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Liberal National retain

  • Previously held by LNP with margin of 5.7%.
  • Trevor Watts re-elected for fourth term.

Vote:50.0%
16,115
Swing: +7.8%

Vote:35.0%
11,297
Swing: +2.0%

Vote:7.4%
2,380
Swing: -7.3%

Vote:6.5%
2,080
Swing: -0.1%

Vote:1.1%
364
Swing: +1.1%

Vote:0.0%
0
Swing: -3.6%
Informal Votes
2.5%
819
Total Votes
33,055

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Year Winning Party
1972 ALP
1974 LIB
1977 LIB
1980 LIB
1983 NAT
1986 NAT
1989 ALP
1992 NAT
1995 NAT
1998 NAT
2001 ALP
2004 ALP
2006 ALP
2009 ALP
2012 LNP
2015 LNP
2017 LNP

LNP majorities recorded at 13 of the 21 polling places used in 2017 ranging from 40.6% at the Harlaxton Neighbourhood Centre to 70.6% at Fairholme College in the east of Toowoomba.


(Click on polling place for results)

Candidate Name Party
HUMPHREY,Ron Pauline Hanson's One Nation
WATTS,Trevor LNP
SOKOLOVA,Stella Clive Palmer's UAP
NELLIGAN,Alyce The Greens
O'HARA SULLIVAN,Megan Australian Labor Party

Ron Humphrey (Pauline Hanson's One Nation)

Trevor Watts (LNP)

Stella Sokolova (Clive Palmer's UAP)

Alyce Nelligan (The Greens)

Megan O'Hara Sullivan (Australian Labor Party)

Candidate Party Votes % Swing
Trevor Watts LNP 13,128 42.2 -2.2
Kerry Shine ALP 10,274 33.0 -5.8
Paul Wilson ONP 4,561 14.7 +14.7
Emmeline Chidley GRN 2,033 6.5 +2.0
Josie Townsend IND 1,118 3.6 +3.6
.... OTH 0 0.0 -3.9
.... PUP 0 0.0 -5.0
.... KAP 0 0.0 -3.3
Trevor Watts LNP 17,337 55.7 +4.1
Kerry Shine ALP 13,777 44.3 -4.1

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