The leader of Australia's third largest political party, the Green Party, admitted his seat in Melbourne after several days of election voting crimes.

Adam Bandt, who has safely owned his Melbourne location since 2010, told reporters Thursday afternoon that he called labor candidate Sarah Witty to congratulate her on her victory.

Australia's left-wing Labor won Saturday's federal election through a landslide, which led the conservative Liberal coalition to defeat the left-leaning Greens.

The Greens won the highest vote in Melbourne, but Bante said the main reason for their losses was a preference for liberals and far-right National Party.

Australia uses a discounted voting system where candidates are ranked in order of priority.

If no candidate wins more than 50% of the votes in the first statistical office, the votes of the most popular candidate are reassigned and the process is repeated until someone gets a majority.

"To win in Melbourne we need to overcome the sum of liberals, labor and a country, which is the Mount Everest we have climbed a few times now, but this time we've fallen short."

He added: "We're very close, but we can't get there completely."

The band also sees the so-called Trump effect as a “key defining feature of the election” – the league’s prime minister candidate Peter Dutton is often compared to the U.S. president, who rejects it, but it gets stuck.

This created a five-week "Riptide," Band said, which left the vote away from liberals and Dutton and leaned towards labor.

He added: "Rip feet from liberals to labor force have also had an impact on us."

“People in Melbourne hate Peter Dutton, for good reason. They have seen his toxic racist brand for years… Like me, many people want him as far as possible.

“My initial view was that some votes were leaked from us because people saw Labour as the best option to stop Dutton.”

Like Bandt, Dutton lost his seat in the election, adding to the sensation of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the polls.

The band, which has been the Green Party leader since 2020, said he would like to thank the Melbourne community for “regularly giving me the highest votes in elections, including this election, and thank you for the past 15 years and the opportunity to do something amazing together”.

He under his leadership lists a range of achievements the Green Party has achieved under his leadership, including the party’s key role in marriage equality of citizens, the first parliamentary referendum held by the first countries and the advancement of “world-leading climate legislation.”

"Fighting against the climate crisis is the reason I participate in politics, and I want to thank everyone in Melbourne for helping us make a difference," Band said.

He also thanked his party colleagues and noted that he had “a higher vote on the green than I did when I started and we were the biggest representative of the parliament ever”.

Bandt thanks to the African and Muslim communities in Melbourne, and “everyone who has the courage to oppose the invasion of Gaza and peace in Palestine said”.

Finally, he thanked his wife Claudia.

"Not only can I do this without her, but we've done it together."

Bandt gave the media some "free advice" during his concluding speech.

“We are in a state of climate crisis,” he said. “I really hope the media stops reporting on climate as a political issue and starts thinking about it, as if our country is invaded. We should treat the climate crisis as if there was a war.”

"Please, please start taking the climate crisis seriously and hold the government and any future government accountable."