Billionaire Clive Palmer has pocketed $2.2 million in taxpayer dollars after his political party attracted nearly a million votes at the September 7 federal election.
The payment was part of an initial $56.3 million distribution to 12 political parties and nine independents by the Australian Electoral Commission.
The Liberal Party received $23.1 million in funding while Labor pocketed $20.1 million.
The Australian Greens ranked third with $5.3 million followed by the National Party on $3 million.
The Palmer United Party will receive $2.2 million.
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The Liberal Democratic Party benefited from being first on the NSW Senate ballot paper and its name being confused with the Liberal Party.
It had David Leyonhjelm elected to the Senate and will receive $1.03 million in public money.
The Nick Xenophon Group generated $636,127 while Queensland independent Bob Katter's Katter Australian Party only netted $166,711.
The one-issue Bullet Train for Australia Party earned $24,283 for its campaign coffers.
Cathy McGowan, who unseated would-be cabinet minister Sophie Mirabella in the Victorian seat of Indi, topped the independent funding tally with $68,381 ahead of re-elected Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie ($60,802).
Serial political candidate Pauline Hanson, former speaker Peter Slipper and controversial independent MP Craig Thomson missed out on any funding because they polled less than the minimum threshold of four per cent.
Former Australian cricketer Nathan Bracken's failed attempt to win Mr Thomson's seat of Dobell generated him $17,439.
The funding rate for the 2013 federal election was 248.8 cents per House of Representatives and Senate vote.
Australian Greens senator Lee Rhiannon called for electoral funding reform, in particular restrictions on the amount of private money that can be used in elections and caps on election campaign expenditure.
