Luke Parker has jumped to eighth position on the all-time Sydney Swans Brownlow Medal vote list after heading the club’s 2019 count on Monday night.

Parker’s 16 votes, which has him now placed equal 16^th on the overall leaderboard, jumped his career tally to 94 as he went past Brett Kirk (81), Peter Bedford (81.5), Jude Bolton (89) and Barry Round (90).

He also topped Lance Franklin’s Sydney vote tally, which increased by three to 88.

Parker now trails only Bob Skilton (180), Adam Goodes (163), Josh Kennedy (134), Ron Clegg (121), J. Herbie Matthews (117), Dan Hannebery (106) and Paul Kelly (103) on the Swans all-time vote list.

It was his fifth double-figure haul and his fourth in a row after he polled 12 votes in 2014, a best of 26 when he finished second to Geelong’s Patrick Dangerfield in 2016, 16 in 2017 and 10 in 2018.

In his first season as a co-captain of the Swans alongside Josh Kennedy and Dane Rampe which saw him finish third in the 2019 Bob Skilton Medal, Parker polled a perfect three votes on three occasions, including in the Round 8 win over Essendon, and the back-to-back Round 12-13 wins over Hawthorn and Gold Coast.

The Swans polled seven “threes” in their 8-14 win/loss season, with Jake Lloyd picking up the only maximum votes in a loss – in the Round 18 loss to Fremantle.

The other “threes” went to Isaac Heeney in the Round 3 win over Carlton for 26 possessions and four goals in the Round 3 win over Carlton, Tom Papley for 27 possessions and five goals in the Round 12 win over West Coast, Ollie Florent for 28 possessions in the Round 22 win over Melbourne, and Kennedy for an inspirational 32 possessions, two goals and 11 clearances in the Round 23 win over St Kilda which ensured the retiring Jarrad McVeigh, Kieren Jack, Heath Grundy and Nick Smith went out on a high note.

The only Swans win in which the club did not receive the three votes was the Round 9 win over North Melbourne, when North skipper Jack Ziebell took top votes with 35 possessions and eight tackles.

Sydney midfielder George Hewett, runner-up in the Skilton Medal, received the maximum 10 votes from the coaches in that game and did not receive a vote from the umpires.

Lively forward Papley received his first career vote in Round 9 when he had 15 possessions and kicked four goals, and followed up with his three votes in Round 12.

Similarly, Hewett’s two votes in the medal came in the Round 7 loss to Brisbane when Lions skipper Dayne Zorko picked up the three votes and the coaches preferred Brisbane’s Zorko (nine), Hugh McCluggage (nine), Stefan Martin (three), Charlie Cameron (three) and Tom Papley (five) to Hewett (one).

In the Round 2 loss to Adelaide, Kennedy (36 possessions and eight clearances) received 10 votes from the coaches but the umpires gave three votes to Adelaide co-captain Rory Sloane (23 possessions). Kennedy received two votes.

And in the Round 10 loss to Carlton, Sydney’s Sam Reid received 10 votes from the coaches for his six goals but only two votes from the umpires as Brodie Grundy (18 possessions and 64 hit-outs) took the three.

Jordan Dawson, ninth in the Skilton Medal in a real breakout year, polled his first Brownlow vote when he had 28 possessions in the Round 15 win over Gold Coast.

While Club Champion Dane Rampe received plenty of votes from the coaches during the season, he didn’t catch the eye of the umpires, not adding to his career tally of five votes.

Callum Mills and Aliir Aliir, fifth and eighth respectively in the Skilton Medal, also missed out in the Brownlow.

Parker became just the 16^th Swans player to top the club vote in the Brownlow Medal count two times.

Bob Skilton, 10 times the club’s leading vote-getter, leads this list. 

Note: Career votes listed here are adjusted votes where applicable in 1976-77 when two umpires awarded votes separately. Total votes awarded in those years are halved for comparison purposes.