Editing Australian Greens (section)

==== 2019 election ====
At the [[2019 Australian federal election|2019 federal election]], the Australian Greens received a primary vote of 10.4% in the House of Representatives, with a federal swing of +0.2%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2019/results/party-totals|title=Party Totals |work=ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)|date=18 May 2019 |access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> The party's highest vote was captured in the Australian Capital Territory (16.8%), followed by Victoria (11.9%), Western Australia (11.6%), Queensland (10.3%), Northern Territory (10.2%), Tasmania (10.1%), South Australia (9.6%) and New South Wales (8.7%). The party retained the federal electorate of [[Division of Melbourne|Melbourne]] with [[Adam Bandt]] sitting at a 71.8% two-party preferred vote.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2019/results|title=Federal Election 2019 Results |work=ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)|date=18 May 2019 |access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref>

In the Senate, the Greens received favourable swings in South Australia (+5.03%), Queensland (+3.12%), the Australian Capital Territory (+1.61%), Western Australia (+1.48%), Tasmania (+1.41%) and New South Wales (+1.32%). Small swings against the Greens in the Senate were observed in only Victoria (−0.25%) and the Northern Territory (−0.54%).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal/2019/results/senate|title=Senate Results |work=ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)|date=18 May 2019 |access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> All six Greens senators up for re-election retained their seats, including Senators [[Mehreen Faruqi]], [[Janet Rice]], [[Larissa Waters]], [[Sarah Hanson-Young]], [[Jordon Steele-John]] and [[Nick McKim]].

Three key seats were targeted by the Greens in Victoria, including [[Division of Kooyong|Kooyong]], [[Division of Higgins|Higgins]] and [[Division of Macnamara|Macnamara]].<ref name="Towell-2019">{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/greens-swing-campaign-from-hipster-north-for-yuppie-south-20190408-p51c0t.html|title=Greens swing campaign from hipster north for yuppie south|last=Towell|first=Noel|date=8 April 2019|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=5 July 2019}}</ref> Prominent barrister [[Julian Burnside]], who stood for Kooyong, came close to unseating treasurer and deputy Liberal leader [[Josh Frydenberg]], falling short by 5.7% in the two-party preferred vote.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/13/greens-within-striking-distance-in-josh-frydenbergs-seat-of-kooyong-poll-finds|title=Greens within striking distance in Josh Frydenberg's seat of Kooyong, poll finds|first=Katharine |last=Murphy |date=12 May 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=5 July 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Greens candidate [[Jason Ball (activist)|Jason Ball]], for the [[Division of Higgins]], failed to enter the two-party preferred vote, despite optimism within the Greens and a diminishing Liberal vote.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/06/jason-ball-scored-an-lgbt-first-in-football-now-his-goal-is-politics|title=Jason Ball scored an LGBT goal in football – now his sights are set on politics|last=Flanagan|first=Martin|date=5 September 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=5 July 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com/federal-election-2019/the-mood-has-turned-prized-seat-of-higgins-on-a-knife-edge-as-liberal-vote-heads-south-20190511-p51ma9.html|title='The mood has turned': Prized seat of Higgins on a knife-edge as Liberal vote heads south|last=Shields|first=Bevan|date=11 May 2019|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=5 July 2019}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In Macnamara (formerly [[Division of Melbourne Ports|Melbourne Ports]]), a three-way contest emerged between the Liberals, Labor and Greens. Greens candidate [[Steph Hodgins-May]] had come within a few hundred votes in 2016 of taking the seat, however, redistributions in the electorate for the 2019 election were unfavourable for the Greens' vote, and the party's final vote sat at 24.2%.<ref name="Towell-2019" />

On 3 February 2020, [[Richard Di Natale|Di Natale]] resigned as leader of the Greens and announced his intention to resign from the Senate.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Worthington |first=Brett |date=2020-02-03 |title=Richard Di Natale resigns as Greens leader and plans to quit federal politics |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-03/greens-leader-richard-di-natale-to-quit-politics/11759490 |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=ABC News}}</ref>