Electoral shake-up leaves awkward questions for the teals – and headaches for the major parties

Liberal party now has candidates preselected for seats that no longer exist while Labor dealt a blow in the seat of Bennelong

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New South Wales was due to lose a federal seat, and yesterday the axe fell on Liberal turned teal North Sydney with the Australian Electoral Commission's proposal of new electoral boundaries.

The blue ribbon seat of North Sydney has existed since 1901, and had been held by the Liberal party and its predecessors for all but two terms prior to independent Kylea Tink's Climate 200-fuelled victory in 2022.

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