Margaret Ann Hartley known as Ann Hartley (born 1942) is a former New Zealand member of parliament, a former Mayor of North Shore

Mayor of North Shore

The Mayor of North Shore was the head of the municipal government of North Shore City, New Zealand, from 1989 to 2010, and presided over the North Shore City Council with 15 councillors. The mayor was directly elected using a first-past-the-post electoral system. The councillors were elected from...

 City, and a member of the Labour Party

New Zealand Labour Party

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Early years

Before entering parliament Hartley was the mayor of North Shore City, and before that, the mayor of Birkenhead

Birkenhead

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 (now a suburb of North Shore City). Before entering politics, she was a real estate agent. She was born in the town of Warkworth

Warkworth, New Zealand

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Member of Parliament

She was first elected to Parliament in the 1999 elections

New Zealand general election, 1999

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, winning the seat of Northcote

Northcote (New Zealand electorate)

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. She was re-elected for Northcote in 2002

New Zealand general election, 2002

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, but in 2005

New Zealand general election, 2005

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 was defeated by Jonathan Coleman, a long-standing rival. She remained in Parliament as a list candidate.

She was the Assistant Speaker of the House

Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives

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, and was replaced by Marian Hobbs

Marian Hobbs

Marian Leslie Hobbs , a New Zealand politician, was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2008. She was initially a list MP and then represented the Wellington Central electorate...

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Return to Council

In the 2007 local body elections Hartley was elected to the North Shore City Council, and left Parliament when it resumed in 2008. She was replaced by the next person on Labour's party list, Louisa Wall

Louisa Wall

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At the 2010 local government elections, the North Shore city council (along with all the other councils in the Auckland region) was replaced by a single Auckland council, she stood for the North Shore ward under the Shorevoice ticket and was successful. She started her new role when the council came into existence on 1 November 2010.