The Greens look set to retain the inner-Sydney seat of Newtown with a significant swing towards the party that's suffered a tumultuous few years with infighting and defections.
Sitting member Jenny Leong said the situation was looking "really positive" with an early swing towards her of 6.1 per cent with just over two per cent of the vote counted.
"One thing is clear - everyone's talking about the need for action on climate change," she told ABC TV.
"It's pretty clear the people of Newtown are saying that they want to see an end to coal-fired power stations in this state."
After months of bitter internal factional warfare embattled Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham quit the party in mid-December to stand as an independent.
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He'd come under sustained pressure from rivals to leave over a 2011 sexual harassment allegation.
Nevertheless, Ms Leong on Saturday night insisted there was "absolute strength and unity" across the state in terms of its priority seats.
The Greens have three lower house sitting MPs in Ballina, Balmain and Newtown which they're hoping to retain.
The party is also hoping to pick up Lismore with local lawyer Sue Higginson.
A party spokesman told AAP that on the early figures it was "too close to call".
With 16 per cent of the ballots counted, Nationals candidate Austin Curtin was ahead of Ms Higginson 51 to 49 on a two-party preferred basis.
