| Jono Naylor | |
| Constituency Mp: | National Party list |
| Parliament: | New Zealand |
| Term Start: | 20 September 2014 |
| Term End: | 23 September 2017 |
| Order5: | 28th |
| Office5: | Mayor of Palmerston North |
| Term Start5: | 2007 |
| Term End5: | 2014 |
| Predecessor5: | Heather Tanguay |
| Successor5: | Grant Smith |
| Birth Name: | Jonathan Mark Naylor |
| Birth Place: | Upper Hutt, New Zealand |
| Nationality: | New Zealand |
| Party: | National Party |
| Otherparty: | Independent (as Mayor) |
| Spouse: | Karen |
| Children: | George, Luke and Chloe |
Jonathan Mark Naylor (born 1966),[1] commonly known as Jono Naylor, is a New Zealand politician from Palmerston North. He was Mayor of Palmerston North from 2007 until 2014, when he was elected to the House of Representatives in the as a list MP for the National Party. He did not stand for re-election as an MP in 2017. In 2018 he was elected to Horizons Regional Council in the by-election following the death of Councillor Pat Kelly. He was re-elected to Horizons in the 2019 local election and was appointed as Horizons deputy chair.[2]
Naylor was born in Upper Hutt and raised in Wellington, Auckland, and Masterton before moving to Palmerston North to study at Massey University in 1985. In 1997, he earned a Bachelor of Social Work. He is married with three children.[3]
Naylor became a member of the city council in 2001 and was elected mayor in 2007, defeating incumbent Heather Tanguay.[4]
Naylor sought the nomination of the National Party for candidacy in the electorate for the and was the sole nominee.[5] He promised to resign as mayor if elected to Parliament. Naylor was beaten in the election by the incumbent, Labour's Iain Lees-Galloway.[6] Naylor was in 51st place on National's party list,[7] and based on preliminary results, he was returned as a list MP, but this was not certain as the counting of special votes might have changed the number of List MPs elected for National.[8]
He declined to resign as long as his election as an MP was not guaranteed, with final results of the election being published on 4 October. This caused some protest, as he was meanwhile drawing two salaries. The delay in decision making also meant that a by-election for mayor could not be held before year's end, and would thus be held during February, with campaigning falling into the main holiday period; Lees-Galloway suggested that Naylor should meanwhile donate one of his salaries.[9] When the final results did come out, Naylor's election was confirmed, but he was now the lowest-ranked National MP, with Maureen Pugh in 52nd place having lost her place in Parliament. Naylor announced that his resignation as mayor is to follow shortly.[10] [11] Grant Smith was elected in his place in February 2015.[12]
He announced in late 2016 that he would not seek re-election at the 2017 general election.