Payments to each party authorised by the AEC.

Payments are calculated using an indexed sum per first preference vote. At the 2007 federal election, each first preference vote was worth 210.027 cents.

In order to obtain election funding a candidate must obtain at least 4% of the first preference vote.

At the 2004 federal election, the AEC paid out $41,926,158.91 in total to ten Parties and 15 independent candidates. The funding rate for the 2004 federal election was 194.397 cents per vote.

Doing it this was is obviously a lot easier then refunding people the amount they actually spend based on receipts and bills. If only the ATO operated this way, it make life a whole lot easier for all of us.

Anyway, here's the table

Name	Amount ($)
Parties
Australian Labor Party	20,922,325.51
Liberal Party of Australia	17,222,359.78
Australian Greens	4,148,615.11
National Party of Australia	3,076,663.58
Pauline’s United Australia Party	202,440.72
Northern Territory Country Liberal Party	160 719.91
Family First Party	133 965.51
Independent candidates
Nick Xenophon (Senate, South Australia)	296,672.70
Tony Windsor (New England)	105,217.86
Bob Katter (Kennedy)	64,919.66
Gavin Priestley (Calare)	37,979.71
Tim Horan (Parkes)	34,114.90
Caroline Hutchinson (Fisher)	21,141.74
Gavan O’Connor (Corio)	21,010.05
Noel Brunning (Forrest)	19,800.93
Aaron Buman (Newcastle)	12,655.91
Ben Quin (Lyons)	12,155.10
Cate Molloy (Wide Bay)	11,125.55
Ray McGhee (Boothby)	8,759.18
Rob Bryant (Murray)	8,727.25
Tim Williams (Macquarie)	8,270.34
Jamie Harrison (Lyne)	6,636.23
Total	46,536,277.23