LNP 10.2%
Incumbent MP
David Janetzki, since 2016.
Geography
South-East Queensland. Southern parts of the Toowoomba urban area, specifically covering the suburbs of Glenvale, Harristown, South Toowoomba, Rangeville, Centenary Heights, Kearneys Spring, Middle Ridge and parts of Darling Heights.
History
The seat of Toowoomba South has existed since the 1972 election. It was won by the ALP at the first election but has been held by the National Party (now the LNP) ever since.
Peter Wood won Toowoomba South in 1972. He had held Toowoomba East since 1966, but moved seats when his old seat was abolished. He was defeated in 1974 by the Country Party’s John Warner.
Warner held the seat for the National Party until 1986, when he was succeeded by Clive Berghofer, also by the National Party.
Berghofer had served as Mayor of Toowoomba since 1982, and continued to serve as Mayor while sitting in Parliament. In 1991, changes in legislation banned the practice of councillors sitting in Parliament, and Berghofer resigned from Toowoomba South in order to retain his mayoralty. His term as mayor ended in 1992.
The 1991 Toowoomba South by-election was won by the National Party’s Mike Horan. Horan held Toowoomba South until 2012, and served as Leader of the Opposition from 2001 to 2003.
In 2012, Horan was succeeded by the LNP’s John McVeigh.
McVeigh was re-elected in 2015. He resigned in 2016 to successfully contest the federal seat of Groom at the 2016 federal election.
LNP candidate David Janetzki won the subsequent by-election, and was re-elected in 2017 and 2020.
Assessment
Toowoomba South is a safe LNP seat.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| David Janetzki | Liberal National | 16,689 | 51.3 | +4.8 |
| Susan Krause | Labor | 10,028 | 30.8 | +3.9 |
| Dylan Kozlowski | One Nation | 2,502 | 7.7 | -8.8 |
| Thomas Coyne | Greens | 2,232 | 6.9 | -0.3 |
| Robert Berry | Independent | 570 | 1.8 | -1.1 |
| Allan Turner | United Australia | 490 | 1.5 | +1.5 |
| Informal | 929 | 2.8 |
2020 two-party-preferred result
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Swing |
| David Janetzki | Liberal National | 19,579 | 60.2 | +0.2 |
| Susan Krause | Labor | 12,932 | 39.8 | -0.2 |
Booths in Toowoomba South have been divided into three areas: north-east, north-west and south.
The Liberal National Party won a majority of the two-party-preferred vote in all three areas, ranging from 51% in the north-west to 58.6% in the south.
| Voter group | LNP 2PP % | Total votes | % of votes |
| South | 58.6 | 2,749 | 8.5 |
| North-West | 51.0 | 2,563 | 7.9 |
| North-East | 53.5 | 2,108 | 6.5 |
| Pre-poll | 60.3 | 13,450 | 41.4 |
| Other votes | 63.7 | 11,641 | 35.8 |
Election results in Toowoomba South at the 2020 Queensland state election
Toggle between two-party-preferred votes and primary votes for the Liberal National Party and Labor.
Janteski is a respected local member, and will be returned handsomely.
What NQ View said. Janetzki has been a great local MP and Shadow Treasurer.
David Janetzki is getting a bit of heat in the media today. The view is he’s been missing in action. I think the scuritny is warranted. Curtis Pitt was Labor’s shadow treasurer before the 2015 Queensland state election. He fronted up to a debate with the then LNP’S treasurer Tim Nicholls on the ABC’S show stateline. Pitt lost the debate and lost convincingly but atleast he fronted up. Janetzki in hiding may make some wonder if he’s not equipped to be treasurer. The way Joe Hockey was out of his depth as treasurer, the same could be possibly said about Janetzki. Economics is more then bagging Labor with three word slogans.