Monique Ryan Kooyong, Australia election results LIVE: Adam Bandt officially concedes defeat as he gives three excuses for why he lost the election – and NONE of them are HIM

Greens Leader Adam Bandt has officially conceded, blaming everyone but himself – attributing his loss to the redistribution of his Melbourne seat, a voter backlash against Peter Dutton and preferences from One Nation and Liberal voters.

‘A short time ago I called the Labor candidate for Melbourne, Sarah Witty, to concede, congratulate her and wish her all the best as the next Member for Melbourne,’ he told reporters at 2.15pm.

‘The Greens got the highest vote in Melbourne, but One Nation and Liberal preferences will get Labor over the line.

‘To win in Melbourne we needed to overcome Liberal, Labor and One Nation combined, and it’s an Everest we’ve climbed a few times now, but this time we fell just short.’

‘I want to thank the Melbourne community for regularly giving me the highest vote, including this election, and to thank you for the last 15 years and the chance to do some amazing things together.’

Bandt said that there was a number of seats where the Greens were second, creating a new colour of political persuasion.

‘Mix red and blue together and you get purple,’ he said.

‘There’s now a swathe of seats where Labor MPs owe their political life to Liberal preferences and the greens are there in those seats as the real opposition to the two-party system.’

He claimed that was the fate of his own seat of Melbourne, which had been redistributed to include many more liberal voters.

He also claimed there was a ‘huge riptide from Liberal to Labor’ over the five-week election campaign, where Dutton was damaged by his policy alignment with Donald Trump.

‘People in Melbourne hate Peter Dutton and with a very good reason. They have seen his brand of toxic racism on display for many years, they have seen his time as Immigration Minister, they seen him make comments about Melbourne and like me, many of them wanted him as far away from power as possible,’ Bandt added.

‘Despite us making it very clear that we shared their position, my initial take is that some votes leaked away from us as people saw Labor is the best option to stop Dutton.’

He did not address any of his own mistakes in leading the party during his 25 minute statement.

Bandt said he was ‘really proud of what I have achieved as leader of the Greens’.

‘We have achieved the highest vote in Greens history,’ he said.

‘I leave with the vote for the Greens higher than when I started and the biggest representation ever in parliament.’

Labor’s Witty has ousted him from the seat he’s held since 2010.

He told reporters he wouldn’t be taking questions.

Two senior ministers are expected to lose their positions in a new-look lineup as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warns Labor MPs against focusing too heavily on themselves.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is set to be axed by his Victorian right faction colleagues in favour of Sam Rae, a key ally of Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles.

Industry Minister Ed Husic is also on the chopping block to rebalance the ledger between Victoria and NSW.

Labor’s ministry and cabinet are carved up between the states and the left and right factions, based on their proportion of seats.

The more progressive left, from which Mr Albanese hails, has edged ahead of the right after the election, with more of its candidates winning seats.

But the ministry quota system has sparked an internal fight between Victorians and their NSW counterparts as the former want an extra seat at the table.

New blood in the ministry will likely include Tim Ayres from NSW and Ged Kearney and Daniel Mulino from Victoria.

Anthony Albanese has hinted there will be some new faces on his frontbench.

The landslide election victory resulted in a boost in numbers to the Labor left faction, which now outnumbers those on the Right for the first time.

And the Prime Minister has signalled there could be some major changes, telling Sky News that ‘no individual is greater than the collective’.

‘We have a process and we’ll work it through,’ the PM said.

‘The important thing is… for most of the 125 years since Federation, we’ve sat at the other end of the corridor in the old place, in the opposition party room.

‘Government brings with it responsibility, and no individual is greater than the collective — that includes myself.’

The Labor Party caucus will meet on Friday to thrash out the new cabinet.

Our Political Editor Peter Van Onselen explains how the factional left and right are set to go to war divvying up the spoils of victory below:

Monique Ryan is set to win her way back into parliament for a second term, after an Australian Electoral Commission blunder logging votes completely shifted the expected outcome in Kooyong.

Before the AEC mistake the Liberals were on track to mount a stunning comeback and knock the accident prone teal out of federal politics.

With the error now fixed, coupled with the trends we are seeing in postal votes and expected flows from absentee votes thereafter, Ryan will win Kooyong and serve another three years.

Postal voting in Kooyong is now almost finished, and should wrap up today, and Amelia Hamer and the Liberal Party are now too far behind to pull back Ryan’s lead, meaning that once the count is completed the Teal MP will survive despite looking likely to lose prior to the AEC blunder being revealed.

Hamer currently trails Ryan by more than 700 votes.

That figure will tighten, but not by enough for Hamer to overhaul Ryan’s advantage.

Short of another AEC mistake, Kooyong is a seat we can call for the teals.

Don’t be fooled by the Greens poor performance in the lower house where its leader Adam Bandt lost his seat.

Adam Bandt’s humiliating defeat will send shockwaves through the Greens as the party is forced to pick a new leader.

Bandt officially lost his seat of Melbourne, which he has held since 2010, to Labor’s Sarah Witty on Wednesday afternoon.

This is despite a Greens’ press release claiming on Saturday night that he ‘expects the count to elect him in Melbourne’.

So where did it all go so wrong for the Greens leader?

As much as his critics – and there are many – would hope it was all down to voters taking against him personally, the main reason he lost took place long before any votes were cast.

The boundaries of Bandt’s Melbourne seat were redistributed last year.

This redrawing of the electoral map meant that the Greens leader lost several suburbs in the inner north, where he was popular, while also absorbing more Liberal-supporting areas.

But Bandt does also shoulder a lot of the blame for positioning the Greens so obviously in opposition to Labor.

Renee Coffey, the Labor challenger who ousted Max Chandler-Mather in Griffith, said that voters were most concerned with cost of living and housing issues.

But the Greens were seen as a barrier to progress after they joined forces with the Liberals to block some of Labor’s housing reforms.

‘(The other seat) is fundamentally is a progressive electorate and people were wanting to see real change and progress, so I think there was some disappointment with some of the blocking that went on and this idea of protest,’ she told the ABC.

Kos Samaras , a former Victorian Labor strategist and Redbridge Group director, said the Greens had turned into a ‘movement fuelling civil unrest and disruption’.

‘The party clearly recognised this too late after a string of poor results at state, territory, and local government elections,’ he added.

‘By the time they adjusted course, the damage was done. Their leader is now gone. I never imagined that I would see the Greens lose Melbourne in my lifetime.’

Foreign Minister Penny Wong had a similar analysis, telling Channel Nine that ‘Australians rejected the politics of conflict and the politics of grievance’.

‘Unfortunately Adam Bandt in some ways is quite like Peter Dutton,’ Senator Wong added.

And she’s not wrong, given Bandt has also suffered the ignominy of losing his own seat.

Mehreen Faruqi, the current Greens deputy leader and frontrunner to take over the minor party, has refused to concede that her boss Adam Bandt is to be booted out of parliament.

Most major news organisations have now declared that Bandt will lose his Melbourne seat, which he has held since 2010.

But Senator Faruqi said the count was still continuing.

‘Adam is still leader,’ she told the ABC.

‘As many as 15,000 absentee and declaration votes have yet to be sorted and counted. And often those votes have swung towards the Greens so we are waiting for all those votes to be counted to declare the result.’

Meanwhile, victorious Liberal candidate Tim Wilson in the seat of Goldstein could not resist taking a swipe at Bandt.

Sharing a news article reporting that he was on track to lose his seat, Wilson wrote: ‘I didn’t think this day could get any better, and yet – here we are!’

Anthony Albanese’s arch nemesis Max Chandler-Mather has taken another brutal swipe at the Prime Minister after their war of words erupted.

Keith Wolahan has lost his seat of Menzies in Victoria.

The former army officer (pictured below) was seen as a Liberal leader of the future, and also one of the few remaining city MPs amongst the conservatives.

It looked like he was certain to lose on Saturday night but strong postal voting flows suggested he could just maybe fight back and survive.

Not anymore, he’s too far behind given the postal trends and wouldn’t be able to stay in front even if he clawed back because absentee votes always favour Labor in his electorate.

It’s a big generational loss for the Liberals in what was already a devastating defeat nationally.