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Stirling Liberal MP Michael Keenan comfortably held onto his seat at last weekend’s federal election, with 51.2 per cent of the primary vote.

Now he has to wait to see whether he’s kept his spot on Tony Abbott’s front bench. The real estate scion enjoyed a 4.4 per cent swing to take his final margin to 9.8 per cent, trouncing Labor’s Dan Caddy. Labor’s primary vote in the seat it once held slumped to just 28.8 per cent.

Mr Keenan, 41, has held the once-swinging seat since 2004 after wresting it from Labor’s Jan MacFarlane.

The Greens’ Tim Clifford scored 11 per cent of the vote, a 1.9 per cent drop on the 2010 result. The Palmer United Party performed strongly on its first outing, taking 4 per cent.