The Victorian Greens fear a near-wipe-out of their upper house MPs in the state election and have reached out to Labor for a preference-swap lifeline.

Greens insiders say they face the loss of three of their five Legislative Council members and have offered to preference Labor in several marginal seats, in exchange for Labor’s preferences in the upper house.

The Greens fear upper house MPs including Samantha Dunn and Nina Springle could lose their seats without a Labor preference deal. Credit:Benjamin Preiss

The party believes that without Labor’s preferences, upper house MPs Samantha Dunn, Nina Springle and Huong Truong could lose their seats, potentially from right-wing minor parties that have done preference swap deals.

Labor is yet to respond to the Greens’ proposal.