Member of Parliament
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | List | Party |
| 1975–1978 | 38th | Waitemata | National | |
| 1978–1981 | 39th | Helensville | National | |
| 1981–1984 | 40th | Helensville | National | |
| 2002–2005 | 47th | List | 10 | NZ First |
| 2008 | 48th | List | 10 | NZ First |
In the 1975 election, 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 electorate until the 1984 elections, when Helensville electorate was abolished. Jones contested the new West Auckland electorate, but was defeated by the Labour Party candidate, Jack Elder.
Jones was Junior Whip for National in 1979. From April 1982 to June 1984, Jones was Deputy Chairman of Committees.
Jones is known as one of the few New Zealand MPs to have been injured in a political attack; in 1980, while serving as a National Party MP, he was stabbed in the chest by an elderly constituent in his electorate office.
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