Division of Cook (1906–55)

Cook Australian House of Representatives Division
Created	1906
Abolished	1955
Namesake	James Cook

The Division of Cook was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1906 and abolished in 1955. The Division was named for James Cook, who discovered the east coast of Australia in 1770. It was located in the inner suburbs of Sydney, taking in the suburbs of Alexandria, Redfern and Surry Hills. It has been a safe seat for the Australian Labor Party, but in the 1930s and 40s it was fiercely contested between Federal Labor and Lang Labor factions of the party.

Members

	Party	Term
James Catts	Labor	1906–1922
James Catts	Majority Labor	1922–1922
Edward Riley	Labor	1922–1934
Jock Garden	Labor (NSW)	1934–1936
Jock Garden	Labor	1936–1937
Tom Sheehan	Labor	1937–1940
	Labor (Non-Communist)	1940–1941
	Labor	1941–1955
Jim Cope	Labor	1955–1955

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Cook (1906–55)

Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in New South Wales

Banks Barton Bennelong Berowra Blaxland Bradfield Calare Charlton Chifley Cook Cowper Cunningham Dobell Eden-Monaro Farrer Fowler Gilmore Grayndler Greenway Hughes Hume Hunter Kingsford Smith Lindsay Lyne Macarthur Mackellar Macquarie McMahon Mitchell New England Newcastle North Sydney Page Parkes Parramatta Paterson Reid Richmond Riverina Robertson Shortland Sydney Throsby Warringah Watson Wentworth Werriwa Abolished: Barrier Bland Canobolas Cook (1906–55) Dalley Darling Dundas East Sydney Evans Gwydir Illawarra Lang Lawson Lowe Martin Nepean Parkes (1901–69) Phillip Prospect Riverina-Darling St George South Sydney Watson (1934–69) West Sydney

Divisions in: New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Australian Capital and Northern Territories

Division of Cook (1906–55)

Members

Election results

See also