Electoral district of Willagee

Willagee Western Australia—Legislative Assembly
State	Western Australia
Dates current	1996–present
MP	Peter Tinley
Party	Labor
Namesake	Willagee
Area	21 km² (8.1 sq mi)
Demographic	South 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 a north–south elongated electorate in Perth's south, to the east and south-east of Fremantle. It includes:

the suburbs of Willagee and parts of Kardinya, Melville, Myaree and Palmyra from the City of Melville;
the suburbs of Hilton, O'Connor and Samson from the City of Fremantle;
the suburb of Coolbellup and parts of Bibra Lake and Hamilton Hill 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

Western Australian state election, 2013: Willagee
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labor	Peter Tinley	9,280	46.5	–5.6
	Liberal	Samuel Piipponen	7,097	35.6	+5.7
	Greens	Alisha Ryans-Taylor	2,634	13.2	–4.1
	Socialist Alliance	Sam Wainwright	397	2.0	+2.0
	Independent	Teresa Van Lieshout	361	1.8	+1.8
	Independent	Wayne Shortland	181	0.9	+0.9
Total formal votes			19,950	93.3	+0.3
Informal votes			1,431	6.7	-0.3
Turnout			21,381	89.5
Two-party-preferred result
	Labor	Peter Tinley	12,080	60.6	–4.5
	Liberal	Samuel Piipponen	7,856	39.4	+4.5
	Labor hold		Swing	–4.5

References

External links

ABC Election Profiles: 2005 2008
WAEC District Maps: 1996–2005 2005–2008 2008–

Electoral districts of Western Australia

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