The Tasmanian Greens have blasted the big-spending gaming industry after scraping through a bruising state election campaign which could leave them with just one seat.
Greens Leader Cassy O'Connor says the gaming industry bought the Liberals the state election with the millions of dollars spent to fight against policies to end poker machines in the state.
"My message to the Liberal Party - you will be celebrating tonight, but this stain of being bought by the gambling industry. It will live with you forever," she said in Hobart on Saturday night.
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Labor and the Greens had a policy to get rid of pokies from pubs and clubs, while the Liberals would keep them until at least 2043.
Ms O'Connor said the Greens disappointing result - where they look like losing at least one of their three seats - were outspent by Labor and by the Liberal government.
"It is money that comes from human hardship."
It was the second election in a row where they had lost seats. In 2014 they went from five seats to three and could end up with only Ms O'Connor in parliament this time.
Greens MP Rosalie Woodruff has a fight on her hands in the southern Tasmanian electorate of Franklin, where Labor threatens to pinch her spot.
Ms Dawkins, a first-term Greens MP in the northern seat of Bass, looks certain to lose her seat.
The party had been hopeful of collecting a fourth in the sprawling rural electorate of Lyons.
Ms O'Connor said donations laws and election campaign spending needed to be overhauled in the state.
She congratulated Will Hodgman on his government's re-election, but warned him he had no mandate to change gun laws, or logging in the rainforests.
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