Greens leader Adam Bandt appears set to lose his seat of Melbourne and become the second party chief tossed in the wake of Labor’s monster election win.

7NEWS has projected the seat will land with Labor’s Sarah Witty.

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Sky News and the ABC have also called it for Labor.

Bandt has held the seat of Melbourne since 2010.

He served as deputy leader across two stints before taking the top job in early 2020.

Bandt’s departure will mean the Greens will need to elect a new leader.

The Greens were all but wiped out in the lower house, also losing two seats in Brisbane.

Elizabeth Watson-Brown is expected to retain the Queensland seat of Ryan to be the sole Greens MP in the House of Representatives.

The party’s primary vote largely held up and it will retain the balance of power in the Senate.

It comes after Liberal leader Peter Dutton lost not only the election but his seat of Dickson, in Brisbane’s outer northwest.

The seat was claimed by Labor’s Ali France.

Dutton returned to Canberra on Wednesday afternoon but was tight-lipped about who would replace him, saying it was best to “maintain a graceful silence”.

Bandt said earlier this week that the Greens bled votes from people swinging to Labor to prevent Dutton becoming prime minister or cast their ballot strategically for independents in winnable contests.

“When there is a big shift from Liberal to Labor, it has flow-through consequences,” he said on Monday.

He pushed back when questioned if the Greens centred too much of their campaign on Australia’s response to the Israel-Gaza war instead of core issues such as climate change.

“We were the only ones talking about real action on climate change and calling on the government to stop opening new coal and gas mines,” he said.

“(On Gaza) ... we wanted to see an end to the invasion and an end to the occupation and ... an end to the bombs being dropped on children.”

- With AAP