ACT Liberal leader Zed Seselja says he will not enter a bidding war for Greens support and has warned the minor party against automatically siding with Labor in a minority government.
Mr Seselja also said the likely loss of two sitting Liberal MLAs at the weekend was a ''positive'' for the party and would bring renewal.
Shadow health minister Jacqui Burke and Brindabella MLA Steve Pratt are likely to lose their seats to fellow Liberal candidates, leaving a potential Seselja government with only three incumbent MLAs.
Both major parties are set to win seven seats, the Greens to hold the other three.
With a hung parliament on the cards and a backlash against Labor evident, Mr Seselja said the Greens should seriously consider the Liberals' pitch for government.
''I think it is important for the Greens to show that they can't be taken for granted by the Labor Party.
''We've heard from Jon Stanhope, we've heard from Katy Gallagher [on Saturday] that they simply expect the Greens to fall into line,'' he said.
''If they do fall into line I suppose it would confirm what Jon Stanhope is saying but if they want to show themselves as a genuine third force, as a genuinely separate independent party that will play an important role in the future of Canberra, then I suppose they would want to treat these negotiations separately.''
Labor has won 37 per cent of the primary vote compared with the Liberals' 31 per cent but Mr Seselja said this did not mean Labor had the right to form government. ''There's no mandate there for Jon Stanhope: we believe our environmental policies are stronger than the Labor Party's.
''We also believe there is a strong vote for change.''
That vote for change also swept through the Liberals' ticket, with Mrs Burke and Mr Pratt making way for up to four new MLAs Jeremy Hanson, Giulia Jones, Alistair Coe and Steve Doszpot.
Mr Seselja sought to put a positive spin on the loss of Mrs Burke and Mr Pratt.
''In most elections in Hare-Clark [the voting system], we do turn over existing MLAs. People make judgments on individual MLAs,'' he said.
''I don't write them off yet, I think there's a lot of counting to be done.
''But clearly some of the new candidates have done well. Sometimes that's about being fresh and new and getting out there and doing grassroots work.
''I see it as a positive. People make these judgments: in the end politics is a tough game.''
The Greens have won three seats in the Assembly but will still not say who they intend to support in government.
Mr Seselja phoned the Greens' Molonglo candidate, Shane Rattenbury, on Saturday night to congratulate the party but said negotiations had not yet begun.
Mr Seselja said that, until he had sat down face to face with the Greens, his chances of forming government remained unclear.
But he touted his party's environmental credentials and the fact that the Liberals had a bigger surplus to put towards the Greens' demands.