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Electoral district of Balmain

State electoral district of New South Wales, Australia

Field	Value
name	Balmain
state	nsw
image
caption	Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
created	1885, 2007
abolished	1894, 1991
mp	Kobi Shetty
mp-party
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

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.

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.

Photograph by Sam Hood taken about 1934 ]] 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)	Member	Party	Term	1882–1885, 2 members	Member	Party	Term	Member	Party	Term	1885–1889, 3 members	Party	Term	Member	Party	Term	Member	Party	1889–1894, 4 members	Party
	title=Mr Jacob Garrard (1846–1931)	id=870	former=Yes	access-date=5 May 2019}}	None	1880–1882
	Jacob Garrard	None	1882–1885			William Hutchinson	None	1882–1885
	Jacob Garrard	None	1885–1887			name=Mr Solomon Herbert Hyam (1837–1901)	id=717	former=Yes	access-date=5 May 2019}}	None	1885–1887		John Hawthorne	None	1885–1887
		1887–1889			Frank Smith		1887–1889				1887–1889
	Jacob Garrard		1889–1891			Frank Smith		1889–1891			John Hawthorne	1889–1891			name=Mr George Clubb (1844–1924)	id=825	former=Yes	access-date=5 May 2019}}	1889–1891
	George Clark		1891–1891	Labor NSW}}		Edward Darnley		1891–1894	Labour NSW}}		James Johnston	1891–1894	Labour NSW}}		William Murphy		1891–1894
		1891–1894
	Walter Anderson		1904–1907
	John Storey		1907–1920
	John Storey		1920–1921	Labor NSW}}		John Doyle		1920–1922	Labor NSW}}		Robert Stuart-Robertson	1920–1927	Labor NSW}}		John Quirk		1920–1927	Nationalist}}	Albert Smith	1920–1922
Labor NSW}}	Tom Keegan		1921–1927
	Robert Stopford		1922–1925	Nationalist}}		Albert Lane		1922–1927
	name=Mr Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965)	id=1554	former=Yes	access-date=23 September 2019}}		1925–1927
	H. V. Evatt		1927–1930
	John Quirk		1930–1938
	Mary Quirk		1939–1940
		1940–1941
		1941–1950
		1950–1950
	John McMahon		1950–1968
	title=Mr Roger Charles Degen (1939– )	id=1958	former=Yes	access-date=11 May 2019}}		1968–1984
	Peter Crawford		1984–1988
	title=Ms Dawn Fraser (1937– )	id=1947	former=Yes	access-date=13 May 2019}}		1988–1991
	title=The Hon. Verity Helen Firth (1973– )	id=2194	former=Yes	access-date=23 September 2019}}		2007–2011
	Jamie Parker		2011–2023
	Kobi Shetty		2023–present

Election results

Notes

References

"Balmain". [[New South Wales Electoral Commission]].
(DistrictIndexes). "Elections for the District of Balmain".
"Balmain – NSW Electorate, Candidates, Results". [[ABC News (Australia).
{{NSW Parliamentary Record
"Former Members". [[Parliament of New South Wales]].
"Mr Jacob Garrard (1846–1931)".
{{Cite NSW Parliament
{{Cite NSW Parliament
{{Cite NSW Parliament
"Mr Frank James Smith (1852–1910)".
{{Cite NSW Parliament
{{Cite NSW Parliament
"Mr Edward Darnley (1859–1927)".
"Mr James Johnston (1854–1930)".
"Mr William Alfred Murphy (1858—1929)".
{{Cite NSW Parliament
{{Cite NSW Parliament
"Mr John William Doyle (1875–1951)".
"Mr Robert Stuart-Robertson (1874–1933)".
"Mr John Quirk (1870–1938)".
"Mr Albert Frank Smith (1885–1975)".
{{Cite NSW Parliament
{{cite Legislation AU. NSW. num_act. peva1920n18400.pdf. Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act 1920.
(1920). "1921 Balmain by-election".
"Mr Robert Stopford (1862–1926)".
{{Cite NSW Parliament
{{Cite NSW Parliament
"Mrs Mary Lily May Quirk (1880–1952)".
"The Hon John Michael Alfred McMahon (1914–1975)".
"Mr Roger Charles Degen (1939– )".
"Mr Peter Thomson Crawford (1949–)".
"Ms Dawn Fraser (1937– )".
"The Hon. Verity Helen Firth (1973– )".
"Mr Jamie Thomas Jamie Parker MP".

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