Groom is a Liberal seat covering Toowoomba and surrounding rural areas. The seat is a relatively safe seat for the conservative parties, who have held it since its creation. It currently covers the city of Toowoomba and rural areas further to the west, with a majority of the population living in urban Toowoomba.
The seat is held by Ian Macfarlane, who previously served as a cabinet minister in the Howard government and was central to negotiating a deal on the emissions trading scheme between the Labor government and the Liberal Party under Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership in 2009.
