It was represented by two Members of Parliament, including Catherine Stewart, the country's second female MP.
The 1931 New Zealand census had been cancelled due to the Great Depression, so the 1937 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth into account.
By population, it mostly gained areas from the Wellington Suburbs electorate.
She won the election in 1938, when she defeated long-standing MP Robert Wright who had previously represented the Wellington Suburbs electorate.
[8] At the end of the term in 1946, the electorate was abolished, and Bowden moved to Karori.