Janet Haworth

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|term_start1 = 27 May 2015 {{cite web |url=http://www.assembly.wales/en/memhome/Pages/MemberProfile.aspx?mid=4087 |publisher=NAfW|title=Info}}

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|successor1 = Michelle Brown

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Janet Elizabeth Haworth is a Welsh Conservative politician who was a Member of the Welsh Assembly (AM) for the North Wales Region between 2015 and 2016.

Haworth ran a guest house from 2005 with her partner, Dennis Oliver.{{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

}}

She worked for Shell in Aberdeenshire until she retired to Llandudno in about 2003,{{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

}}

and became a town and county councillor.

Assembly Member

At the May 2011 election to the National Assembly for Wales, she was in third place on the Conservative list for the North Wales region. The Conservatives won two seats, which meant that Haworth was not elected.{{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

}} Antoinette Sandbach, who held one of the two Conservative list seats, was elected to the House of Commons at the 2015 general election. Sandbach announced her resignation from the National Assembly on 8 May 2015. As the next available candidate on the party list from 2011, Haworth succeeded her as an assembly member.{{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

}} 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.{{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}}

Haworth was defeated at the 2016 Assembly election.