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|name = Karen Lee
|honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}}
|image = Official portrait of Ms Karen Lee crop 2.jpg
|office1 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br>for [[Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)|Lincoln]]
|term_start1 = 9 June 2017
|term_end1 =
|predecessor1 = [[Karl McCartney]]
|successor1 =
|majority1 = 1,538 (3.2%)
|birth_name = Karen Elizabeth Lee
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|1|15|df=yes}}
|birth_place =
|party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
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'''Karen Elizabeth Lee''' (born 15 January 1959 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://myparliament.info/member/4664 |title=Councillor Karen Lee | website = lincolnlabourparty.org.uk |publisher=Lincoln Labour Party |date= |accessdate=12 June 2017}}</ref>) is a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician. She has been the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)|Lincoln]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/ms-karen-lee/4664|title=Ms Karen Lee MP|website=parliament.uk | publisher = UK Parliament|accessdate=20 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Election 2017: Lincoln | work = [[BBC News]] | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000792 | date = 9 June 2017 | access-date = 22 June 2017}}</ref> since the [[United Kingdom general election, 2017]].<ref name="Ionescu">{{cite news | last = Ionescu | first = Daniel |url=http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2017/06/labours-karen-lee-defeats-conservative-karl-mccartney-lincoln/ |title=Labour's Karen Lee defeats Conservative Karl McCartney in Lincoln | work = The Lincolnite |publisher= Stonebow Media |date=9 June 2017 |accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref> She defeated the sitting [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MP, [[Karl McCartney]] by 1,538 votes.<ref name="Ionescu" />

Lee was educated at [[South Park High School, Lincoln]] and [[Lincoln College, Lincolnshire]].<ref>{{Who's Who | surname = Lee| othernames = Karen| id = U289511| volume = 2018 | edition = February 2018 online | accessed = 14 February 2018 }}</ref> Prior to her career in politics, she worked as a nurse at [[Lincoln County Hospital]], and was first elected as a local councillor in 2003.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Matt B. |url=https://nursingnotes.co.uk/four-nurses-take-seats-house-commons/|title=Five Nurses take seats in the House of Commons|date=13 June 2017|work=NursingNotes|accessdate=20 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Norton | first = Emily |url= http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2017/05/karen-lee-named-labour-candidate-lincoln-mp-seat/ |title=Karen Lee named as Labour candidate for Lincoln MP seat | work = The Lincolnite |publisher= Stonebow Media | date = 2 May 2017 |accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref> She served as Mayor of Lincoln from May 2012 to May 2013.<ref>{{cite news | last = Barnaby_B |url=http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/councillor-karen-lee-sworn-806th-mayor-lincoln/story-16088090-detail/story.html|title=Councillor Karen Lee sworn in as 806th Mayor of Lincoln|work = [[Lincolnshire Echo|Lincolnshire Live]] | publisher = [[Trinity Mirror]] | date = 15 May 2012|accessdate=12 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| last = Lincolnshire Echo | author-link = Lincolnshire Echo |url=http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/councillor-karen-lee-s-reign-mayor-lincoln-coming/story-18933704-detail/story.html|title=Councillor Karen Lee's reign as Mayor of Lincoln coming to an end|work = [[Lincolnshire Echo|Lincolnshire Live]] | publisher = [[Trinity Mirror]] | date = 11 May 2013|accessdate=12 June 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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