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Federal division, inner-metropolitan

# Cowan

In Western Australia.

## Sitting member

- [![](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hon_Anne_Aly_MP_-_Official_Portrait_-_000187612_(cropped).jpg?width=96)**Anne Aly** Labor, Cowan ](https://politics.computer/mp/anne-aly)

About

## About Cowan

Cowan is an inner-northern Perth electoral division in Western Australia in the House of Representatives. It is held by Anne Aly of the Australian Labor Party, who is the seat's current member. The seat was created in 1984 and is named after Edith Cowan.

Created

1984

Named after

Edith Cowan, the first woman elected to an Australian Parliament

Classification

Inner-metropolitan

Current member

Anne Aly, Australian Labor Party

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

## Who's advertising

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

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

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- [Tangney](https://politics.computer/seats/federal/tangney)

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