Wentworth AustralianHouse of RepresentativesDivision
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Created	1901
MP	Allegra Spender
Party	Independent
Namesake	William Charles Wentworth
Electors	127,511 (2025)
Area	31 km2 (12.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner metropolitan
Electorates around Wentworth: Warringah Warringah Tasman Sea Sydney Wentworth Tasman Sea Kingsford Smith Kingsford Smith Tasman Sea

TheDivision of Wentworth is anAustralian electoral division in thestate ofNew South Wales. The division encompasses the suburbs east ofSydney CBD, mostlyWoollahra andWaverley councils in Sydney'sEastern Suburbs.

Since2022 itsMP has beenAllegra Spender, anIndependent. From 2004 to 2018, the seat was held byMalcolm Turnbull, who served asPrime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018.

The division was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of theoriginal 65 divisions contested at thefirst federal election. The division is named afterWilliam Charles Wentworth (1790–1872), an Australian explorer and statesman. In 1813 he accompaniedBlaxland andLawson on their crossing of theBlue Mountains. Wentworth was also an advocate of free and representative government in Australia.^[1]

Historically considered a safe seat for theLiberal Party of Australia and its predecessors, Wentworth is the only original federation division in New South Wales which has never been held by theAustralian Labor Party, though Labor candidateJessie Street came within 1.6 percent of winning Wentworth at the1943 election landslide. The electorate is the nation's wealthiest, contains the nation's largest Jewish population and contains the nation's fifth-largest number of same-sex couples.^[2]

Its most prominent member wasMalcolm Turnbull, who served asLeader of the Opposition from 2008 to 2009 and asPrime Minister of Australia fromSeptember 2015 untilAugust 2018. Other prominent members have includedSir Eric Harrison, who was the first Deputy of theLiberal Party;Les Bury andBob Ellicott, who both served as prolific ministers in successive Liberal governments of the 1960s and 1970s;Peter Coleman, who had served asNew South Wales Opposition Leader from 1977 until he lost his seat in the1978 state election; andJohn Hewson, who served as Opposition Leader from 1990 to 1994. Like Turnbull after him, Hewson served as federal Liberal leader whilst in his second term as the MP for Wentworth.

In August 2018, a challenge byPeter Dutton led totwo Liberal leadership spills. Following the second spill on 24 August 2018, TreasurerScott Morrison defeated Dutton in a leadership ballot. Turnbull did not nominate as a candidate, and immediately resigned as Prime Minister. On 31 August 2018 Turnbull resigned from Parliament,^[3] triggering the2018 Wentworth by-election on 20 October 2018,^[4] which was won byindependent candidateKerryn Phelps.^[5] Phelps narrowly lost her seat to LiberalDave Sharma in the2019 Australian federal election.

Sharma lost the seat in theMay 2022 Australian federal election to "teal independent"Allegra Spender.^[6]

In 2025, a large swing against the Liberals, alongside major redistribution making the seat more notionally competitive, lead to Labor winning the notional two-party preferred in the electorate for the first time since the electorate's formation in 1901.

Wentworth is the smallest geographical electoral division in Australia with an area of just 31 square kilometres (12 sq mi),^[7] coveringWoolloomooloo along the southern shore ofSydney Harbour toWatsons Bay and down the coast toClovelly—an area largely coextensive with Sydney'sEastern Suburbs. The western boundary runs alongCollege Street,Oxford Street, Flinders Street and South Dowling Street, then eastward along Alison Road toRandwick Racecourse andClovelly Beach. It includes the suburbs ofBellevue Hill,Ben Buckler,Bondi,Bondi Beach,Bondi Junction,Bronte,Centennial Park,Clovelly,Darling Point,Double Bay,Dover Heights,East Sydney,Edgecliff,Elizabeth Bay,Kings Cross,Moore Park,North Bondi,Paddington,Point Piper,Potts Point,Queens Park,Rose Bay,Rushcutters Bay,Tamarama,Vaucluse,Watsons Bay,Waverley andWoollahra; as well as parts ofCoogee,Darlinghurst andRandwick.

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.^[8]

Image		Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Sir William McMillan (1850–1926)	Free Trade	29 March 1901 – 23 November 1903	Previously held theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly seat ofBurwood. Retired
		Willie Kelly (1877–1960)		16 December 1903 – 1906	Served as minister underCook. Retired
			Anti-Socialist	1906 – 26 May 1909
			Liberal	26 May 1909 – 17 February 1917
			Nationalist	17 February 1917 – 3 November 1919
		Walter Marks (1875–1951)		13 December 1919 – September 1929	Lost seat
			Ind. Nationalist	September 1929 – 2 December 1929
			Australian	2 December 1929 – September 1930
			Independent	September 1930 – 7 May 1931
			United Australia	7 May 1931 – 19 December 1931
		(Sir) Eric Harrison (1892–1974)		19 December 1931 – 21 February 1945	Served as minister underLyons,Page,Menzies andFadden. Resigned to become theHigh Commissioner to the United Kingdom
			Liberal	21 February 1945 – 17 October 1956
		Les Bury (1913–1986)		8 December 1956 – 11 April 1974	Served as minister underMenzies,Holt,McEwen,Gorton andMcMahon. Lost preselection and retired
		Bob Ellicott (1927–2022)		18 May 1974 – 17 February 1981	Served as minister underFraser. Resigned to become a judge on theFederal Court
		Peter Coleman (1928–2019)		11 April 1981 – 5 June 1987	Previously held theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly seat ofFuller. Retired
		John Hewson (1946–)		11 July 1987 – 28 February 1995	Served asOpposition Leader from 1990 to 1994. Resigned to retire from politics
		Andrew Thomson (1961–)		8 April 1995 – 8 October 2001	Served as minister underHoward. Lost preselection and retired
		Peter King (1952–)		10 November 2001 – 3 September 2004	Lost preselection and then lost seat
			Independent	3 September 2004 – 9 October 2004
		Malcolm Turnbull (1954–)	Liberal	9 October 2004 – 31 August 2018	Served as minister underHoward andAbbott. Served asOpposition Leader from 2008 to 2009. Served asPrime Minister from2015 to 2018. Resigned to retire from politics
		Kerryn Phelps (1957–)	Independent	20 October 2018 – 18 May 2019	Lost seat
		Dave Sharma (1975–)	Liberal	18 May 2019 – 21 May 2022	Lost seat. Later appointed to theSenate in 2023.
		Allegra Spender (1978–)	Independent	21 May 2022 – present	Incumbent

• Division of Wentworth – Australian Electoral Commission

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