Glenys Godfrey Explained

Glenys Godfrey
Office:Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Belmont
Term Start:9 March 2013
Term End:11 March 2017
Predecessor:Eric Ripper
Successor:Cassie Rowe
Birth Name:Glenys Jenolan Ward
Birth Date:19 July 1949
Birth Place:Perth, Western Australia
Party:Liberal

Glenys Jenolan Godfrey (Ward; born 19 July 1949) is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2013 to 2017, representing the seat of Belmont.

Godfrey was born in Perth,[1] and attended Kent Street Senior High School.[2] Godfrey is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Accountants, 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 Labor's Eric Ripper (the party's deputy leader) in Belmont with 35.3 percent of the two-party-preferred vote. She reprised her candidacy at the 2005 election, narrowing the margin, and finally won the seat on her third attempt in 2013.[1] She defeated the new Labor candidate, Cassie Rowe in the strong Labor seat by 330 votes on the two-party-preferred count.[3] 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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  1. http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/A1057952A0E6A80C48257CB6002AC8A8?OpenDocument Glenys Jenolan Godfrey
  2. Web site: 'Kentians' gather as Kent Street High School turns 70 . 9 July 2015 . 8 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180808011920/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Barnett/2010/10/%E2%80%98Kentians%E2%80%99-gather-as-Kent-Street-High-School-turns-70.aspx . dead .
  3. http://www.abc.net.au/elections/wa/2013/guide/belm.htm Belmont