Electoral district of Bligh

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Bligh was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was created in 1962, partly replacing Electoral district of Paddington-Waverley and was an urban electorate, covering 13.03 km² and taking in the suburbs of Potts Point, Darling Point, Woolloomooloo, Elizabeth Bay, Rushcutters Bay, Edgecliff, Darlinghurst, Paddington, Surry Hills, Redfern, Darlington and part of Chippendale. It was a highly diverse electorate, as it contained both some of the wealthiest suburbs of Sydney, along the edge of the harbour, as well as some of the city's most disadvantaged areas, such as those around Redfern. This had the effect of making Bligh a marginal seat, although as the wealthier suburbs outnumbered the poorer suburbs, it tended to be Template:Australian politics/name-leaning. Independent Clover Moore defeated the incumbent Liberal member Michael Yabsley in 1988 (Yabsley subsequently reentered Parliament in the Vaucluse by-election later that year) and held the seat until its abolition in 2007, when it was replaced by the electoral district of Sydney.

Members for Bligh

Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	Tom Morey REDIRECT Template:Hair space	Template:Australian politics/name	1962–1965
Template:Australian party style|	Morton Cohen REDIRECT Template:Hair space	Template:Australian politics/name	1965–1968
Template:Australian party style|	John Barraclough REDIRECT Template:Hair space	Template:Australian politics/name	1968–1981
Template:Australian party style|	Fred Miller REDIRECT Template:Hair space	Template:Australian politics/name	1981–1984
Template:Australian party style|	Michael Yabsley REDIRECT Template:Hair space	Template:Australian politics/name	1984–1988
Template:Australian party style|	Clover Moore REDIRECT Template:Hair space	Template:Australian politics/name	1988–2007