Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner will be re-elected, with Labor’s Tracey Price running a distant second and the Greens’ Jonathan Sriranganathan third.

With 23 per cent of the vote counted, Schrinner had secured almost 47 per cent for the LNP, ahead of Price on 26 per cent.

That means that even if Green preferences are distributed from Sriranganathan, it will not push Price into the lead.

At about 9pm, the LNP was ahead in 17 wards, Labor ahead in five, and the Greens ahead in two, with the minor party set to pick up Paddington and add to its numbers in City Hall.

Just after 9pm, Sriranganathan spoke to Greens party faithful, telling them he did not “really care” about the result of his race to take City Hall.

“I’m not even going to look at what the swing is or how many votes we ended up winning,” he said.

“When I put my hand up to run, it was to support the people behind me (the Greens candidates) and to help us get a few more seats here in this council chamber.”

At the Greens’ party in Milton, the former councillor said his campaign was not about becoming mayor, but about growing the Greens vote.

“It looks like we’ve got a swing to the Greens in almost every single suburb,” he said.

“This was the most radical political platform … that the Greens have ever run anywhere in Australia and we have won seats, we have won votes.”