Jon Gee Explained

Jon Gee
Constituency Am:Napier
Assembly:South Australian House of
Term Start:15 March 2014
Term End:17 March 2018
Predecessor:Michael O'Brien
Successor:Seat abolished
Constituency Am1:Taylor
Assembly1:South Australian House of
Term Start1:17 March 2018
Term End1:19 March 2022
Predecessor1:Leesa Vlahos
Successor1:Nick Champion
Birth Date:1959 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Harlington, Bedfordshire, England
Party:Australian Labor Party (SA)
Children:3
Honorific Suffix:MP
Residence:Craigmore

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]

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  1. Web site: South Australian Election 2014 . Antony . Green . ABC.
  2. 4845. John Gee. yes. 21 November 2022.
  3. News: . Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union's Jon Gee preselected by Labor to run in Napier . . South Australia . . 2014-03-26 . 5 February 2014 . Lauren . Novak . Daniel . Wills.
  4. Web site: 2017-11-19 . Jon Gee . https://web.archive.org/web/20171119163501/http://sa.alp.org.au/alp/state-mps/jon-gee . 2017-11-19 . 2022-11-21 . South Australian Labor Party.
  5. Web site: State Election candidates . . 17 January 2018 .
  6. News: SA Labor MP Jon Gee to call it quits . Tim . Dornin . AAP . 27 January 2021 . 28 January 2021 . The West Australian.
  7. News: By Gee, Champion set to seek swap to state politics . . Tom . Richardson . 27 January 2021 . 28 January 2021.