Editing Division of Barker (section)

{{short description|Australian federal electoral division}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox Australian Electorate
| federal   = yes
| name      = Barker
| image     = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|from=Australian Federal Electorates/South Australia (2019)/Barker.map|frame-height=300|frame-width=400|overlay=[[File:Division of Barker 2019.png|x100px]]|overlay-horizontal-alignment=right|overlay-vertical-alignment=bottom}}
| caption   = Interactive map of boundaries since the [[2019 Australian federal election|2019 federal election]]
| created   = 1903
| mp        = [[Tony Pasin]]
| mp-party  = [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]
| namesake  = [[Collet Barker]]
| electors  = 123518
| electors_year = [[2022 Australian federal election|2022]]
| area      = 63886
| class     = Rural
}}

The '''Division of Barker''' is an [[Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives|Australian electoral division]] in the south-east of [[South Australia]]. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original [[Division of South Australia|single multi-member division]] was split into seven single-member divisions.  It is named for [[Collet Barker|Captain Collet Barker]], a British military officer and early explorer, prior to the British Settlement of South Australia, of the southern [[Mount Lofty Ranges]], [[Fleurieu Peninsula]] and the region at the mouth of the [[Murray River]] near the [[Coorong National Park|Coorong]] where he died in 1831 whilst on active duty after successfully solo [[swimming]] the [[Channel (geography)|channel]] of water and went [[compass]] in hand over a sandhill.