Likely new Greens MP Michael Berkman wants to embark on a listening tour of Queensland so he can be a representative for the whole state.
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Earlier, Fairfax Media revealed the Greens were set to announce the historic win in the west Brisbane seat of Maiwar, with party officials confident the count and preference flow were in their favour.
Speaking from Guyatt Park at St Lucia, Mr Berkman said he wanted to "represent not just the people of Maiwar".
"Although they're obviously my first and foremost concern," he said.
"But I want to give a voice to every person in Queensland who's been left out of the system, the broken politics that we've become so used to."
Mr Berkman said he would start his tour by going on a listening tour of Queensland, including the regions, and find out what people need, and suggested he could use his MP travel budget.
He said the numbers in the next Parliament were still unclear, but he believed the experience of Greens Councillor Jonathan Sri in Brisbane City Council and members in the federal Parliament proved how influential a Greens voice could be.
"Just being in there, having a voice, and being able to keep these issues on the agenda," he said.
"I'll keep pressure on Labor to veto Adani's NAIF loan, we'll keep pressure on them to follow through with all of the commitments that we've made that we think will improve people's lives."
Mr Berkman said he would continue to oppose all corporate donations in politics, and he was a supporter of publicly-funded elections.
"We see some really extravagant and almost ridiculous spending on election campaigns sometimes, we see that there is a role for people, individuals who have personal interests in seeing certain political outcomes," he said.
"But there is a fundamental difference between people identifying what the community needs and giving their own personal funds, as compared with corporate interests that have a single profit motive."
Mr Berkman said he looked forward to having a constructive relationship with others including the Katter's Australian Party and Noosa independent Sandy Boulton.
It would be the first time a Greens MP was elected to the Queensland Parliament, although the minor party snagged a seat in 2008 when Labor Indooroopilly MP Ronan Lee defected.
Labor candidate Ali King was yet to concede on Thursday morning.
LNP member Scott Emerson conceded in November.
Mr Emerson was the member for Indooroopilly, which had a margin of 6.7 per cent to the LNP, but following the electoral redistribution contested Maiwar, which had a narrower margin of 3 per cent.
The Electoral Commission of Queensland has now officially declared 50 out of 93 seats - 28 for Labor, one for the Katter's Australian Party and 21 for the LNP.
Labor was expected to reach at least the 47 seats required for a majority government.
But LNP leader Tim Nicholls was not expected to concede on Thursday and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was not expected to accept victory as the count continued.
There was also expected to be three Katter's Australian MPs on the crossbench, alongside one One Nation MP and one independent.
