All Green eyes were on the Melbourne's inner north on Saturday night to see if the party could seize its second lower house seat following its biggest campaign to date. 
Early indications from polling booths were that there was a swing on against Labor in Batman, where Alex Bhathal mounted her fifth tilt at public office, once again against Labor's David Feeney.
Next door in Wills, reports from both sides also said that there was a swing against the ALP.
"The swing is definitely on, it is just a matter of how much," one senior ALP source said.
The Greens have been building in Batman and Wills for some time with a change in demographics as more well-off professionals buy houses in areas that were once the homes of working-class and migrant Labor families.
Batman was once Labor's safest seat in Australia, held by stalwart Martin Ferguson.
In both Wills and Batman the Liberal preferences will go a long way to deciding the winner. The Liberals, who polled 22.4 per cent of the primary in 2013 in Batman and 22.2 per cent in Wills, have placed Labor ahead of the Greens on how-to-vote cards. However, reports from Batman were that there was little Liberal presence at polling booths, with boxes of how-to-vote cards dumped at booths.
The inner-city battles between Labor and Greens, and Liberals and Greens in Higgins, have been hit by dirty politics, with former state minister Peter Batchelor caught ripping down Greens posters at a Clifton Hill primary school and Labor operatives arrested for vandalism in Melbourne Ports.
In Higgins the Greens made a bold bid to unseat assistant treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer in blue-ribbon Liberal territory. That campaign also turned nasty, with police investigating the alleged biting of a Greens volunteer by a backer of Ms O'Dwyer.
Before polls closed Greens leader Richard Di Natale said he expected swings in inner-city seats.
"What you will see is these seats turn Green, if not at this election, then the next one," Senator Di Natale said on ABC television.
The Greens ran an unprecedented campaign in Victoria for lower house seats, with an advertising campaign budget that appeared to rival the major parties.
The party took the rare step of advertising for individual seats, Higgins and Batman, in metropolitan-wide press - including on the front page of Thursday's The Age for Ms Bhathal in Batman.
And up until the media blackout TV commercials were screened in prime time for Ms Bhathal in Batman and Jason Ball in Higgins.
Despite Senator Di Natale declaring before the election the party did not do polling, two Greens-commissioned polls were given to the media, which showed them in front in Batman and making ground in Higgins.
Incumbent Melbourne MP Adam Bandt was expected to be returned, with a well-resourced campaign against Labor's Sophie Ismail.
One pessimistic Labor figure said: "We are getting flogged."