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, Cassie Rowe 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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