Glenys Jenolan Godfrey ( Ward, born 19 July 1949) is a former Australian politician who was a

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member of the Legislative Assembly of

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from 2013 to 2017, representing the seat of Belmont. Godfrey was born in

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,Glenys Jenolan Godfrey
Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 3 February 2017. and attended

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. Godfrey is a Fellow of the

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, and has worked as a company director. She was elected to the Belmont City Council in 1997, and in 2005 was elected mayor. Godfrey first stood for parliament at the 2001 state election, losing to

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(the party's deputy leader) in Belmont with 35.3 percent of the

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vote. She reprised her candidacy at the 2005 election, narrowing the margin, and finally won the seat on her third attempt in 2013. She defeated the new Labor candidate,

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in the strong Labor seat by 330 votes on the two-party-preferred count.Belmont
WA Votes 2013, ABC News. Retrieved 3 February 2017. She faced Rowe again at the 2017 election but with the unpopular Barnett government in power she was this time defeated.

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