Ann Hartley

Early years

Hartley was born in 1942 in the town of Warkworth. Before entering politics, she was a real estate agent.

Mayoralties

Hartley was the mayor of Birkenhead, which later became a suburb of North Shore City. She was then mayor of North Shore City.

Member of Parliament

She unsuccessfully contested the Birkenhead electorate in the 1993 election, coming second to National's Ian Revell. She unsuccessfully contested the Northcote electorate in the 1996 election, again coming second to Revell. As she was ranked 47th on Labour's party list in the first MMP election, she did not enter Parliament as a list MP either.

She was first elected to Parliament in the 1999 election, winning the Northcote electorate. She was re-elected for Northcote in 2002, but in 2005 was defeated by Jonathan Coleman, a long-standing rival. She remained in Parliament as a list candidate.

Hartley served as the Deputy Speaker of the House in the 47th New Zealand Parliament and the Assistant Speaker from the 2005 general election until her retirement from national politics in February 2008. She was replaced by former environment minister Marian Hobbs as Assistant Speaker and by Louisa Wall as Labour list MP.

Later activities

In the 2007 local body elections Hartley was elected to the North Shore City Council, and left Parliament in 2008 after the summer recess.

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 Shore Voice ticket and was successful. She started her new role when the council came into existence on 1 November 2010. Although an incumbent Councillor, Hartley was not re-elected at the 2013 Auckland Council election where she placed third running for re-election to one of the two seats in the North Shore Ward.

Hartley was elected to the Kaipatiki Local Board at the 2016 Auckland elections.