Division of Cooper
The Division of Cooper is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It takes in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. The division was contested for the first time at the 2019 federal election, with Ged Kearney of the Australian Labor Party elected as its inaugural member of parliament. She had previously represented the Division of Batman since the 2018 by-election.History
The division is named in honour of the Aboriginal Australian political activist William Cooper.
The Division of Cooper was created in 2018 after the Australian Electoral Commission oversaw a mandatory redistribution of divisions in Victoria. Cooper's geography mirrors almost entirely the Division of Batman, which it replaced in the redistribution. Unlike Batman, Cooper includes parts of Coburg North which had previously belonged in the neighbouring division of Wills, though it no longer features parts of Thomastown, Bundoora and Clifton Hill.
The seat is notionally held by the Labor Party on a 0.6% margin over the Greens, when compared to the result for Batman at the 2016 federal election.Members
