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Former Australian federal electoral division This article is about the federal electorate in New South Wales. For the Victoria electorate, see Electoral district of Nepean. For the NSW electorate, see Electoral district of Nepean (New South Wales).

Australian electorate

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 and divided between six electorates: Macquarie, Martin, Parramatta, Reid, Robertson and Werriwa.

Members

Member	Party	Term	Notes
Eric Bowden (1871–1931)	Anti-Socialist	12 December 1906 – 26 May 1909	Lost seat. Later elected to Nepean in 1919
Eric Bowden (1871–1931)	Liberal	26 May 1909 – 13 April 1910	Lost seat. Later elected to Nepean in 1919
George Cann (1871–1948)	Labor	13 April 1910 – 31 May 1913	Lost seat. Later elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Canterbury in 1914
Richard Orchard (1871–1942)	Liberal	31 May 1913 – 17 February 1917	Served as minister under Hughes. Retired
Richard Orchard (1871–1942)	Nationalist	17 February 1917 – 3 November 1919	Served as minister under Hughes. Retired
Eric Bowden (1871–1931)	Nationalist	13 December 1919 – 16 December 1922	Elected to the Division of Parramatta after Nepean was abolished in 1922

1919 Australian federal election: Nepean
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nationalist	Eric Bowden	20,630	57.1	−3.4
	Labor	Con Wallace	15,524	42.9	+3.4
Total formal votes			36,154	97.8
Informal votes			814	2.2
Turnout			36,968	68.6
	Nationalist hold		Swing	−3.4

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"Redistribution: new divisions, NSW gains a seat". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 July 1922. p. 11. Retrieved 15 October 2020 – via Trove.

v t e Electoral divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in New South Wales
Labor (26)	Barton Bennelong Blaxland Chifley Cunningham Dobell Eden-Monaro Gilmore Grayndler Greenway Hunter Kingsford Smith Macarthur Macquarie McMahon Newcastle Parramatta Paterson Reid Richmond Robertson Shortland Sydney Watson Werriwa Whitlam
Liberal (9)	Banks Berowra Bradfield Cook Farrer Hughes Hume Lindsay Mitchell
Nationals (6)	Cowper Lyne New England Page Parkes Riverina
Independent (6)	Calare Fowler Mackellar North Sydney Warringah Wentworth
Abolished	Barrier Bland Canobolas Charlton Cook (1906–1955) Dalley Darling Dundas East Sydney Evans Gwydir Illawarra Lang Lawson Lowe Martin Nepean Parkes (1901–1969) Phillip Prospect Riverina-Darling St George South Sydney Throsby Watson (1934–1969) West Sydney
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