John Luxton

Murray John Finlay Luxton, known as John Luxton, QSO (born 14 September 1946) is a former New Zealand National Party politician, and a son of Jack Luxton who had previously represented the same Matamata electorate. He was a National Party MP from 1987 to 2002. He is the Chairman of DairyNZ, the organisation that represents all New Zealand dairy farmers. He is also co-chair of the Waikato River Authority, a Crown/iwi co-governance organisation established through Treaty of Waitangi settlement legislation to clean up the Waikato River.

He was born in Morrinsville and educated at Hamilton Boys' High School and Massey University (BAgSc, DipAgSc, DipBusSc, MMgt). After an initial role as a Ministry of Agriculture dairy specialist, he and his late wife Merryl went dairy farming. Periods of project consulting in Africa, Asia and the Pacific were interspersed with dairy farming in New Zealand over the following decade.

Luxton was first elected to Parliament in the 1987 elections as the MP for Matamata. He replaced his father Jack Luxton, who held the Piako electorate then Matamata for 21 years from 1966, and had been Chairman of Committees in Parliament.

Luxton held Matamata until the 1996 elections, when a boundary change caused him to stand in the seat of Karapiro. In the 1999 elections, he opted to become a list MP, leaving the Karapiro seat to newcomer Lindsay Tisch.

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