Australia First Party - Electoral Performance

Electoral Performance

• At the October 1998 federal election, Campbell lost his seat, polling only 22 percent of the vote in a seat he had represented for 18 years. The AFP failed to win significant support elsewhere, of which Campbell blames the rise of One Nation in a 2009 interview, stating that they "took 8.5% of the vote from me, which meant I lost the election."
• In June 2001, Campbell left the AFP in order to stand (unsuccessfully) as a One Nation senate candidate in Western Australia.
• The AFP did not contest the 2001 election.
• The AFP website says that the party fielded candidates in the 2004 local council elections in Sydney, Newcastle and Coffs Harbour. But the real extent of the AFP's organisation and membership is not known.
• In November 2005, AFP president Diane Teasdale stood in the elections for the Shepparton Council and received 1,373 first preference votes, representing 4.37% of valid votes cast.
• In November 2006, Adelaide AFP representative Bruce Preece was elected as Councillor for the St John's Wood Ward of the City of Prospect. Preece is the first AFP representative since Campbell to be elected into any level of government.
• AFP representative John Moffat contested the seat of Cronulla in southern Sydney during the 2007 New South Wales elections as an independent and received 968 votes, representing 2.8% of valid votes cast.
• In September 2008, the Party ran two candidates in New South Wales local government elections. In Sutherland Shire, the Party candidates received 867 votes. In Blacktown, the candidates received 1,229 votes.
• Australia First contested the 2010 federal election fielding four candidates for the House of Representatives and two candidates, Peter Schuback and Nick Maine, in the Senate. Australia First obtained 9,680 votes in Queensland for the Senate. The Australia First Party candidates for the lower house and their results were as follows: Terry Cooksley in Chifley, Tony Pettitt in Greenway, Mick Saunders in Lindsay and Alex Nowrick in Deakin. Cooksley received 943 votes (1.17%) and came last, Pettitt got 780 votes (0.98%) and placed 7th; Saunders scored a little higher with 975 votes (1.17%) in a smaller field, coming second last, while Norwick came last, polling 295 votes (0.37%).
• In October 2010, Australia First ran a candidate in the Sutherland Shire Council election. The AFP candidate, Matt Hodgson, obtained 932 votes or 4% of the total vote.
• At the 2011 NSW state election, the Party stood two candidates. Tony Robinson in Mulgoa received 1,459 votes or 4% of the vote. In Riverstone, Tony Pettitt received 509 votes or 1.2% of the vote.
• Australia First won their second council seat at the 2012 NSW local government elections. Maurice Girotto won a position in East Ward for Penrith Council.