Jon Gee
Constituency amNapier
AssemblySouth Australian House of
Term start15 March 2014
Term end17 March 2018
PredecessorMichael O'Brien
SuccessorSeat abolished
Constituency am 1Taylor
Assembly 1South Australian House of
Term start 117 March 2018
Term end 119 March 2022
Predecessor 1Leesa Vlahos
Successor 1Nick Champion
Birth date24 May 1959 (age 67)
Birth placeHarlington, Bedfordshire, England
PartyAustralian Labor Party (SA)
Honorific suffixMP
Websitejongeemp.com

Jonathan Peter Gee (born 24 May 1959) is a British Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly since the 2014 state election, representing Napier until 2018 and Taylor thereafter.[1][2]

Before his election, Gee had been a secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union vehicle division and a Labor state president with close connections to the northern suburbs of Adelaide and to Holden.[3][4]

Gee's seat of Napier was renamed King and the boundaries moved east for the 2018 election, paring Gee's margin from a fairly safe nine percent to an extremely marginal 0.1 percent. Gee opted to transfer to the friendlier seat of Taylor, which received some of the western part of Napier in the redistribution.[5]

Gee announced in late January 2021 that he no longer intended to contest the 2022 South Australian state election.[6] It was rumoured that federal MP Nick Champion would take his place as Champion's previous plan to move to the electoral district of Light fell through.[7]

References

  1. ^ Green, Antony. "South Australian Election 2014". ABC
  2. ^ Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  3. ^ Novak, Lauren & Wills, Daniel (5 February 2014). "Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union's Jon Gee preselected by Labor to run in Napier". The Advertiser. South Australia: News Limited. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  4. ^ "Jon Gee". South Australian Labor Party. 2017-11-19. Archived 2017-11-19 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  5. ^ "State Election candidates". South Australian Labor. Retrieved 17 January 2018.[dead link]
  6. ^ Dornin, Tim (27 January 2021). "SA Labor MP Jon Gee to call it quits". The West Australian. AAP. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  7. ^ Richardson, Tom (27 January 2021). "By Gee, Champion set to seek swap to state politics". InDaily. Retrieved 28 January 2021.