{{Short description|Welsh Conservative politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Janet Haworth | honorific_suffix = | image = Janet Owart.jpg | alt = | caption = | constituency_AM1 = [[North Wales (National Assembly for Wales constituency)|North Wales]] | assembly1 = National Assembly for Wales{{!}}Welsh | majority1 = | term_start1 = 27 May 2015 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assembly.wales/en/memhome/Pages/MemberProfile.aspx?mid=4087|publisher=NAfW|title=Info|access-date=22 July 2019|archive-date=14 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514105836/http://www.assembly.wales/en/memhome/Pages/MemberProfile.aspx?mid=4087|url-status=dead}}</ref> | term_end1 = 6 April 2016 | predecessor1 = [[Antoinette Sandbach]] | successor1 = [[Michelle Brown (politician)|Michelle Brown]] | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1949|12}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | party = [[Welsh Conservatives|Conservative]] {{small|(2004–present)}} <br />[[Welsh Liberal Democrats|Liberal Democrats]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://blog.welshelections.org.uk/2015/12/by-election-preview-16-december-2015.html |title=Welsh Elections: By-election Preview: 16 December 2015 |access-date=17 December 2015 |archive-date=22 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222101941/http://blog.welshelections.org.uk/2015/12/by-election-preview-16-december-2015.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{small|(until 2004)}} | other_party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Janet Elizabeth Haworth''' (born December 1949) is a [[Welsh Conservatives|Welsh Conservative]] politician who was a [[Member of the Senedd|Member of the Welsh Assembly]] (AM) for the [[North Wales (Senedd electoral region)|North Wales Region]] between 2015 and 2016.
==Background== Haworth ran a [[guest house]] from 2005 with her partner, Dennis Oliver.<ref name="wales-online-meet-janet">{{cite news | url = http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/meet-north-wales-councillor-who-8931563 | title = Meet the North Wales councillor who could be set for a seat in the Assembly | date = 27 March 2015 | first = David | last = Deans | work = Wales Online | accessdate = 13 May 2015 }}</ref> She worked for [[Royal Dutch Shell|Shell]] in [[Aberdeenshire]] until she retired to Llandudno in about 2003,<ref name="Dailypost-2015-sandbach-selection">{{cite news | url = http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-am-antoinette-sandbach-8925137 | title = North Wales AM Antoinette Sandbach selected as Tory election candidate in safe Cheshire seat | newspaper = Daily Post | date = 26 March 2015 | first = Rachel | last = Flint | accessdate = 13 May 2015 }}</ref> and became a town and [[county council]]lor.<ref name="wales-online-meet-janet" />
==Political career== ===Assembly Member=== At the [[2011 National Assembly for Wales election|May 2011 election]] to the [[National Assembly for Wales]], she was in third place on the Conservative list for the [[North Wales (National Assembly for Wales constituency)|North Wales region]]. The Conservatives won two seats, which meant that Haworth was not elected.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/may/05/welsh-assembly-elections-2011 | title = Election results 2011: Welsh assembly results in full | date = 6 May 2011 | newspaper = The Guardian | accessdate = 13 May 2015 }}</ref> [[Antoinette Sandbach]], who held one of the two Conservative list seats, was elected to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] at the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]]. Sandbach announced her resignation from the National Assembly on 8 May 2015.<ref name="BBC-2015-election-sandbach-quits"/> As the next available candidate on the party list from 2011, Haworth succeeded her as an assembly member.<ref name="BBC-2015-election-sandbach-quits">{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-wales-32661922 | title = Election 2015: Antoinette Sandbach quits Welsh assembly | newspaper = BBC News | date = 8 May 2015 | accessdate = 13 May 2015 }}</ref> She resigned as a Councillor in October 2015 after facing criticisms for her lack of attendance in council meetings following her appointment as an Assembly Member.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/am-janet-haworth-resigns-councillor-10347626|title=AM Janet Haworth resigns as a councillor after not going to meetings for months|first=David|last=Deans|date=28 October 2015|website=WalesOnline}}</ref>
Haworth was defeated at the [[2016 National Assembly for Wales election|2016 Assembly election]].
==See also== * [[List of Welsh AMs/MSs with the shortest service]]
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|wal}} {{s-bef|before=[[Antoinette Sandbach]]}} {{s-ttl | title = [[Members of the National Assembly for Wales|Assembly Member]] for [[North Wales (National Assembly for Wales constituency)|North Wales]] | years = 2015–2016 }} {{s-aft|after=[[Michelle Brown (politician)|Michelle Brown]]}} {{s-end}}
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