Greens leader Adam Bandt will lose his seat in Melbourne to the Labor Party following a stretched-out vote count, Nine projects.
With almost 70 per cent of votes counted, ALP candidate and charity boss Sarah Witty holds 52.7 per cent of the vote on a two-party basis, equating to an 8.28 per cent swing towards Labor.
The Greens are yet to concede defeat in the seat.
Bandt is the second party leader to be voted out of parliament at this election, following Opposition Leader Peter Dutton being turfed from his seat of Dickson.
The former lawyer was the first to turn an electorate Green in the lower house when he won the inner-northern Melbourne seat from Labor in 2010.
He was successfully re-elected at the next four elections, winning the 2022 vote count with a 6.5 per cent margin.
Recent boundary changes meant the electorate lost left-leaning voters in the north to Wills, and gained typical Labor voters to the south, in South Yarra and Prahran.
The Greens are yet to reclaim a single one of the four lower house seats they won during the 2022 election’s “greenslide”.
Griffith MP Max Chandler-Mather conceded his Brisbane seat to Labor’s Renee Coffey, while fellow Greens MP Stephen Bates was ousted from the neighbouring seat of Brisbane.
The party’s presence in the House of Representatives now rests on the shoulders of Ryan MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown, who leads the vote count in Brisbane’s leafy western suburbs.
The party has a much more promising future in the Senate, with all upper-house members facing the vote re-elected, making for 11 representatives in total.
Despite Labor’s landslide win on Saturday, several seats across the country have gone down to the wire.
