Jon Gee

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}

{{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix =

| name = Jon Gee

| image =

| 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 = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1959|5|24}}

| birth_place = Harlington, Bedfordshire, England

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Australian Labor Party (SA)

| spouse =

| relations =

| children = 3

| honorific_suffix = MP

| residence = Craigmore

| website = {{URL|https://jongeemp.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.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/sa-election-2014/ |title=South Australian Election 2014 |first=Antony |last=Green |website=ABC}}{{Cite SA-parl|pid=4845|name=John Gee|former=yes|access-date=21 November 2022}}

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.{{cite news |author= |title=Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union's Jon Gee preselected by Labor to run in Napier |url=http://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/australian-manufacturing-workers-unions-jon-gee-preselected-by-labor-to-run-in-napier/story-fnii5yv4-1226817892077 |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=South Australia |publisher=News Limited |accessdate=2014-03-26 |date=5 February 2014 |first=Lauren |last=Novak |first2=Daniel |last2=Wills}}{{Cite web |date=2017-11-19 |title=Jon Gee |url=http://sa.alp.org.au/alp/state-mps/jon-gee |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119163501/http://sa.alp.org.au/alp/state-mps/jon-gee |archive-date=2017-11-19 |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=South Australian Labor Party}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://sa.alp.org.au/images/pdfs/SA%20ALP.pdf |title=State Election candidates |publisher=South Australian Labor |accessdate=17 January 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Gee announced in late January 2021 that he no longer intended to contest the 2022 South Australian state election.{{cite news |url=https://thewest.com.au/politics/sa-labor-mp-jon-gee-to-call-it-quits-ng-s-2047020 |title=SA Labor MP Jon Gee to call it quits |first=Tim |last=Dornin |agency=AAP |date=27 January 2021 |access-date=28 January 2021 |newspaper=The West Australian}} 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.{{cite news |url=https://indaily.com.au/news/2021/01/27/by-gee-champion-set-to-seek-swap-to-state-politics/ |newspaper=InDaily |title=By Gee, Champion set to seek swap to state politics |first=Tom |last=Richardson |date=27 January 2021 |access-date=28 January 2021}}