| Warringah AustralianHouse of RepresentativesDivision | |||||||||||||||
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  Interactive map of electorate boundaries from the2025 federal election | |||||||||||||||
| Created | 1922 | ||||||||||||||
| MP | Zali Steggall | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Independent | ||||||||||||||
| Namesake | Warringah | ||||||||||||||
| Electors | 126,914 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 51 km2 (19.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Demographic | Inner metropolitan | ||||||||||||||
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TheDivision of Warringah (/wərɪŋɡə/wə-RING-gə) is anAustralian electoral division in thestate ofNew South Wales. It is on the north shore ofPort Jackson and theTasman Sea coast, stretching fromWollstonecraft toCurl Curl, comprisingNorth Sydney andManly.
Since2019 itsMP has beenZali Steggall, anIndependent. From 1994 to 2019, the seat was held byTony Abbott, who served asPrime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015.
Centred onMosman and theNorthern Beaches region ofSydney, it covers most of the land betweenMiddle Harbour and theTasman Sea. It extends fromPort Jackson in the south to the suburb ofCurl Curl in the north.
Warringah includes the suburbs ofAllambie,Allambie Heights,Balgowlah,Balgowlah Heights,Balmoral,Beauty Point,Brookvale,Cammeray,Clifton Gardens,Clontarf,Cremorne,Cremorne Point,Crows Nest, Curl Curl,Fairlight,Freshwater,Kirribilli,Kurraba Point,Lavender BayManly,Manly Vale,McMahons Point,Milsons Point, Mosman,Neutral Bay,North Balgowlah,North Head,North Manly,North Sydney,Queenscliff,Seaforth,Wingala,Waverton andWollstonecraft, as well as parts ofBeacon Hill,Frenchs Forest andNarraweena.[1]
Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by theAustralian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned.[2]
The division is named after theWarringah area of Sydney, which itself is named by anAboriginal Australian word which translates into English as "rain", "waves" or "sea". The Division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 13 September 1922, and was first contested at the1922 federal election.[1] Most of its territory had been part ofNorth Sydney from 1901 to 1922. The word "Warrin ga" was recorded as the local name for Middle Harbour in 1832.[3]
The electorate originally extended fromMosman toPittwater.[4] In 1949, it lost most of its territory in the north to the newDivision of Mackellar. In 2025, it acquired an area around North Sydney from the abolisheddivision of North Sydney.[5]
Before 2019, the area covered by Warringah had been held by a conservative party without interruption since Federation. TheLiberal Party of Australia and their predecessors held the seat without interruption from its creation until the2019 federal election whenZali Steggall won the seat as anIndependent.[6] Even by northern Sydney standards, Warringah has been especially unfriendly territory forLabor. For example, even in its1943 landslide, Labor was only able to garner 39 percent of the two-party vote in Warringah.
The seat's most notable member wasTony Abbott, who won the seat at a1994 by-election and served asPrime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He retained Warringah until being defeated by Steggall in 2019.[7] That election also saw Warringah become a notional marginal seat in a "traditional" two-party contest against Labor for the first time; Abbott would have held the seat on 52.1 percent against Labor, down from 61 percent in 2016. At the 2025 landslide, Labor won the two-party vote in Warringah.
| Image | Member | Party | Term | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Sir Granville Ryrie (1865–1937) | Nationalist | 16 December 1922 – 13 April 1927 | Previously held the Division ofNorth Sydney. Resigned to become theHigh Commissioner to the United Kingdom | |
.jpg) | Sir Archdale Parkhill (1878–1947) | 21 May 1927 – 7 May 1931 | Served as minister underLyons. Lost seat | ||
| United Australia | 7 May 1931 – 23 October 1937 | ||||
 | Percy Spender (1897–1985) | Independent United Australia | 23 October 1937 – 20 October 1938 | Served as minister underMenzies andFadden. Retired | |
| United Australia | 20 October 1938 – 23 February 1944 | ||||
| Independent | 23 February 1944 – 13 September 1945 | ||||
| Liberal | 13 September 1945 – 28 April 1951 | ||||
 | Francis Bland (1882–1967) | 28 April 1951 – 2 November 1961 | Retired | ||
 | John Cockle (1908–1966) | 9 December 1961 – 3 August 1966 | Died in office | ||
 | Edward St John (1916–1994) | 26 November 1966 – 28 March 1969 | Lost seat | ||
| Independent | 28 March 1969 – 25 October 1969 | ||||
.jpg) | Michael MacKellar (1938–2015) | Liberal | 25 October 1969 – 18 February 1994 | Served as minister underFraser. Resigned to retire from politics | |
 | Tony Abbott (1957–) | 26 March 1994 – 18 May 2019 | Served as minister underHoward. Served asOpposition Leader from 2009 to 2013. Served asPrime Minister from2013 to 2015. Lost seat | ||
 | Zali Steggall (1974–) | Independent | 18 May 2019 – present | Incumbent | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Zali Steggall | 45,590 | 39.68 | +7.16 | |
| Liberal | Jaimee Rogers | 36,446 | 31.72 | −2.55 | |
| Labor | Celine Varghese-Fell | 16,738 | 14.57 | +2.60 | |
| Greens | Bonnie Harvey | 10,051 | 8.75 | +0.87 | |
| One Nation | Gavin Wright | 1,978 | 1.72 | −0.06 | |
| Libertarian | Sean McLeod | 1,504 | 1.31 | +0.98 | |
| Trumpet of Patriots | Anthony Rose | 1,417 | 1.23 | +1.23 | |
| Independent | David Spratt | 1,171 | 1.02 | +1.02 | |
| Total formal votes | 114,895 | 95.42 | −1.15 | ||
| Informal votes | 5,520 | 4.58 | +1.15 | ||
| Turnout | 120,415 | 92.09 | +1.81 | ||
| Notionaltwo-party-preferred count | |||||
| Labor | Celine Varghese-Fell | 62,634 | 54.51 | +5.25 | |
| Liberal | Jaimee Rogers | 52,261 | 45.49 | −5.25 | |
| Two-candidate-preferred result | |||||
| Independent | Zali Steggall | 70,318 | 61.20 | +0.67 | |
| Liberal | Jaimee Rogers | 44,577 | 38.80 | −0.67 | |
| Independenthold | Swing | +0.67 | |||
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