Joanne McCartney

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Joanne McCartney
Member of the London Assembly for Enfield and Haringey
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 June 2004
Preceded by	Nicky Gavron
Majority	36,741
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Nationality	British
Political party	Labour

Joanne McCartney is a British Labour Party politician and barrister, a member of the London Assembly.

McCartney worked as a barrister specialising in employment law and helped to establish a local Chambers in Enfield in the early 1990s. She also worked as an adjudicator for the Housing Ombudsman dealing with disputes between landlords and tenants.

McCartney was elected a councillor in the London Borough of Enfield in 1998, for Edmonton, then Palmers Green, and stood down at the 2006 local elections. She was elected to the London Assembly for Enfield and Haringey in the 2004 assembly elections.

She was a member of the Commission for Racial Equality.

She won re-election in 2008 by around 1,400 votes. In the 2012 election, she increased her majority to 36,741 votes.

McCartney has three children, and is chair of governors at her local primary school.

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Labour	Navin Shah John Biggs Joanne McCartney Len Duvall Onkar Sahota Val Shawcross Andrew Dismore Jennette Arnold Nicky Gavron Murad Qureshi Fiona Twycross Tom Copley

Conservative	James Cleverly Stephen O'Connell Roger Evans Richard Tracey Tony Arbour Kit Malthouse Andrew Boff Victoria Borwick Gareth Bacon

Green	Jenny Jones Darren Johnson

Liberal Democrats	Caroline Pidgeon Stephen Knight

italics = Party-list members

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