[1] It was named for the suburb of East Sydney.
It was located in the inner eastern suburbs of Sydney, including Darlinghurst, Paddington, Redfern, Surry Hills and Waverley.
[1] From 1901 to 1955 the division included Lord Howe Island.
[2][3][4][5][6] After 1910 East Sydney was usually a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party.
Its most prominent members were Sir George Reid, who was Prime Minister of Australia in 1904-05, and Eddie Ward, a long-serving Labor member and Cabinet minister.