Anderson decided to contest the Sydney seat of Dalley as an independent protectionist candidate.

Free won Labor preselection for the outer Sydney federal seat of Macquarie ahead of the 1980 election, and defeated the incumbent Liberal member Reg Gillard.

A single Social Credit candidate stood in the 1969 federal election in the Sydney seat of Banks, but gained only minor support.

In 2004, it was the Labor leader Mark Latham who attempted to lure McKew with preselection to the western Sydney seat.

At the time of their marriage, Billy Hughes represented a Sydney seat, but between 1917 and 1922 he represented Bendigo in Victoria.

In 1922 he won another Sydney seat and they returned there.

The future prime minister, Paul Keating, was first elected to federal parliament at this election, representing the Sydney seat of Blaxland.

Maintaining her interest in politics, Wake was endorsed as a Liberal candidate at the 1966 federal election for the Sydney seat of Kingsford Smith.

At the next election in 1858 he transferred to the two-member Sydney seat of Cumberland (South Riding).

He was a candidate to replace former Australian Liberal leader Brendan Nelson in his northern Sydney electoral seat of Bradfield.