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Sydney

Results and projection across recent federal elections.

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Projection for Sydney

ALP
50.9%
GRN
24.7%
LIB
13.4%
ONP
9.6%

The line traces Sydney's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for inner-metropolitan seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. The actual 2028 projection number (shown at the end of the line, in the table below, and everywhere else on the site) also blends in NSW's own state-level polling 50/50 with this classification trend — the chart just doesn't visualize that second component, so the end of the line glides onto the real, state-blended number over its final stretch rather than matching the classification-only shape exactly. There's only one projection number for Sydney, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Labor wins in 95% of simulations
Labor 65.9%
Greens 34.1%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. The win-probability figure above comes from a separate 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation (see the Election Map page for methodology) built on this same TCP margin — it's how often that margin survives national polling uncertainty plus seat-level noise, not a different projection.

Get to know the electorate

Sydney

5.6%
Unemployment rate
0.5pt above Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Inner-metropolitan
Created
1968
Size
45 km²
Current member
Tanya Plibersek (Labor)
Population
204,215
Median age
33
Median household income
$2,225/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
1.5%

Ancestry

European
42.4%
Asian
17.3%
Australian
16.8%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
57.4%
Mandarin
8.9%
Cantonese
2.9%
Thai
2.9%
Spanish
2.4%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

No Religion
51.4%
Christian
19.6%
Buddhism
6.7%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

University Educated
52.4%
High School
20.6%
TAFE Educated
15.6%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Renting
61%
Owned (Active Mortgage)
21%
Owned (No Mortgage)
15%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

White collar
77%
Blue collar
21%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | Sydney

20222025Projection
ALP50.8%55.1%50.9%
LIB19.7%17.6%13.4%
GRN23.0%21.6%24.7%
ONP1.8%3.5%9.6%
Other4.7%2.2%1.4%

Latest update: 2 October 2026