Division of Kooyong

Kooyong Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Kooyong in Victoria, as of the 2016 federal election.
Created	1901
MP	Josh Frydenberg
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Kooyong, Victoria
Electors	100,108 (2016)
Area	52 km2 (20.1 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. The Division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 75 divisions to be contested at the first Federal election. It covers an area of approximately 52 km² (20 sq mi) in the inner-east suburbs of Melbourne. It is named after the suburb of Kooyong, on which it was originally based. However, Kooyong has not been in its namesake electorate for some time, being instead in neighbouring Higgins. Nonetheless, the seat has retained the name of Kooyong, primarily because the Australian Electoral Commission's guidelines on electoral redistributions require it to preserve the names of original electorates where possible.

It is currently based on Kew, and also includes Balwyn, Camberwell, Canterbury, Hawthorn and parts of Surrey Hills.

Kooyong has been held by the Liberal Party of Australia and its predecessors for its entire existence. It is one of two original electorates in Victoria to have never been won by the Australian Labor Party, the other being Gippsland. For decades, it has been one of the safest Coalition seats in metropolitan Australia; Labor presently needs an 11-point swing to win it.