Electoral district of Balmain explained

Balmain
State:nsw
Created:1885, 2007
Abolished:1894, 1991
Mp:Kobi Shetty
Namesake:Balmain, New South Wales
Electors:58785
Electors Year:2023
Area:16.14
Class:Inner metropolitan
Near-N:Lane Cove
Near-Ne:North Shore
Near-E:Sydney
Near-Se:Newtown
Near-S:Newtown
Near-Sw:Summer Hill
Near-W:Drummoyne
Summer Hill
Near-Nw:Drummoyne

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 Kobi Shetty of the Greens.

Geography

On its current boundaries, 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 —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 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]

Following the 2023 New South Wales state election, the seat became a marginal Greens seat following the retirement of Jamie Parker.

Members for Balmain

First incarnation (1880–1894)
1880–1882, 1 member
Member Party Term
 Jacob Garrard[5] None1880–1882
1882–1885, 2 members
Member Party Term Member Party Term
 Jacob GarrardNone1882–1885 William Hutchinson[6] None1882–1885
1885–1889, 3 members
Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term
 Jacob GarrardNone1885–1887 Solomon Hyam[7] None1885–1887 John Hawthorne[8] None1885–1887
 1887–1889 Frank Smith[9] 1887–1889 1887–1889
1889–1894, 4 members
Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term
 Jacob Garrard1889–1891 Frank Smith1889–1891 John Hawthorne1889–1891 George Clubb[10] 1889–1891
 George Clark[11] 1891–1891 Edward Darnley[12] 1891–1894 James Johnston[13] 1891–1894 William Murphy[14] 1891–1894
 1891–1894
 
Second incarnation (1904–1991)
1904–1920, 1 member
Member Party Term
 Walter Anderson[15] 1904–1907
 John Storey[16] 1907–1920
1920–1927, 5 members
Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term Member Party Term
 John Storey1920–1921 John Doyle[17] 1920–1922 Robert Stuart-Robertson[18] 1920–1927 John Quirk[19] 1920–1927 Albert Smith[20] 1920–1922
 Tom Keegan[21] 1921–1927
 Robert Stopford[22] 1922–1925 Albert Lane[23] 1922–1927
 H. V. Evatt[24] 1925–1927
1927–1991, 1 member
Member Party Term
 H. V. Evatt1927–1930
 John Quirk1930–1938
 Mary Quirk[25] 1939–1940
 1940–1941
 1941–1950
 1950–1950
 John McMahon[26] 1950–1968
 Roger Degen[27] 1968–1984
 Peter Crawford[28] 1984–1988
 Dawn Fraser[29] 1988–1991
 
Third incarnation (2007–present, 1 member)
Member Party Term
 Verity Firth[30] 2007–2011
 Jamie Parker[31] 2011–2023
 Kobi Shetty2023–present

Election results

See also: Electoral results for the district of Balmain.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Balmain . . 23 November 2019.
  2. Elections for the District of Balmain . DistrictIndexes . Balmain . 2020-11-16.
  3. Web site: Balmain – NSW Electorate, Candidates, Results . NSW Votes 2019 . . en-AU. 2020-11-16.
  4. Web site: Former Members . Members of Parliament . . 2020-11-16.
  5. Mr Jacob Garrard (1846–1931) . 870 . Yes . 5 May 2019.
  6. Mr William Alston Hutchinson (1839–1897) . 747 . Yes . 5 May 2019.
  7. Mr Solomon Herbert Hyam (1837–1901) . 717 . Yes . 5 May 2019.
  8. 903 . Mr John Stuart Hawthorne (1848–1942) . Yes . 10 June 2019.
  9. Mr Frank James Smith (1852–1910) . 950 . Yes . 22 May 2019 .
  10. Mr George Clubb (1844–1924) . 825 . Yes . 5 May 2019.
  11. 908 . Mr George Daniel Clark (1848–1933) . Yes . 8 May 2019.
  12. Mr Edward Darnley (1859–1927) . 1051 . Yes . 21 May 2019.
  13. Mr James Johnston (1854–1930) . 971 . Yes . 8 June 2019.
  14. Mr William Alfred Murphy (1858—1929) . 1040 . Yes . 7 May 2019.
  15. Mr Walter Anderson (1865–1939) . 1153 . Yes . 27 April 2019.
  16. Mr John Storey (1869–1921) . 1208 . Yes . 23 September 2019.
  17. Mr John William Doyle (1875–1951) . 1276 . Yes . 10 June 2019.
  18. Mr Robert Stuart-Robertson (1874–1933) . 1266 . Yes . 10 May 2019.
  19. Mr John Quirk (1870–1938) . 1217 . Yes . 7 May 2019.
  20. Mr Albert Frank Smith (1885–1975) . 1424 . Yes . 13 May 2019.
  21. Mr Thomas Michael Keegan (1878–1937) . 1321 . Yes . 30 April 2019.
  22. Mr Robert Stopford (1862–1926) . 1099 . Yes . 16 June 2019.
  23. Mr Albert Lane (1873–1950) . 1254 . Yes . 23 September 2019.
  24. Mr Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965) . 1554 . Yes . 23 September 2019.
  25. Mrs Mary Lily May Quirk (1880–1952) . 1345 . Yes . 8 May 2019.
  26. The Hon John Michael Alfred McMahon (1914–1975) . 1738 . Yes . 5 May 2019.
  27. Mr Roger Charles Degen (1939–) . 1958 . Yes . 11 May 2019.
  28. Mr Peter Thomson Crawford (1949–) . 2057 . Yes . 13 May 2019.
  29. Ms Dawn Fraser (1937–) . 1947 . Yes . 13 May 2019.
  30. The Hon. Verity Helen Firth (1973–) . 2194 . Yes . 23 September 2019.
  31. Mr Jamie Thomas Jamie Parker MP . 82 . 4 April 2019.

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