The Tasmanian Greens 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," leader Cassy O'Connor said.
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.
"Millions of dollars, millions of dollars pouring in from the gambling industry, from the (gaming and hospitality company) Federal Group into Liberal Party coffers," she said.
"It is money that comes from human hardship."
She said donations laws and election campaign spending needed to be overhauled in the state.
She said it had been an honour to sit in parliament alongside fellow Greens MPs Rosalie Woodruff and Andrea Dawkins.
"We have fought so hard for this island, and often I know we are the real opposition," Ms O'Connor said.
She thanked other candidates and campaign staff, and promised to keep fighting on Greens issues.
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.
"I do wish you well, and I do hope that over the next four years you put this island and its people first."
Ms 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.
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