Politics
Willetton has a broadly upper-middle-class, mixed-ethnic population. Historically it has been fairly safe for the Liberal Party at both Federal and state elections, although three of the suburb's four booths delivered majorities to the Australian Labor Party at state level in 2001 and 2005. In 2008 it returned a Liberal member of parliament by a very slim majority.
The suburb is located within the Federal Division of Tangney, the State seat of Riverton and the Beeliar ward of the City of Canning.
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