“These votes typically tend to favor the Greens, so we are anticipating the final count before confirming the outcome.”

It is believed that Greens senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Larissa Waters are also potential candidates for leadership, though neither has formally announced their intentions.

Greens voters deliver mixed results

However, these advances seemed short-lived as Brisbane’s Stephen Bates and Griffith’s Max Chandler-Mather acknowledged defeat in the wake of Labor’s overwhelming success.

In 2022, MPs Stephen Bates, Elizabeth Watson-Brown, and Max Chandler-Mather joined leader Adam Bandt in the lower house in what was dubbed a “Greenslide”. Source: AAP / Lukas Coch

Chandler-Mather acknowledged the party had fallen short when it came to lower house seats — which was “bitterly disappointing”.