Verity Firth puts hand up for Balmain seat

Former NSW Education Minister Verity Firth has put her hand up to recontest the seat of Balmain at the 2015 election.

Former NSW education minister Verity Firth says she will run in the community preselection to be Labor's candidate for Balmain in the 2015 election.

Ms Firth narrowly lost the marginal inner city seat to Greens candidate Jamie Parker at the 2011 election.

It was the first seat the Greens have won in the NSW lower house.

"We really took it to the wire in Balmain and only lost by 200 votes so I feel my race is not over and I feel I have more to give," Ms Firth told ABC radio on Monday.

She will be competing in the community preselection against Leichhardt's high-profile mayor Darcy Byrne.


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