Community-based independents could dislodge Labor MPs from safe seats in Melbourne and Sydney at the next election if the party does not stop taking its voters for granted, a leading pollster says.

Six blue-ribbon Liberal seats fell to teal independents at Saturday’s federal election, but former Labor strategist Kos Samaras, director of strategy and campaigns at RedBridge Group, said the Labor Party could face its own challenge from independents at the next federal election.