Hartley was born in 1942 in the town of Warkworth. Before entering politics, she was a real estate agent. From 1980 to 1986 she was a member of the Birkenhead City Council, a member of the Child Abuse Prevention Society from 1983 to 1986 and a member of the Auckland Education Board from 1984 to 1989.[1]
Political career
Mayoralties
From 1986, Hartley was the mayor of Birkenhead City, which in 1989 was absorbed into the newly created North Shore City. She then became mayor of North Shore City.
She unsuccessfully contested the Birkenhead electorate in the 1993 election, coming second to National's Ian Revell.[3] She unsuccessfully contested the Northcote electorate in the 1996 election, again coming second to Revell.[4] As she was ranked 47th on Labour's party list in this first MMP election, she did not enter Parliament as a list MP either.[5]
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.[citation needed] She remained in Parliament as a list candidate.
At the 2010 local government elections, when the North Shore City Council (along with all the other councils in the Auckland region) was amalgamated into the 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. 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.[9]
^Normally, list MPs do not have individual predecessors or successors, but Hartley resigned during a sitting parliament and therefore was succeeded by Wall.
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