Division of Kooyong facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Kooyong Australian House of Representatives Division
Division of Kooyong (green) in Victoria
Created	1901
MP	Josh Frydenberg
Party	Liberal
Namesake	Kooyong, Victoria
Electors	89,626 (2010)
Area	49 km2 (18.9 sq mi)
Demographic	Inner Metropolitan

The Division of Kooyong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It was one of the divisions for the first Federal election in 1901. It includes the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Balwyn, Canterbury, Camberwell and Surrey Hills. It is named after the suburb of Kooyong. Kooyong is an Indigenous Australian word meaning resting place. Because of boundary changes over the years, the suburb of Kooyong is no longer in the Division and is now in the Division of Higgins.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	William Knox	Free Trade, Anti-Socialist	1901–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1910
	Sir Robert Best	Commonwealth Liberal	1910–1917
		Nationalist	1917–1922
	John Latham	Liberal Union	1922–1925
		Nationalist	1925–1931
		United Australia	1931–1934
	Sir Robert Menzies	United Australia	1934–1944
		Liberal	1944–1966
	Andrew Peacock	Liberal	1966–1994
	Petro Georgiou	Liberal	1994–2010
	Josh Frydenberg	Liberal	2010–present

Kooyong has been held by non-Labor parties since 1901. Famous members include the Opposition Leader and later Chief Justice John Latham, Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock.

Election results

Preceded by Cowper

Division represented by the Prime Minister 1939–1941 Sir Robert Menzies

Succeeded by Darling Downs

Preceded by Macquarie

Division represented by the Prime Minister 1949–1966 Sir Robert Menzies

Succeeded by Higgins

Images for kids

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  Kooyong Stadium. The division (containing the suburb and stadium of Kooyong) takes its name from an Aboriginal word for camp or resting place.