Brian Neeson

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Brian Kevin Neeson (30 September 1945 - ) is a former New Zealand politician. He was an MP from 1990 to 2002, representing the National Party.

Neeson was born in Durban, South Africa, but was brought to New Zealand when six years old. He has worked in a number of jobs, having owned a restaurant and retail meat business and worked as a real estate consultant and property developer. He later managed a private investment company.

Neeson represented a number of West Auckland electorates in his career, with frequent boundary changes meaning that he never ran in any electorate as an incumbent. He was first elected to Parliament in the 1990 elections as MP for the Te Atatu seat, but in the 1993 elections, he successfully contested the Waitakere seat. In the 1996 elections, he successfully contested the Waipareira seat, and in the 1999 elections, he contested his old Waitakere seat once again.

In the 2002 elections, he sought the National Party nomination for the new seat of Helensville, which had absorbed most of his electorate. However, he was controversially defeated for selection by John Key, a new candidate. Neeson considered his non-selection to be a betrayal, believing that National Party president Michelle Boag had deliberately engineered his defeat in order to further her "rejuvenation" of the party. Neeson quit the National Party and stood as an independent, but placed third.