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

Kylea Tink, the MP for North Sydney. The AEC has proposed abolishing her seat in a federal redistribution. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

New South Wales was due to lose a federal seat, and on Friday 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 until the independent Kylea Tink’s Climate 200-fuelled victory in 2022.