Wayne Swan voted Canberra's most powerful politician

As Treasurer Wayne Swan delivers his fifth budget today, he can take some comfort from the fact it wasn't just Bernard Keane and The Power Index who voted him Canberra's most powerful politician - it was readers of The Power Index too.

That's the verdict from the online poll we conduct late last week, asking readers to nominate their own top 10 most powerful politicians in Canberra. We had around 100 readers vote in the poll, with the Member for Lilley coming out on top. Below are the rest of the results. Thanks for voting.

1. Wayne Swan

2. Julia Gillard

3. Tony Abbott

4. The Independents (Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor)

5. Christine Milne

6. Bill Shorten

7. Stephen Conroy

8. Anthony Albanese

9. Andrew Wilkie

10. Penny Wong