Casey — Australian Federal Election Results

Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30

Casey was won by Tony Smith (Liberal) at the 2019 federal election, with a margin of 9,274 votes over Bill Brindle after preferences. This page covers every federal election in Casey from 1969 to 2019.

Australia uses instant-runoff (preferential) voting: voters rank candidates in order of preference, and if no one has a majority of first-preference votes, the lowest-placed candidate is eliminated and their votes redistributed to voters' next preference, repeating until one candidate has a majority. The "Winner" and "Margin" below reflect the final result after preferences (equivalent to the AEC's own two-candidate-preferred figure) — not simply whoever led on first preferences, which can occasionally be a different candidate.

Full Election History (After Preferences), 1969–2019

Election	Winner	Party	Final Votes	Final Share	Runner-up	Margin
1969	Peter Howson	Liberal	27,390	55.0%	Duncan Waterson (Labor)	5,015 (10.1 pts)
1972	Race Mathews	Labor	30,577	56.0%	Peter Howson (Liberal)	6,567 (12.0 pts)
1974	Race Mathews	Labor	35,884	51.5%	Peter Falconer (Liberal)	2,044 (2.9 pts)
1975	Peter Falconer	Liberal	39,597	56.4%	Race Mathews (Labor)	8,986 (12.8 pts)
1977	Peter Falconer	Liberal	31,979	62.3%	Peter Watson (Labor)	12,598 (24.5 pts)
1980	Peter Falconer	Liberal	35,527	51.9%	Peter Watson (Labor)	2,598 (3.8 pts)
1983	Peter Steedman	Labor	38,312	50.7%	Peter Falconer (Liberal)	1,015 (1.3 pts)
1984	Robert Halverson	Liberal	28,854	50.6%	Peter Steedman (Labor)	661 (1.2 pts)
1987	Robert Halverson	Liberal	33,125	51.2%	David Mckenzie (Labor)	1,597 (2.5 pts)
1990	Robert Halverson	Liberal	39,540	58.2%	Jon Linehan (Labor)	11,183 (16.5 pts)
1993	Robert Halverson	Liberal	41,199	56.0%	Julie Warren (Labor)	8,790 (11.9 pts)
1996	Robert Halverson	Liberal	40,479	56.6%	Des Burns (Labor)	9,498 (13.3 pts)
1998	Michael Wooldridge	Liberal	40,598	54.9%	Frank Armenio (Labor)	7,203 (9.7 pts)
2001	Tony Smith	Liberal	45,004	57.2%	David Mckenzie (Labor)	11,281 (14.3 pts)
2004	Tony Smith	Liberal	49,111	61.3%	Tony Dib (Labor)	18,165 (22.7 pts)
2007	Tony Smith	Liberal	46,726	55.9%	Dympna Beard (Labor)	9,914 (11.9 pts)
2013	Tony Smith	Liberal	50,615	57.2%	Cathy Farrell (Labor)	12,701 (14.3 pts)
2016	Tony Smith	Liberal	51,703	56.1%	Hovig Melkonian (Labor)	11,175 (12.1 pts)
2019	Tony Smith	Liberal	54,551	54.6%	Bill Brindle (Labor)	9,274 (9.3 pts)

First-Preference Result by Election

Every candidate's first-preference votes, before any preference redistribution.

1969

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Peter Howson	Liberal	21,517	43.2%
Duncan Waterson	Labor	20,420	41.0%
Kevin Adamson	Democratic Labor Party	5,656	11.4%
Leonard Weber	AP	1,852	3.7%
Joe Schillani	Independent	320	0.6%

1972

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Race Mathews	Labor	27,845	46.9%
Peter Howson	Liberal	23,079	38.9%
Kevin Adamson	Democratic Labor Party	4,242	7.1%
Clive Champion	AP	2,277	3.8%
Margaret Briggs	Independent	749	1.3%
Alfred Andrews	Independent	727	1.2%
Roderick Matthews	Independent	416	0.7%

1974

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Race Mathews	Labor	34,409	49.4%
Peter Falconer	Liberal	30,191	43.3%
Clive Champion	AP	2,552	3.7%
John Mckenna	Democratic Labor Party	2,411	3.5%
Joe Schillani	Independent	161	0.2%

1975

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Peter Falconer	Liberal	39,597	53.0%
Race Mathews	Labor	30,611	40.9%
John Mckenna	Democratic Labor Party	2,289	3.1%
Murray Deerbon	AP	1,340	1.8%
Marc Aussie-Stone	Independent	923	1.2%

1977

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Peter Falconer	Liberal	29,896	48.3%
Peter Watson	Labor	18,772	30.3%
Malcolm Whittle	Australian Democrats	10,314	16.7%
Francis Feltham	Democratic Labor Party	1,761	2.8%
Martin Heatherich	Independent	694	1.1%
Stanley Hillman	Independent	343	0.6%
Henry Leggett	Independent	151	0.2%

1980

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Peter Falconer	Liberal	31,107	45.4%
Peter Watson	Labor	26,841	39.2%
Basil Smith	Australian Democrats	7,032	10.3%
Bertram Wainer	Independent	2,720	4.0%
Martin Heatherich	Independent	563	0.8%
Wilfrid Thiele	Independent	193	0.3%

1983

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Peter Steedman	Labor	34,810	46.0%
Peter Falconer	Liberal	33,335	44.1%
Michael Nardella	Australian Democrats	5,646	7.5%
Martin Heatherich	Independent	931	1.2%
John Garratt	Democratic Labor Party	887	1.2%

1984

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Peter Steedman	Labor	25,240	44.2%
Robert Halverson	Liberal	25,070	43.9%
Michael Nardella	Australian Democrats	3,709	6.5%
John Garratt	Democratic Labor Party	1,744	3.1%
Robert Gray	National	729	1.3%
Rosamund Ewan	Independent	564	1.0%

1987

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Robert Halverson	Liberal	30,225	46.7%
David Mckenzie	Labor	27,891	43.1%
Chris Mar	Australian Democrats	5,071	7.8%
Roy Haffenden	National	861	1.3%
Flo Madden	Independent	617	1.0%

1990

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Robert Halverson	Liberal	33,006	48.5%
Jon Linehan	Labor	20,270	29.8%
Paul Rees	Australian Democrats	10,124	14.9%
John Dubbeld	Communist Party	3,718	5.5%
Earle Keegel	Independent	531	0.8%
Basil Smith	Independent	361	0.5%

1993

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Robert Halverson	Liberal	38,716	52.6%
Julie Warren	Labor	29,277	39.7%
Sam Ginsberg	Australian Democrats	4,574	6.2%
Robert Kendi	Independent	1,104	1.5%

1996

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Robert Halverson	Liberal	35,943	50.0%
Des Burns	Labor	25,722	35.8%
Glen Maddock	Australian Democrats	7,140	9.9%
Chanel Keane	Greens	2,360	3.3%
Robert Kenci	Independent	350	0.5%
Basil Smith	Independent	332	0.5%

1998

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Michael Wooldridge	Liberal	34,322	46.4%
Frank Armenio	Labor	24,732	33.4%
John Mclaren	Australian Democrats	5,481	7.4%
Stephen Beck	One Nation	2,412	3.3%
John Mackellar	Independent	2,067	2.8%
Chris James	Greens	1,634	2.2%
Judy Warwick	Independent	1,070	1.4%
Basil Smidt	Christian Democratic Party	917	1.2%
Robert Kendi	Independent	557	0.8%
Gary Smart	Unity	405	0.5%
Steve Raskovy	Independent	396	0.5%

2001

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Tony Smith	Liberal	40,354	51.3%
David Mckenzie	Labor	26,211	33.3%
Tom Joyce	Australian Democrats	6,738	8.6%
Lorraine Leach	Greens	5,424	6.9%

2004

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Tony Smith	Liberal	45,050	56.3%
Tony Dib	Labor	23,762	29.7%
Joy Ringrose	Greens	6,302	7.9%
Andrew Rushton	FFP	3,243	4.1%
Jos Vandersman	Australian Democrats	1,002	1.3%
Daniel Chapman	Independent	531	0.7%
Jeremy Beck	CEC	167	0.2%

2007

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Tony Smith	Liberal	41,897	50.2%
Dympna Beard	Labor	29,949	35.9%
Salore Craig	Greens	6,112	7.3%
Daniel Harrison	Family First	3,501	4.2%
Tony Inglese	Australian Democrats	1,546	1.9%
George Moran	Christian Democratic Party	533	0.6%

2013

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Tony Smith	Liberal	43,538	49.2%
Cathy Farrell	Labor	24,651	27.8%
Steve Meacher	Greens	9,641	10.9%
Milton Wilde	Palmer United Party	4,413	5.0%
Gary Coombes	Family First	2,370	2.7%
Jeanette Mcrae	Independent	1,358	1.5%
Mike Brown	Independent	1,126	1.3%
Jeffrey Leake	Independent	986	1.1%
Paul Barbieri	Independent	446	0.5%

2016

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Tony Smith	Liberal	45,680	49.5%
Hovig Melkonian	Labor	26,165	28.4%
Elissa Sutherland	Greens	10,781	11.7%
Kristin Bacon	AJP	4,176	4.5%
Peter Charleton	Independent	2,878	3.1%
Angela Dorian	RUA	2,551	2.8%

2019

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Tony Smith	Liberal	45,168	45.2%
Bill Brindle	Labor	28,551	28.6%
Jenny Game-Lopata	Greens	10,919	10.9%
Ryan Clark	DHJP	3,309	3.3%
Travis Barker	AJP	3,105	3.1%
Wendy Starkey	United Australia Party	2,607	2.6%
Peter Charleton	Independent	2,302	2.3%
Ross Mcphee	Democratic Labor Party	2,246	2.2%
Antony Calabro	RUA	820	0.8%
Jayden O'connor	Independent	801	0.8%

Margin Over Time

Final (after-preferences) winning margin, percentage points, coloured by the winning party.

Trend

Casey has been contested at 19 federal elections on record since 1969. Winning parties over that span: Liberal, Labor.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Casey in the 2019 federal election?

Tony Smith (Liberal) won Casey in 2019 after preferences, with 54,551 votes (54.6%) to Bill Brindle's 45,277.

Which parties have won Casey since 1969?

Since 1969, Casey has been won by: Labor, Liberal.

What was the closest result in Casey?

The closest result on record for Casey was 1984, when Robert Halverson (Liberal) beat Peter Steedman by 661 votes (1.2 percentage points) after preferences.