Dail Jones

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Parl.	Electorate	List Pos.	Party
38th	Helensville		National
39th	Helensville		National
40th	Helensville		National
47th	List	10	NZ First

Dail Jones QSO is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the New Zealand First party.

Jones was born in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan. He arrived in New Zealand in at the age of 16, and after completing his education (earning a LLB), began practice as a lawyer.

In the 1975 elections, Jones was elected MP for Waitemata, standing as a National Party candidate. In the following election, the Waitemata seat was abolished, and Jones was elected as the MP for Helensville. He retained this seat until the 1984 elections, when Helensville electorate was abolished. Jones contested the new West Auckland seat, but was defeated by the Labour Party candidate, Jack Elder.

Considerably later, in the 2002 elections, Jones returned to Parliament as a list MP for the New Zealand First party, which had been established during Jones' time outside Parliament. He was ranked in tenth place on the New Zealand First list. He was New Zealand First spokesperson on foreign affairs, trade, customs, the courts, and the attorney-general's role. Following the loss of his seat in the 2005 elections, he was elected President of the New Zealand First party (in the place of the resigning Doug Woolerton).

Jones is known as one of the few New Zealand MPs to have been injured in a political attack - while serving as a National Party MP, he was stabbed in the chest by a constituent in his electorate office.