HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES INDEX OF DIVISIONS ===================================================================== NORTHERN MELBOURNE / BATMAN / COOPER, Victoria ===================================================================== * Northern Melbourne named for: region of the City of Melbourne * Batman named for: John Batman (1801-39), one of the founders of Melbourne * Cooper named for: William Cooper (1860-1941), Indigenous activist (This is the only Division to have been renamed twice.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Created 1901 Redistributed 1906 (renamed Batman), 1913, 1922, 1937, 1949, 1955, 1969, 1977, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2004, 2013, 2019 (renamed Cooper), 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901: Carlton, Fitzroy South, North Carlton, North Melbourne 1906: Clifton Hill, Collingwood, Delbridge, Fitzroy 1913: Carlton, Clifton Hill, Fitzroy, North Carlton 1922: Alphington, Fitzroy North, Northcote, Preston 1937: Fitzroy North, Northcote, Preston, Westgarth 1949: Alphington, Delbridge, Ivanhoe, Northcote 1955: Alphington, Ivanhoe, Northcote, Thornbury 1969: Alphington, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Northcote 1977: Alphington, Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Northcote 1984: Alphington, Fairfield, Northcote, Reservoir 1990: Croxton, Northcote, Preston, Thornbury 1996: Northcote, Preston, Reservoir, Thornbury 2004: Northcote, Preston, Reservoir, Thornbury 2013: Northcote, Preston, Reservoir, Thornbury 2018: Northcote, Preston, Reservoir, Thornbury 2021: Northcote, Preston, Reservoir, Thornbury --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrolments --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 15,280 1943 68,596 (+08.8) 1983 71,590 (-01.8) 1903 35,542 (+132.6) 1946 73,180 (+06.7) 1984 65,980 (-07.8) 1906* 30,590 (-13.9) 1949* 41,020 (-44.0) 1987 65,659 (-00.5) 1910 31,445 (+02.8) 1951 40,926 (-00.2) 1990* 75,344 (+14.8) 1913* 42,339 (+34.6) 1954 39,157 (-04.3) 1993 78,231 (+03.8) 1914 38,332 (-09.5) 1955* 46,399 (+18.5) 1996* 85,556 (+09.4) 1917 35,897 (-06.4) 1958 45,367 (-02.2) 1998 88,134 (+03.0) 1919 37,200 (+03.6) 1961 44,434 (-02.1) 2001 89,709 (+01.8) 1922* 46,597 (+25.3) 1963 42,858 (-03.5) 2004* 85,747 (-04.4) 1925 59,971 (+28.7) 1966 42,231 (-01.5) 2007 88,052 (+02.6) 1928 67,112 (+11.9) 1969* 58,776 (+39.2) 2010 89,160 (+00.7) 1929 66,059 (-01.6) 1972 57,638 (-01.9) 2013* 103,012 (+15.5) 1931 67,893 (+02.8) 1974 61,907 (+07.4) 2016 108,935 (+05.7) 1934 70,364 (+03.6) 1975 61,420 (-00.8) 2019* 110,836 (+01.7) 1937* 60,380 (-14.2) 1977* 72,200 (+17.6) 2022* 108,610 (-01.8) 1940 63,065 (+04.4) 1980 72,932 (+01.0) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Two-party majorities --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1901 1903 1906 1910 1911b 1913 1914 1917 1919 1922 - na -20.3 -01.7 +13.6 +07.5 +14.9 + na +10.9 +07.1 +03.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 1928 1929 1931 1934 1937 1940 1943 1946 1949 +09.0 +13.8 +25.8 -00.8 +06.1 +13.4 +09.7 +24.6 +16.7 +08.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1951 1954 1955 1958 1961 1962b 1963 1966 1969 1972 +10.6 +09.8 +01.7 +03.0 +05.4 + na +00.9 - na +03.0 +06.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1974 1975 1977 1980 1983 1984 1987 1990 1993 1996 +10.4 +04.4 +03.4 +10.7 +17.1 +24.7 +22.8 +17.4 +23.4 +21.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016 2018b 2019 2022 +26.4 +25.1 +21.3 +26.0 + na + na + na + na + na + na --------------------------------------------------------------------- Members --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hon Henry Higgins (Prot) 1901-06 Sam Benson (ALP, Ind) 1962b-69 Jabez Coon (Prot, Lib) 1906-10 Horace Garrick (ALP) 1969-77 Henry Beard (ALP) 1910-11 Hon Brian Howe (ALP) 1977-96 Hon Frank Brennan (ALP) 1911b-31 Hon Martin Ferguson (ALP) 1996- Samuel Dennis (UAP) 1931-34 2013 Hon Frank Brennan (ALP) 1934-49 Hon David Feeney (ALP) 2013-18 Alan Bird (ALP) 1949-62 Hon Ged Kearney (ALP) 2018b- ---------------------------------------------------------------------