Cowper was the seat of Country Party founder Earle Page, who held the seat for 42 years from 1919 to 1961. Page served briefly as Australia's 11th Prime Minister in 1939 between the death of Joe ...

The redistribution ahead of the 1993 election re-drew the seat as a compact South Coast electorate, and Sharp moved on to represent the electorate of Hume. Labor had a record result in NSW at the ...