain New South Wales Electoral Commission Retrieved 23 November 2019 Green Antony Elections for the District of Balmain New South Wales Election Results 1856 2007 Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 16 November 2020 Balmain NSW Electorate Candidates Results NSW Votes 2019 ABC News Retrieved 16 November 2020 Part 5B alphabetical list of all electorates and Members since 1856 PDF NSW Parliamentary Record Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 16 November 2020 Former Members Members of Parliament Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 16 November 2020 a b c d Mr Jacob Garrard 1846 1931 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 5 May 2019 Mr William Alston Hutchinson 1839 1897 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 5 May 2019 Mr Solomon Herbert Hyam 1837 1901 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 5 May 2019 a b Mr John Stuart Hawthorne 1848 1942 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 10 June 2019 a b Mr Frank James Smith 1852 1910 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 22 May 2019 Mr George Clubb 1844 1924 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 5 May 2019 Mr George Daniel Clark 1848 1933 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 8 May 2019 Mr Edward Darnley 1859 1927 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 21 May 2019 Mr James Johnston 1854 1930 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 8 June 2019 Mr William Alfred Murphy 1858 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 7 May 2019 Mr Walter Anderson 1865 1939 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 27 April 2019 a b Mr John Storey 1869 1921 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 23 September 2019 Mr John William Doyle 1875 1951 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 10 June 2019 Mr Robert Stuart Robertson 1874 1933 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 10 May 2019 a b Mr John Quirk 1870 1938 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 7 May 2019 Mr Albert Frank Smith 1885 1975 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 13 May 2019 Mr Thomas Michael Keegan 1878 1937 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 30 April 2019 Parliamentary Elections Casual Vacancies Act 1920 NSW Green Antony 1921 Balmain by election New South Wales Election Results 1856 2007 Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 23 September 2019 Mr Robert Stopford 1862 1926 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 16 June 2019 Mr Albert Lane 1873 1950 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 23 September 2019 a b Mr Herbert Vere Evatt 1894 1965 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 23 September 2019 Mrs Mary Lily May Quirk 1880 1952 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 8 May 2019 The Hon John Michael Alfred McMahon 1914 1975 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 5 May 2019 Mr Roger Charles Degen 1939 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 11 May 2019 Mr Peter Thomson Crawford 1949 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 13 May 2019 Ms Dawn Fraser 1937 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 13 May 2019 The Hon Verity Helen Firth 1973 Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 23 September 2019 Mr Jamie Thomas Jamie Parker MP Members of the Parliament of New South Wales Retrieved 4 April 2019 Balmain First Preference Votes 2019 NSW election results NSW Electoral Commission Retrieved 24 January 2022 Balmain Distribution of Preferences 2019 NSW election results NSW Electoral Commission Retrieved 24 January 2022 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Electoral district of Balmain amp oldid 1065910118, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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