[1] Historically considered a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia and its predecessors, Wentworth is one of only two original federation divisions in New South Wales, along with the Division of North Sydney, which have never been held by the Australian Labor Party, though Labor candidate Jessie Street came within 1.6 percent of winning Wentworth at the 1943 election landslide.
[2] Its most prominent member was Malcolm Turnbull, who served as Leader of the Opposition from 2008 to 2009 and as Prime Minister of Australia from September 2015 until August 2018.
On 31 August 2018 Turnbull resigned from Parliament,[3] triggering the 2018 Wentworth by-election on 20 October 2018,[4] which was won by independent candidate Kerryn Phelps.
Sharma lost the seat in the May 2022 Australian federal election to "teal independent" Allegra Spender amid the Liberal collapse in the North Shore.
[7] Wentworth is the second-smallest geographical electoral division in the Parliament with an area of just 38 square kilometres (15 sq mi), covering Woolloomooloo along the southern shore of Sydney Harbour to Watsons Bay and down the coast to Clovelly—an area largely coextensive with Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.