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Electoral district of Balmain

{{Short description|State electoral district of New South Wales, Australia}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}

{{Use Australian English|date=January 2015}}

{{Infobox Australian Electorate |

|name = Balmain

|state = nsw

|image = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|from=NSW Electoral District 2023 - Balmain.map|frame-height=300|frame-width=400|frame-latitude=-33.87|frame-longitude=151.173|zoom=12|overlay-horizontal-alignment=right|overlay-vertical-alignment=bottom|overlay=120px}}

|caption = Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election

|created = 1885, 2007

|abolished= 1894, 1991

|mp = Kobi Shetty

|mp-party = {{Australian politics/name|Greens NSW}}

|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.{{cite web | title = Balmain | publisher = New South Wales Electoral Commission | url = https://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/District-profiles/Balmain | access-date = 23 November 2019}}

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 {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}—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 {{Australian politics/name|Greens NSW}} 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.{{Cite NSW election |title=Elections for the District of Balmain |year=DistrictIndexes |district=Balmain |access-date=2020-11-16}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/nsw/2019/guide/balm |title=Balmain – NSW Electorate, Candidates, Results |work=NSW Votes 2019 |publisher=ABC News |language=en-AU|access-date=2020-11-16}}{{NSW Parliamentary Record |part=5B |access-date=2020-11-16}}{{cite web |title=Former Members |work=Members of Parliament |publisher=Parliament of New South Wales |url=https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/formermembers/pages/former-members-index.aspx |access-date=2020-11-16}}

[[File:Matthews ALP supporters.jpg|thumb|left|Matthews' ALP supporters.

Photograph by Sam Hood taken about 1934 ]]{{clear}} Following the 2023 New South Wales state election, the seat became a marginal Greens seat following the retirement of Jamie Parker.

Members for Balmain

class="wikitable" style='border-style: none none none none;'

! colspan="4" | First incarnation (1880–1894)

colspan=4 style="border-right:0px;" | 1880–1882, 1 member
colspan="2" | MemberPartyTerm
style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Other}}| 

| Jacob Garrard{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Jacob Garrard (1846–1931) |id=870 |former=Yes |access-date=5 May 2019}}

| None

| 1880–1882

colspan=8 style="border-right:0px;" | 1882–1885, 2 members
colspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTerm
style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Other}}| 

| Jacob Garrard{{hsp}}

| None

| 1882–1885

| {{Australian party style|Other}}| 

| William Hutchinson{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr William Alston Hutchinson (1839–1897) |id=747 |former=Yes |access-date=5 May 2019}}

| None

| 1882–1885

colspan=12 style="border-right:0px;"; | 1885–1889, 3 members
colspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTerm
style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Other}}| 

| rowspan=2|Jacob Garrard{{hsp}}

| None

| 1885–1887

| {{Australian party style|Other}}| 

| Solomon Hyam{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr Solomon Herbert Hyam (1837–1901) |id=717 |former=Yes |access-date=5 May 2019}}

| None

| 1885–1887

| {{Australian party style|Other}}| 

| rowspan=2|John Hawthorne{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |id=903 |name=Mr John Stuart Hawthorne (1848–1942) |former=Yes |access-date=10 June 2019}}

| None

| 1885–1887

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Free Trade}}| 

| {{Australian politics/name|Free Trade}}

| 1887–1889

| {{Australian party style|Free Trade}}| 

| Frank Smith{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title = Mr Frank James Smith (1852–1910) |id=950 |former=Yes |access-date=22 May 2019 }}

| {{Australian politics/name|Free Trade}}

| 1887–1889

| {{Australian party style|Free Trade}}| 

| {{Australian politics/name|Free Trade}}

| 1887–1889

colspan=16 style="border-right:0px;"; | 1889–1894, 4 members
colspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTerm
style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Free Trade}}| 

| Jacob Garrard{{hsp}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Free Trade}}

| 1889–1891

| {{Australian party style|Free Trade}}| 

| Frank Smith{{hsp}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Free Trade}}

| 1889–1891

| {{Australian party style|Free Trade}}| 

| John Hawthorne{{hsp}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Free Trade}}

| 1889–1891

| {{Australian party style|Free Trade}}| 

| George Clubb{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr George Clubb (1844–1924) |id=825 |former=Yes |access-date=5 May 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Free Trade}}

| 1889–1891

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labour NSW}}| 

| rowspan=2|George Clark{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |id=908 |name=Mr George Daniel Clark (1848–1933) |former=Yes |access-date=8 May 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labour NSW}}

| 1891–1891

| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| rowspan=2|Edward Darnley{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Edward Darnley (1859–1927) |id=1051 |former=Yes |access-date=21 May 2019}}

| rowspan=2|{{Australian politics/name|Labour NSW}}

| rowspan=2|1891–1894

| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Labour NSW}}| 

| rowspan=2|James Johnston{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr James Johnston (1854–1930) |id=971 |former=Yes |access-date=8 June 2019}}

| rowspan=2|{{Australian politics/name|Labour NSW}}

| rowspan=2|1891–1894

| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Labour NSW}}| 

| rowspan=2|William Murphy{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament | title=Mr William Alfred Murphy (1858—1929) |id=1040 |former=Yes |access-date=7 May 2019}}

| rowspan=2|{{Australian politics/name|Labour NSW}}

| rowspan=2|1891–1894

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Free Trade}}| 

| {{Australian politics/name|Free Trade}}

| 1891–1894

colspan="4" style='border-style: none none none none;' | 
colspan="4" | Second incarnation (1904–1991)
colspan=4 | 1904–1920, 1 member
colspan="2" | MemberPartyTerm
style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Liberal Reform}}| 

| Walter Anderson{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr Walter Anderson (1865–1939) |id=1153 |former=Yes |access-date=27 April 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Liberal Reform}}

| 1904–1907

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labour NSW}}| 

| John Storey{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr John Storey (1869–1921) |id=1208 |former=Yes |access-date=23 September 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labour NSW}}

| 1907–1920

colspan=20 style="border-right:0px;"; | 1920–1927, 5 members
colspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTermcolspan="2" | MemberPartyTerm
style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| John Storey{{hsp}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| 1920–1921

| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| rowspan=2|John Doyle{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr John William Doyle (1875–1951) |id=1276 |former=Yes |access-date=10 June 2019}}

| rowspan=2|{{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| rowspan=2|1920–1922

| rowspan=4 {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| rowspan=4|Robert Stuart-Robertson{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title= Mr Robert Stuart-Robertson (1874–1933) |id=1266 |former=Yes |access-date=10 May 2019}}

| rowspan=4|{{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| rowspan=4|1920–1927

| rowspan=4 {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| rowspan=4|John Quirk{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr John Quirk (1870–1938) |id=1217 |former=Yes |access-date=7 May 2019}}

| rowspan=4|{{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| rowspan=4|1920–1927

| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Nationalist}}| 

| rowspan=2|Albert Smith{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Albert Frank Smith (1885–1975) |id=1424 |former=Yes |access-date=13 May 2019}}

| rowspan=2|{{Australian politics/name|Nationalist}}

| rowspan=2|1920–1922

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| rowspan=3 {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| rowspan=3|Tom Keegan{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr Thomas Michael Keegan (1878–1937) |id=1321 |former=Yes |access-date=30 April 2019}}

| rowspan=3|{{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| rowspan=3|1921{{hsp}}{{efn|John Storey died and Tom Keegan was appointed to replace him in accordance with the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act.{{cite Legislation AU|NSW|num_act|peva1920n18400.pdf|Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act 1920}}.{{cite NSW election |title=1921 Balmain by-election |year=1920 |district=Balmain_1 |access-date=23 September 2019}}}}–1927

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Nationalist}}| 

| Robert Stopford{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title = Mr Robert Stopford (1862–1926) |id=1099 |former=Yes |access-date=16 June 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Nationalist}}

| 1922–1925

| rowspan=2 {{Australian party style|Nationalist}}| 

| rowspan=2|Albert Lane{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr Albert Lane (1873–1950) |id=1254 |former=Yes |access-date=23 September 2019}}

| rowspan=2|{{Australian politics/name|Nationalist}}

| rowspan=2|1922–1927

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| H. V. Evatt{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965) |id=1554 |former=Yes |access-date=23 September 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| 1925–1927

colspan=4 style="border-right:0px;"; | 1927–1991, 1 member
colspan="2" | MemberPartyTerm
style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Independent}}| 

| H. V. Evatt{{hsp}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Independent Labor NSW}}

| 1927–1930

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| John Quirk{{hsp}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| 1930–1938

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| rowspan=4|Mary Quirk{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament | title = Mrs Mary Lily May Quirk (1880–1952) |id=1345 |former=Yes |access-date=8 May 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| 1939–1940

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|labor (non-communist)}}| 

| {{Australian politics/name|labor (non-communist)}}

| 1940–1941

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| 1941–1950

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Independent Labor NSW}}| 

| {{Australian politics/name|Independent Labor NSW}}

| 1950–1950

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| John McMahon{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |title=The Hon John Michael Alfred McMahon (1914–1975) |id=1738 |former=Yes |access-date=5 May 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| 1950–1968

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| Roger Degen{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Roger Charles Degen (1939– ) |id=1958 |former=Yes |access-date=11 May 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| 1968–1984

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| Peter Crawford{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Peter Thomson Crawford (1949–) |id=2057 |former=Yes |access-date=13 May 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| 1984–1988

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Independent}}| 

| Dawn Fraser{{hsp}}{{Cite NSW Parliament |title=Ms Dawn Fraser (1937– ) |id=1947 |former=Yes |access-date=13 May 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Independent}}

| 1988–1991

colspan="4" style='border-style: none none none none;' | 
colspan="4" | Third incarnation (2007–present, 1 member)
colspan="2" | MemberPartyTerm
style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Labor NSW}}| 

| Verity Firth{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title=The Hon. Verity Helen Firth (1973– ) |id=2194 |former=Yes |access-date=23 September 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Labor NSW}}

| 2007–2011

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Greens NSW}}| 

| Jamie Parker{{hsp}}{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Jamie Thomas Jamie Parker MP |id=82 |access-date=4 April 2019}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Greens NSW}}

| 2011–2023

style="background: #f9f9f9"

| {{Australian party style|Greens NSW}}| 

| Kobi Shetty{{hsp}}

| {{Australian politics/name|Greens NSW}}

| 2023–present

Election results

{{see also|Electoral results for the district of Balmain}}

{{Excerpt|Results of the 2023 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly)|section=Balmain}}

Notes

{{Notelist}}

References

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{{Electoral districts of New South Wales|state=expanded}}

{{Former electoral districts of New South Wales}}

{{Members of the Parliament of New South Wales}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Balmain}}

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