Electoral district of Willagee

Willagee Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
Location of Willagee (dark green) in the Perth metropolitan area
State	Western Australia
Dates current	1996–present
MP	Peter Tinley
Party	Labor
Namesake	Willagee
Electors	28,393 (2021)
Area	35 km2 (13.5 sq mi)
Demographic	Metropolitan

Willagee is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia. The district is located in the southern suburbs of Perth.

Willagee has at all times been a safe Labor seat.

Geography

Willagee is an electorate in Perth's south, to the east and south-east of Fremantle. It includes:

• the suburbs of Willagee, Kardinya and Murdoch from the City of Melville;
• the suburbs of O'Connor and Samson from the City of Fremantle;
• the suburbs of Coolbellup, Bibra Lake, North Lake and South Lake from the City of Cockburn.

History

Willagee was first created at the 1994 redistribution ahead of the 1996 state election. It was won by Labor candidate Alan Carpenter, who later served as Minister for Education and other portfolios in the Gallop Ministry. Following Geoff Gallop's retirement from politics in January 2006, Carpenter became Premier, which he remained until the 2008 state election, at which Labor lost its majority. He retired from politics effective 2 October 2009 and the resulting by-election, held on 28 November, was won by Labor candidate Peter Tinley.

Members for Willagee

Member		Party	Term
	Alan Carpenter	Labor	1996–2009
	Peter Tinley	Labor	2009–present

Election results

Main article: Electoral results for the district of Willagee

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2021 Western Australian state election (Legislative Assembly) § Willagee.[edit]

2021 Western Australian state election: Willagee

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Peter Tinley	15,576	66.1	+11.3
	Liberal	Barry Jones	4,525	19.2	−9.3
	Greens	Felicity Townsend	2,197	9.3	−1.9
	No Mandatory Vaccination	Susan Poole	507	2.2	+2.2
	One Nation	Mark Dalrymple	434	1.8	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Mitchell	310	1.3	+1.3
Total formal votes			23,549	96.3	+1.1
Informal votes			906	3.7	−1.1
Turnout			24,455	86.1	−2.8
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Peter Tinley	18,156	77.1	+9.5
	Liberal	Barry Jones	5,387	22.9	−9.5
	Labor hold		Swing	+9.5

External links

• ABC election profiles: 2005 2008
• WAEC district maps: current boundaries, previous distributions