Queensland's shadow treasurer Scott Emerson is not giving up his fight for the new Brisbane seat of Maiwar, despite a dramatic swing to the Greens.
Mr Emerson is one of three Liberal National Party frontbenchers in grave danger, in a worrying election indicator for his party, as almost half of the vote has been counted on Saturday night.
Shadow attorney-general Ian Walker and the LNP's spokesman for natural resources and mines Andrew Cripps are also in severe trouble.
Mr Emerson, the LNP's spokesman over the four-week campaign, is under pressure with 40 per cent of the primary vote, only narrowly ahead of the Greens' Michael Berkman (29) and Labor candidate Ali King (28).
Greens and Labor preferences will flow to each other so whichever party finishes second on the primary vote will be favoured to unseat the shadow treasurer and former journalist.
"I think it will be a tough fight. We are still in it. We are not giving up anything at the moment," he told the ABC.
The Greens had targeted the new affluent inner-western Brisbane seat of Maiwar, which had been made up of Mr Emerson's old seat of Indooroopilly and Mt Coot-tha, held by Labor's Steven Miles.
Environment Minister Dr Miles moved to the safe Labor seat of Murrumba in northern Brisbane, which the shadow treasurer hit out at, as well as Labor's parliamentary move to reintroduce compulsory preferential voting.
Mr Emerson says the final result could be decided by pre-poll votes, which had risen in his electorate.
"Those figures will play significant roll," he said. "They tend to favour the incumbent.
"It was always going to be a tough fight and given the new boundaries and change to the voting system, but I am not a quitter and that's why I stayed here and didn't run away like Steven Miles did."
Mr Walker appears set to lose the seat of Mansfield with a 2.5 per cent swing to Labor's Corrine McMillan, also blamed the electoral redistribution.
"It's obvious from here it's going to be a very hard fight to win this seat," he said on the Seven Network.
"The redistribution made this a Labor seat that I had to win back. We needed a swing towards us - doesn't look like that's happened."
The LNP are also in danger of losing long-time Hinchinbrook MP Mr Cripps who is in a tight tussle with Katter's Australian Party candidate Nick Dametto.
