Moreton — Australian Federal Election Results

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

Moreton was won by Graham Perrett (Labor) at the 2019 federal election, with a margin of 3,448 votes over Angela Owen after preferences. This page covers every federal election in Moreton from 1901 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), 1901–2019

Election	Winner	Party	Final Votes	Final Share	Runner-up	Margin
1901	James Wilkinson	Independent	2,569	55.0%	A W Darvall (Independent)	470 (10.1 pts)
1903	James Wilkinson	Independent	6,941	55.8%	George Harrison (NLU)	1,433 (11.5 pts)
1906	Hugh Sinclair	AS	10,055	62.5%	James Wilkinson (Labor)	4,017 (25.0 pts)
1910	Hugh Sinclair	Liberal	11,276	61.1%	Thomas Emmerson (Labor)	4,085 (22.1 pts)
1913	Hugh Sinclair	Liberal	16,967	60.7%	John Sherlock (Labor)	5,992 (21.4 pts)
1914	Hugh Sinclair	Liberal	15,811	57.3%	John Sherlock (Labor)	4,037 (14.6 pts)
1917	Hugh Sinclair	National	16,292	50.1%	Robert Butler (Labor)	58 (0.2 pts)
1919	Arnold Wienholt	People's/Nationalist	17,834	55.2%	William Heffernan (Labor)	3,343 (10.3 pts)
1922	Josiah Francis	National	19,730	59.5%	Horace Lee (Labor)	6,308 (19.0 pts)
1925	Josiah Francis	National	25,650	63.2%	Horace Lee (Labor)	10,743 (26.5 pts)
1928	Josiah Francis	National	-1	100.0%	None (None)	-1 (100.0 pts)
1929	Josiah Francis	National	27,716	60.1%	Robert Taylor (Labor)	9,345 (20.3 pts)
1931	Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	-1	100.0%	None (None)	-1 (100.0 pts)
1934	Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	27,951	57.2%	John Perrett (Labor)	7,065 (14.5 pts)
1937	Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	32,813	59.8%	John Mccoy (Labor)	10,792 (19.7 pts)
1940	Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	36,265	59.3%	Henry Herbert (Labor)	11,327 (18.5 pts)
1943	Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	32,681	54.9%	Patrick Mcinally (Labor)	5,877 (9.9 pts)
1946	Josiah Francis	Liberal	42,521	65.0%	John Perrett (Labor)	19,587 (29.9 pts)
1949	Josiah Francis	Liberal	25,125	62.7%	William Thieme (Labor)	10,210 (25.5 pts)
1951	Josiah Francis	Liberal	27,146	60.6%	Robert Mansfield (Labor)	9,485 (21.2 pts)
1954	Josiah Francis	Liberal	30,873	56.6%	Robert Mansfield (Labor)	7,216 (13.2 pts)
1955	James Killen	Liberal	20,908	52.7%	Allen Edwards (Labor)	2,120 (5.3 pts)
1958	Jim Killen	Liberal	23,460	58.4%	Bernard Ouston (Labor)	6,773 (16.9 pts)
1961	Jim Killen	Liberal	26,239	50.1%	John O'donnell (Labor)	130 (0.2 pts)
1963	Jim Killen	Liberal	31,893	55.0%	John O'donnell (Labor)	5,813 (10.0 pts)
1966	Jim Killen	Liberal	35,179	58.4%	Leonard Keogh (Labor)	10,087 (16.7 pts)
1969	Jim Killen	Liberal	26,944	53.3%	George Harvey (Labor)	3,353 (6.6 pts)
1972	Jim Killen	Liberal	28,074	54.5%	Joseph Mcdonald (Labor)	4,602 (8.9 pts)
1974	Jim Killen	Liberal	31,442	56.7%	William Forgan-Smith (Labor)	7,443 (13.4 pts)
1975	Jim Killen	Liberal	35,003	63.2%	Lewin Blazevich (Labor)	14,665 (26.5 pts)
1977	James Killen	Liberal	34,231	62.1%	Barbara Robson (Labor)	13,367 (24.3 pts)
1980	James Killen	Liberal	31,157	54.5%	Barbara Robson (Labor)	5,160 (9.0 pts)
1983	James Killen	Liberal	32,728	51.6%	Barbara Robson (Labor)	2,022 (3.2 pts)
1984	Donald Cameron	Liberal	32,381	53.3%	Michael Kinnane (Labor)	3,962 (6.5 pts)
1987	Donald Cameron	Liberal	31,518	50.7%	Garrie Gibson (Labor)	873 (1.4 pts)
1990	Garrie Gibson	Labor	32,996	52.3%	Donald Cameron (Liberal)	2,959 (4.7 pts)
1993	Garrie Gibson	Labor	38,424	51.7%	Margaret Steen (Liberal)	2,580 (3.5 pts)
1996	Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	42,997	55.1%	Garrie Gibson (Labor)	7,946 (10.2 pts)
1998	Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	39,554	50.6%	Kathleen Brookes (Labor)	899 (1.1 pts)
2001	Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	43,535	54.2%	Kathleen Brooks (Labor)	6,758 (8.4 pts)
2004	Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	42,694	54.2%	Graham Perrett (Labor)	6,576 (8.3 pts)
2007	Graham Perrett	Labor	44,055	54.7%	Gary Hardgrave (Liberal)	7,644 (9.5 pts)
2013	Graham Perrett	Labor	42,503	51.6%	Malcolm Cole (Liberal National (Qld))	2,557 (3.1 pts)
2016	Graham Perrett	Labor	45,892	54.0%	Nic Monsour (Liberal National (Qld))	6,836 (8.0 pts)
2019	Graham Perrett	Labor	47,045	51.9%	Angela Owen (Liberal National (Qld))	3,448 (3.8 pts)

First-Preference Result by Election

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

1901

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
James Wilkinson	Independent	2,569	39.4%
A W Darvall	Independent	2,099	32.2%
William Ryott Maughan	Independent	1,296	19.9%
E Kretschmer	Independent	301	4.6%
William Kellett	Independent	149	2.3%
R D Neilson	Independent	114	1.7%

1903

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
James Wilkinson	Independent	6,941	55.8%
George Harrison	NLU	5,508	44.2%

1906

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Hugh Sinclair	AS	10,055	62.5%
James Wilkinson	Labor	6,038	37.5%

1910

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Hugh Sinclair	Liberal	11,276	61.1%
Thomas Emmerson	Labor	7,191	38.9%

1913

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Hugh Sinclair	Liberal	16,967	60.7%
John Sherlock	Labor	10,975	39.3%

1914

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Hugh Sinclair	Liberal	15,811	57.3%
John Sherlock	Labor	11,774	42.7%

1917

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Hugh Sinclair	National	16,292	50.1%
Robert Butler	Labor	16,234	49.9%

1919

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Arnold Wienholt	People's/Nationalist	17,834	55.2%
William Heffernan	Labor	14,491	44.8%

1922

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	National	14,762	44.5%
Horace Lee	Labor	12,676	38.2%
Francis Brewer	Country Party	5,714	17.2%

1925

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	National	25,650	63.2%
Horace Lee	Labor	14,907	36.8%

1928

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	National	-1	100.0%

1929

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	National	27,716	60.1%
Robert Taylor	Labor	18,371	39.9%

1931

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	-1	100.0%

1934

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	27,951	51.2%
John Perrett	Labor	20,886	38.2%
William Worley	SC	5,794	10.6%

1937

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	32,813	55.3%
John Mccoy	Labor	22,021	37.1%
Henry Hogg	SC	4,508	7.6%

1940

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	36,265	59.3%
Henry Herbert	Labor	24,938	40.7%

1943

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	United Australia Party	32,681	50.0%
Patrick Mcinally	Labor	26,804	41.0%
Ralph Belcham	OPA	3,747	5.7%
John Cantwell	Country Party	2,093	3.2%

1946

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	Liberal	42,521	60.4%
John Perrett	Labor	22,934	32.6%
Charles Mccormack	Independent	4,985	7.1%

1949

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	Liberal	25,125	61.4%
William Thieme	Labor	14,915	36.4%
William Yarrow	Communist Party of Australia	904	2.2%

1951

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	Liberal	27,146	59.5%
Robert Mansfield	Labor	17,661	38.7%
William Yarrow	Communist Party of Australia	813	1.8%

1954

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Josiah Francis	Liberal	30,873	55.7%
Robert Mansfield	Labor	23,657	42.6%
William Yarrow	Communist Party of Australia	946	1.7%

1955

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
James Killen	Liberal	20,908	51.7%
Allen Edwards	Labor	18,788	46.5%
Max Julius	Communist Party of Australia	713	1.8%

1958

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Jim Killen	Liberal	23,460	50.9%
Bernard Ouston	Labor	16,687	36.2%
Robert Mansfield	Queensland Labor Party	4,652	10.1%
Max Julius	Communist Party of Australia	1,297	2.8%

1961

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
John O'donnell	Labor	25,123	48.0%
Jim Killen	Liberal	22,667	43.3%
Christian Hagen	Queensland Labor Party	3,882	7.4%
Max Julius	Communist Party of Australia	676	1.3%

1963

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Jim Killen	Liberal	28,574	49.3%
John O'donnell	Labor	25,609	44.2%
Eric Allingham	Democratic Labor Party	3,790	6.5%

1966

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Jim Killen	Liberal	35,179	54.4%
Leonard Keogh	Labor	25,092	38.8%
Miroslav Jansky	Democratic Labor Party	4,405	6.8%

1969

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Jim Killen	Liberal	24,273	48.0%
George Harvey	Labor	22,456	44.4%
Clarrissa Weedon	Democratic Labor Party	2,915	5.8%
Kitchener Farrell	Independent	891	1.8%

1972

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Jim Killen	Liberal	24,706	47.9%
Joseph Mcdonald	Labor	22,071	42.8%
Andrew Jackson	Democratic Labor Party	3,262	6.3%
Arthur Smith	AP	1,507	2.9%

1974

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Jim Killen	Liberal	31,442	55.5%
William Forgan-Smith	Labor	23,999	42.4%
Robert Mcclintock	AP	1,208	2.1%

1975

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Jim Killen	Liberal	35,003	61.9%
Lewin Blazevich	Labor	20,338	35.9%
William Appleton	Independent	929	1.6%
John Fitzgerald	Independent	323	0.6%

1977

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
James Killen	Liberal	34,231	56.0%
Barbara Robson	Labor	20,864	34.1%
Dirk Plooy	Australian Democrats	4,278	7.0%
Graham Bell	Independent	915	1.5%
Frederick Drake	Independent	887	1.4%

1980

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
James Killen	Liberal	31,157	50.7%
Barbara Robson	Labor	25,997	42.3%
Betty Whitworth	Australian Democrats	2,877	4.7%
Graham Bell	Independent	1,064	1.7%
Patrick Dixon	Independent	407	0.7%

1983

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
James Killen	Liberal	29,638	46.7%
Barbara Robson	Labor	28,854	45.5%
Leonard Fitzgerald	Australian Democrats	4,230	6.7%
Helen Jones	Independent	712	1.1%

1984

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Michael Kinnane	Labor	26,441	43.5%
Donald Cameron	Liberal	25,875	42.6%
Howard Baskerville	National	5,534	9.1%
Geoffrey Fawthrop	Australian Democrats	2,956	4.9%

1987

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Garrie Gibson	Labor	28,053	45.1%
Donald Cameron	Liberal	23,740	38.2%
Peter Freckleton	National	6,712	10.8%
Manfred Willinger	Australian Democrats	3,665	5.9%

1990

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Garrie Gibson	Labor	26,960	42.7%
Donald Cameron	Liberal	26,323	41.7%
Ken Davies	Australian Democrats	8,516	13.5%
Vince Cottrell	National	1,366	2.2%

1993

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Garrie Gibson	Labor	33,065	44.5%
Margaret Steen	Liberal	30,474	41.0%
Ian Holland	Australian Democrats	3,407	4.6%
D C Beattie-Burnett	Greens	3,050	4.1%
John Kearns	National	2,074	2.8%
Martin Ebsworth	Independent	671	0.9%
Rod Jeanneret	Independent	613	0.8%
Ira Smith	Independent	370	0.5%
Jim O'dempsey	Independent	370	0.5%
Shane Dean	Independent	233	0.3%

1996

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	39,268	50.2%
Garrie Gibson	Labor	28,886	36.9%
Kirsen Kirk	Australian Democrats	5,076	6.5%
Annette Wilson	Greens	2,572	3.3%
Keith Bremner	AAFI	735	0.9%
Wendy Dent	Independent	581	0.7%
Cameron Armstrong	Independent	547	0.7%
Shane Dean	Independent	234	0.3%
Norman Johnson	Independent	195	0.2%
Jacqueline Dhanji-Ayyar	Independent	153	0.2%

1998

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	33,724	43.1%
Kathleen Brookes	Labor	31,227	39.9%
Vanessa Stewart	One Nation	5,626	7.2%
Anthony Lee	Australian Democrats	4,046	5.2%
Lenore Taylor	Greens	2,627	3.4%
Jim Vote	Christian Democratic Party	959	1.2%

2001

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	39,148	48.7%
Kathleen Brooks	Labor	29,144	36.3%
Tracy Comans	Australian Democrats	4,525	5.6%
Lenore Taylor	Greens	3,677	4.6%
Barry Weedon	One Nation	2,433	3.0%
Andrew Lamb	Independent	1,385	1.7%

2004

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	38,708	49.1%
Graham Perrett	Labor	30,828	39.1%
Jane Williamson	Greens	4,182	5.3%
Terence Tam	FFP	2,142	2.7%
Frederika Steen	Australian Democrats	1,307	1.7%
Barry Weedon	One Nation	846	1.1%
Andrew Lamb	Independent	799	1.0%

2007

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Graham Perrett	Labor	37,908	47.1%
Gary Hardgrave	Liberal	33,921	42.2%
Emma Hine	Greens	5,548	6.9%
Steve Christian	Family First	1,113	1.4%
Emad Soliman	Australian Democrats	1,015	1.3%
Andrew Lamb	Independent	679	0.8%
Shane Brown	Independent	282	0.4%

2013

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Malcolm Cole	Liberal National (Qld)	34,824	42.2%
Graham Perrett	Labor	31,932	38.7%
Elissa Jenkins	Greens	8,234	10.0%
Jeremy Davey	Palmer United Party	4,147	5.0%
Carolyn Ferrando	Family First	1,250	1.5%
Chris Mallcott	Katter's Australian Party	1,070	1.3%
Hayden Muscat	Independent	481	0.6%
Bruce Fry	Independent	303	0.4%
Wayne Grunert	Independent	208	0.3%

2016

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Nic Monsour	Liberal National (Qld)	32,103	37.8%
Graham Perrett	Labor	31,342	36.9%
Kristen Lyons	Greens	10,812	12.7%
Des Soares	Nick Xenophon Team	4,072	4.8%
Andrew Cooper	Liberal Democrats	2,783	3.3%
Florian Heise	Family First	2,507	3.0%
Shan-Ju Lin	Katter's Australian Party	1,329	1.6%

2019

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Angela Owen	Liberal National (Qld)	37,011	40.8%
Graham Perrett	Labor	31,864	35.2%
Patsy O'brien	Greens	15,189	16.8%
William Lawrence	One Nation	3,002	3.3%
Jenny-Rebecca Brown	United Australia Party	2,015	2.2%
Aaron Nieass	FACNP	1,561	1.7%

Margin Over Time

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

Trend

Moreton has been contested at 45 federal elections on record since 1901. Winning parties over that span: Independent, AS, Liberal, National, People's/Nationalist, United Australia Party, Labor.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Moreton in the 2019 federal election?

Graham Perrett (Labor) won Moreton in 2019 after preferences, with 47,045 votes (51.9%) to Angela Owen's 43,597.

Which parties have won Moreton since 1901?

Since 1901, Moreton has been won by: AS, Independent, Labor, Liberal, National, People's/Nationalist, United Australia Party.

What was the closest result in Moreton?

The closest result on record for Moreton was 1917, when Hugh Sinclair (National) beat Robert Butler by 58 votes (0.2 percentage points) after preferences.