Goodbye, North Sydney: Electorate Disappears Under Redrawn Boundaries

The federal electorate of North Sydney is the major casualty of the Australian Electoral Commission’s boundary redrawing, leaving an independent without a seat.

Independent member for North Sydney Kylea Tink at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Aug. 4, 2022. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has redrawn federal electorates for New South Wales, leaving independent ‘Teal’ MP Kylea Tink without a seat.

The total number of seats has been reduced by one, to 46, and based on the traditional two-party preferred results, Labor will lose a seat, dropping to 26, while the Coalition remains at 20. The number of independents will drop from five to four.