Division of Cowper

Cowper Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Cowper in New South Wales, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1901
MP	Luke Hartsuyker
Party	National
Namesake	Charles Cowper
Electors	118,388 (2016)
Area	7,296 km2 (2,817.0 sq mi)
Demographic	Rural

The Division of Cowper is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Charles Cowper, an early Premier of New South Wales.

The division is located on the north coast of New South Wales, and on its current boundaries takes in the towns of Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Kempsey, Macksville and Nambucca Heads.

The Member for Cowper, since the 2001 election, is Luke Hartsuyker, a member of the National Party of Australia.

Except for one brief break, the seat has been held by the National Party (previously known as the Country Party) and its predecessors since 1919. Its most prominent member has been Sir Earle Page, former leader of the Country Party and interim Prime Minister of Australia in 1939. He represented Cowper from 1919 to 1961, longer than any other MP who represented one seat for his entire career. It has usually been fairly safe for that party, and became even more so when its more urbanised area (including Page's hometown of Grafton) was shifted to the newly created Division of Page in 1984.