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The 2023 Brownlow Medal was the 96th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the
best and fairest In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
player during the
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(AFL) home-and-away season. It was won by
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for the second time, with 31 votes; Neale had previously won the medal in
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. The count took place on Monday 25 September, five days before the
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Leading vote-getters


Voting procedure

The four field
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(those umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes, and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and they are read and tallied on the evening.


References

2023 Australian Football League season
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