Dustin Martin’s 2017 Brownlow Medal win has catapulted him into fourth place on Richmond’s list for the most league football career votes in the game’s most prestigious individual award.

The brilliant midfielder polled a record 36 votes in last night’s count, taking his overall Brownlow tally to 134 from 177 games in eight seasons.

Only Kevin Bartlett (160), Matthew Richardson (140) and Francis Bourke (139) are ahead of Martin on Tigerland’s all-time Brownlow votes list.  

And those numbers for Bartlett and Bourke are inflated due to the fact that during the 1976-77 seasons, two sets of 3-2-1 Brownlow votes were awarded for each game, following the introduction of two field umpires per match.

The adjusted Brownlow votes from those two seasons have Bartlett on 136.5 votes and Bourke on 112.5 votes.

Martin has now moved into sixth place on the list of current AFL players’ total career Brownlow votes, behind the leader, Gary Ablett, 234, Joel Selwood, 181, Patrick Dangerfield, 165, Scott Pendlebury 165, and Lance Franklin, 155.

Also from a Richmond Brownlow historical perspective, Martin has become just the second Tiger, alongside legendary ruckman Roy Wright, to poll 20 votes or more in a year on three occasions.

Wright polled 21 votes when he won his first Brownlow in 1952, 29 to take out his second Brownlow in 1954, and 20 in 1957.

Martin has polled 20-plus Brownlow votes over the past three years – 21 votes in 2015, 25 in 2016 and 36 in 2017.

And Martin broke the Richmond record for polling Brownlow votes in the most number of games in a season, with 14.

Dusty’s career Brownlow voting details

2010 – 6 votes

2011 – 12 votes

2012 – 5 votes

2013 – 16 votes

2014 – 13 votes

2015 – 21 votes

2016 – 25 votes

2017 – 36 votes