Division of Nepean

This article is about the federal electorate in New South Wales. For the Victoria electorate, see Electoral district of Nepean. For the NSW electorate, see Electoral district of Nepean (New South Wales).

The Division of Nepean was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the western suburbs of Sydney. It originally covered the suburbs of Granville, Lithgow and Penrith. After the redistribution of 27 February 1913 it also included the suburb of Homebush.

Nepean Australian House of Representatives Division
Created	1906
Abolished	1922
Namesake	Evan Nepean

The Division was named for the Nepean River,^[1] which itself was named after British politician Evan Nepean.^[2] It was proclaimed at the redistribution of 13 July 1906, and was first contested at the 1906 Federal election.^[3] It was abolished at the redistribution of 13 September 1922 and divided between six electorates: Macquarie, Martin, Parramatta, Reid, Robertson and Werriwa.^[4]

Members

Image		Member	Party	Term	Notes
		Eric Bowden (1871–1931)	Anti-Socialist	12 December 1906 – 26 May 1909	Lost seat. Later elected to Nepean in 1919
			Liberal	26 May 1909 – 13 April 1910
		George Cann (1871–1948)	Labor	13 April 1910 – 31 May 1913	Lost seat. Later elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Canterbury in 1914
		Richard Orchard (1871–1942)	Liberal	31 May 1913 – 17 February 1917	Served as minister under Hughes. Retired
			Nationalist	17 February 1917 – 3 November 1919
		Eric Bowden (1871–1931)		13 December 1919 – 16 December 1922	Elected to the Division of Parramatta after Nepean was abolished in 1922

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Nepean

1919 Australian federal election: Nepean

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Eric Bowden	20,630	57.1	−3.4
	Labor	Con Wallace	15,524	42.9	+3.4
Total formal votes			36,154	97.8
Informal votes			814	2.2
Turnout			36,968	68.6
	Nationalist hold		Swing	−3.4

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 1919 Australian federal election (House of Representatives) § Nepean.[edit]

References

1. "Electoral division names no longer in use". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
2. "Nepean River". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
3. Carr, Adam. "1906 legislative election: House of Representatives, New South Wales". Psephos. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
4. "Redistribution: new divisions, NSW gains a seat". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 July 1922. p. 11. Retrieved 15 October 2020 – via Trove.