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Federal division, inner-metropolitan

# Cooper

In Victoria.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ged_Kearney_2022.jpg?width=96)**Ged Kearney** Labor, Cooper ](https://politics.computer/mp/ged-kearney)

About

## About Cooper

Cooper is an inner-metropolitan division of the House of Representatives in Victoria, covering the northern suburbs of Melbourne. It is held by Ged Kearney of the Australian Labor Party. The division was created in 2018 and was first contested at the 2019 federal election.

Created

2018, after a mandatory redistribution of Victorian divisions

First contested

2019 federal election

Named after

William Cooper (1861–1941), Aboriginal Australian political activist

Sitting member's previous seat

Division of Batman, from the 2018 by-election

Summarised by AI from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division%5Fof%5FCooper), plus our own records. Sources last checked 11 November 2026.

## Who's advertising

MPs and candidates for Cooper whose Facebook pages we follow, by what they've spent.

We don't follow any candidate's page for Cooper yet, so there are no ads here. Statewide and party ads that reach Cooper are on the [spending](https://politics.computer/who) page.

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