Skip to content
Federal electorate · Vic.

Cooper

Results and projection across recent federal elections.

Back to Election Map
Seat-level trend · Inner-metropolitan seats

Projection for Cooper

ALP
36.3%
GRN
28.5%
ONP
15.5%
LIB
11.6%

The line traces Cooper's real 2025 primary vote forward using the polling trend for inner-metropolitan seats nationally — not a poll of this seat specifically, and that category has only around 28 polls tracked over 14 months across every seat of its kind in the country, so read the shape of the line as directional, not a precise forecast. The actual 2028 projection number (shown at the end of the line, in the table below, and everywhere else on the site) also blends in Vic.'s own state-level polling 50/50 with this classification trend — the chart just doesn't visualize that second component, so the end of the line glides onto the real, state-blended number over its final stretch rather than matching the classification-only shape exactly. There's only one projection number for Cooper, this is just showing how the polling got there.

Labor wins in 76% of simulations
Labor 57.6%
Greens 42.4%

Two-candidate-preferred, 2028 projection — the top two contenders are recalculated from the projected primary votes above (so a surging party can break into contention even if it wasn't one of the top two last election), and every other party's vote is distributed between them as preferences using standard flow assumptions, not seat-specific sourced preference data. The win-probability figure above comes from a separate 10,000-run Monte Carlo simulation (see the Election Map page for methodology) built on this same TCP margin — it's how often that margin survives national polling uncertainty plus seat-level noise, not a different projection.

Get to know the electorate

Cooper

5.2%
Unemployment rate
0.1pt above Australia's 5.1% average
Classification
Inner-metropolitan
Created
2019
Size
61 km²
Current member
Ged Kearney (Labor)
Population
156,279
Median age
37
Median household income
$1,845/wk
Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
1.0%

Ancestry

European
58.6%
Australian
22.3%

People could report up to two ancestries. Grouped by region from the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller regions outside that list aren't counted.

Language spoken at home

English only
63.7%
Greek
5.6%
Italian
5.2%
Mandarin
3.1%
Arabic
2.5%

Language spoken most often at home.

Religious affiliation

No Religion
45%
Christian
30.1%
Islam
4.1%

All people. Christian combines denominations in the ABS's own top-5 responses for this seat — smaller denominations outside that list aren't counted. Other faiths shown individually.

Education (highest level attained)

University Educated
40%
High School
31.5%
TAFE Educated
18.3%

People aged 15+. University Educated: Bachelor degree or higher. TAFE Educated: Certificate or Diploma. High School: no further qualification.

Housing

Renting
38%
Owned (Active Mortgage)
30%
Owned (No Mortgage)
29%

Households. Owned (No Mortgage) / Owned (Active Mortgage) / Renting.

Occupation

White collar
68%
Blue collar
30%

Employed people (15+). White collar: Managers, Professionals, Clerical & Administrative, Sales. Blue collar: Trades, Community & Personal Service, Machinery Operators, Labourers.

Past Results | Cooper

20222025Projection
ALP41.3%42.0%36.3%
LIB16.4%15.1%11.6%
GRN27.4%25.2%28.5%
ONP3.0%5.3%15.5%
Other12.0%12.4%8.2%

Latest update: 2 October 2026