Division of Nepean

This article is about the federal electorate in New South Wales. For other uses, see Nepean (disambiguation).

Nepean Australian House of Representatives Division
Created:	1906
Abolished:	1922
Namesake:	Evan Nepean

The Division of Nepean was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the western suburbs of Sydney. It originally covered the suburbs of Granville, Lithgow and Penrith. After the redistribution of 27 February 1913 it also included the suburb of Homebush.

The Division was named for the Nepean River, which itself was named after British politician Evan Nepean. It was proclaimed at the redistribution of 13 July 1906, and was first contested at the 1906 Federal election. It was abolished at the redistribution of 13 September 1922.

Members

Member		Party	Term
	Eric Bowden	Anti-Socialist	1906–1909
		Commonwealth Liberal	1909–1910
	George Cann	Labor	1910–1913
	Richard Orchard	Commonwealth Liberal	1913–1916
		Nationalist	1916–1919
	Eric Bowden	Nationalist	1919–1922

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the Division of Nepean