Wills — Australian Federal Election Results

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

Wills was won by Peter Khalil (Labor) at the 2019 federal election, with a margin of 15,706 votes over Adam Pulford after preferences. This page covers every federal election in Wills from 1949 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), 1949–2019

Election	Winner	Party	Final Votes	Final Share	Runner-up	Margin
1949	William Bryson	Labor	25,162	58.8%	Allan Tyrer (Liberal)	7,504 (17.5 pts)
1951	William Bryson	Labor	26,682	61.8%	Baden Grafen (Liberal)	10,172 (23.6 pts)
1954	William Bryson	Labor	27,538	62.4%	Ian Ingram (Liberal)	10,943 (24.8 pts)
1955	Gordon Bryant	Labor	22,269	54.4%	Alfred Wall (Liberal)	3,582 (8.7 pts)
1958	Gordon Bryant	Labor	21,308	67.0%	Alfred Wall (Liberal)	10,810 (34.0 pts)
1961	Gordon Bryant	Labor	22,115	72.3%	William Pyatt (Liberal)	13,661 (44.7 pts)
1963	Gordon Bryant	Labor	20,197	65.2%	James Muntz (Liberal)	9,402 (30.3 pts)
1966	Gordon Bryant	Labor	18,455	63.3%	David Hutchinson (Liberal)	7,741 (26.5 pts)
1969	Gordon Bryant	Labor	25,839	63.2%	Peter Frankel (Liberal)	10,793 (26.4 pts)
1972	Gordon Bryant	Labor	30,410	68.5%	John Gray (Liberal)	16,395 (36.9 pts)
1974	Gordon Bryant	Labor	32,721	67.3%	John Bales (Liberal)	16,798 (34.5 pts)
1975	Gordon Bryant	Labor	32,382	64.8%	Howard Kiel (Liberal)	14,820 (29.7 pts)
1977	Gordon Bryant	Labor	38,456	68.6%	Thomas Burrowes (Liberal)	20,859 (37.2 pts)
1980	Bob Hawke	Labor	42,815	71.2%	Vincenzo D'aquino (Liberal)	25,478 (42.4 pts)
1983	Bob Hawke	Labor	45,571	75.5%	Mark Hoysted (Liberal)	30,798 (51.0 pts)
1984	Bob Hawke	Labor	40,986	70.3%	Victor Perton (Liberal)	23,634 (40.5 pts)
1987	Bob Hawke	Labor	40,519	69.9%	Olga Venables (Liberal)	23,087 (39.8 pts)
1990	Bob Hawke	Labor	38,708	57.9%	John Delacretaz (Liberal)	10,592 (15.9 pts)
1993	Philip Cleary	Independent	36,816	52.4%	Bill Kardamitsis (Labor)	3,404 (4.8 pts)
1996	Kelvin Thompson	Labor	43,394	55.8%	Philip Cleary (Independent)	8,977 (11.5 pts)
1998	Kelvin Thompson	Labor	56,033	71.0%	David Curry (Liberal)	33,099 (41.9 pts)
2001	Kelvin Thompson	Labor	54,542	69.4%	Vytautas Valasinavicius (Liberal)	30,515 (38.8 pts)
2004	Kelvin Thomson	Labor	54,893	66.9%	Blair Hamilton (Liberal)	27,738 (33.8 pts)
2007	Kelvin Thomson	Labor	62,382	72.4%	Claude Tomisich (Liberal)	38,597 (44.8 pts)
2013	Kelvin Thomson	Labor	59,118	65.2%	Tim Read (Greens)	27,568 (30.4 pts)
2016	Peter Khalil	Labor	51,646	54.9%	Samantha Ratnam (Greens)	9,184 (9.8 pts)
2019	Peter Khalil	Labor	55,898	58.2%	Adam Pulford (Greens)	15,706 (16.3 pts)

First-Preference Result by Election

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

1949

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
William Bryson	Labor	18,918	44.2%
Allan Tyrer	Liberal	15,101	35.3%
Doris Blackburn	Independent	8,801	20.6%

1951

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
William Bryson	Labor	21,136	48.9%
Baden Grafen	Liberal	14,461	33.5%
Doris Blackburn	Independent	7,595	17.6%

1954

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
William Bryson	Labor	27,538	62.4%
Ian Ingram	Liberal	16,595	37.6%

1955

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	19,363	47.3%
Alfred Wall	Liberal	11,478	28.0%
William Bryson	Labor (Anti-Communist)	10,115	24.7%

1958

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	21,308	53.7%
Alfred Wall	Liberal	10,498	26.5%
William Bryson	Democratic Labor Party	7,881	19.9%

1961

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	22,115	58.0%
William Pyatt	Liberal	8,454	22.2%
William Bryson	Democratic Labor Party	7,553	19.8%

1963

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	20,197	54.1%
James Muntz	Liberal	10,795	28.9%
John Hardy	Democratic Labor Party	6,315	16.9%

1966

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	18,455	53.6%
David Hutchinson	Liberal	10,714	31.1%
John Flint	Democratic Labor Party	5,239	15.2%

1969

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	25,839	50.9%
Peter Frankel	Liberal	15,046	29.6%
John Flint	Democratic Labor Party	6,021	11.9%
John Bennett	Independent	3,367	6.6%
Milan Breier	Independent	280	0.6%
Geraldine Phelan	Independent	251	0.5%

1972

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	30,410	60.7%
John Gray	Liberal	14,015	28.0%
John Flint	Democratic Labor Party	5,650	11.3%

1974

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	32,721	61.3%
John Bales	Liberal	15,923	29.8%
John Flint	Democratic Labor Party	3,430	6.4%
Stanley Bell	AP	944	1.8%
Bruce Drinkwater	Independent	385	0.7%

1975

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	32,382	60.2%
Howard Kiel	Liberal	17,562	32.7%
John Flint	Democratic Labor Party	3,819	7.1%

1977

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Gordon Bryant	Labor	38,456	57.6%
Thomas Burrowes	Liberal	17,597	26.4%
Vernon Weaver	Australian Democrats	5,703	8.5%
John Flint	Democratic Labor Party	4,964	7.4%

1980

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Bob Hawke	Labor	42,815	65.1%
Vincenzo D'aquino	Liberal	17,337	26.4%
Kenneth Goss	Australian Democrats	2,407	3.7%
Thomas Stewart	Democratic Labor Party	1,256	1.9%
Solomon Salby	Independent	677	1.0%
Michael Head	Independent	490	0.7%
Martin Newell	Independent	410	0.6%
Philip Herington	Communist Party of Australia	368	0.6%

1983

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Bob Hawke	Labor	45,571	67.6%
Mark Hoysted	Liberal	14,773	21.9%
John Hallam	Australian Democrats	4,225	6.3%
Martin Mantell	Independent	1,287	1.9%
Michael Verberne	Democratic Labor Party	1,145	1.7%
Solomon Salby	Independent	206	0.3%
Cecil Murgatroyd	Independent	174	0.3%

1984

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Bob Hawke	Labor	38,846	66.5%
Victor Perton	Liberal	13,649	23.4%
Peter Allan	Australian Democrats	2,350	4.0%
Mark Ferguson	Independent	1,360	2.3%
Lance Hutchinson	Independent	1,056	1.8%
Gloria Brook	Democratic Labor Party	856	1.5%
Martin Mantell	Independent	242	0.4%
Glen Mann	Independent	81	0.1%

1987

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Bob Hawke	Labor	35,849	61.8%
Olga Venables	Liberal	15,318	26.4%
Ken Eley	Australian Democrats	3,729	6.4%
Fast Bucks	Independent	1,400	2.4%
Lyn Teather	Independent	1,092	1.9%
Ian Sykes	Independent	650	1.1%

1990

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Bob Hawke	Labor	32,596	48.7%
John Delacretaz	Liberal	23,088	34.5%
Philip Mendes	Australian Democrats	6,413	9.6%
Mark Beshara	Democratic Labor Party	2,564	3.8%
Ian Sykes	Independent	986	1.5%
Lali Chelliah	Independent	678	1.0%
Cecil Murgatroyd	Independent	319	0.5%
Marc Aussie-Stone	Independent	316	0.5%

1993

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Bill Kardamitsis	Labor	29,499	41.9%
Philip Cleary	Independent	20,721	29.4%
Jack Minas	Liberal	17,386	24.7%
Robert Stone	Australian Democrats	1,474	2.1%
Katheryne Savage	Independent	652	0.9%
Ken Mantell	Independent	271	0.4%
Cecil Murgatroyd	Independent	219	0.3%
John Price	Independent	212	0.3%

1996

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Kelvin Thompson	Labor	39,014	50.0%
Philip Cleary	Independent	17,747	22.7%
Jack Minas	Liberal	16,576	21.2%
Robert Stone	Australian Democrats	2,811	3.6%
Sharon Keppel	Independent	1,399	1.8%
Martin Richardson	Independent	316	0.4%
Craig Isherwood	Independent	196	0.3%

1998

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Kelvin Thompson	Labor	50,507	64.0%
David Curry	Liberal	20,280	25.7%
Robert Stone	Australian Democrats	4,507	5.7%
Bill Deller	Independent	1,875	2.4%
Randa Abdel-Fattah	Unity	1,363	1.7%
Andrew Fox	Independent	435	0.6%

2001

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Kelvin Thompson	Labor	44,019	56.0%
Vytautas Valasinavicius	Liberal	21,030	26.8%
Richard Di Natale	Greens	6,082	7.7%
Rob Stone	Australian Democrats	5,036	6.4%
Craig Isherwood	Independent	1,368	1.7%
David Glanz	Independent	1,036	1.3%

2004

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Kelvin Thomson	Labor	44,158	53.8%
Blair Hamilton	Liberal	23,549	28.7%
Toby Archer	Greens	10,663	13.0%
Deborah Suraci	FFP	1,275	1.6%
Robert Stone	Australian Democrats	1,163	1.4%
David Glanz	Socialist Alliance	867	1.1%
Noelene Isherwood	CEC	373	0.5%

2007

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Kelvin Thomson	Labor	49,050	56.9%
Claude Tomisich	Liberal	21,166	24.5%
David Collis	Greens	11,912	13.8%
Edward Clarke	Australian Democrats	2,005	2.3%
Ihab Kelada	Family First	1,233	1.4%
Zane Alcorn	Independent	624	0.7%
Craig Isherwood	Independent	227	0.3%

2013

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Kelvin Thomson	Labor	40,931	45.1%
Shilpa Hegde	Liberal	20,710	22.8%
Tim Read	Greens	20,157	22.2%
Adrian Trajstman	ASP	2,363	2.6%
Anne Murray-Dufoulon	Palmer United Party	2,158	2.4%
Dean O'callaghan	Independent	2,040	2.2%
Concetta Giglia	Family First	1,285	1.4%
Margarita Windisch	Independent	1,024	1.1%

2016

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Peter Khalil	Labor	35,431	37.6%
Samantha Ratnam	Greens	29,017	30.8%
Kyung Hong	Liberal	20,634	21.9%
Tristram Chellew	ASP	2,608	2.8%
Francesco Timpano	Independent	1,832	1.9%
Camille Sydow	AJP	1,578	1.7%
Ash Blackwell	Independent	1,287	1.4%
Dougal Gillman	Independent	778	0.8%
Zane Alcorn	Independent	648	0.7%
Will Fulgenzi	Independent	295	0.3%

2019

Candidate	Party	First-Pref. Votes	Share
Peter Khalil	Labor	42,355	44.1%
Adam Pulford	Greens	25,575	26.6%
Peter Killin	Liberal	17,241	17.9%
Sue Bolton	Independent	4,344	4.5%
Chris Miles	AJP	3,596	3.7%
Manju Venkat	United Australia Party	2,979	3.1%

Margin Over Time

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

Trend

Wills has been contested at 27 federal elections on record since 1949. Winning parties over that span: Labor, Independent.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Wills in the 2019 federal election?

Peter Khalil (Labor) won Wills in 2019 after preferences, with 55,898 votes (58.2%) to Adam Pulford's 40,192.

Which parties have won Wills since 1949?

Since 1949, Wills has been won by: Independent, Labor.

What was the closest result in Wills?

The closest result on record for Wills was 1993, when Philip Cleary (Independent) beat Bill Kardamitsis by 3,404 votes (4.8 percentage points) after preferences.