John Gordon Elliott QSM (5 November 1938 – 12 July 2022) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

For his last two years in the profession, he was deputy principal of Bayfield School.

[1] He won the Whangarei electorate from Murray Robert Smith in 1975 and was re-elected in 1978,[3] but failed to win the reselection by the National Party in 1981, who instead chose John Banks.

Instead, Elliott stood in the New Lynn electorate as an independent in the 1981 election against the incumbent from the Labour Party, Jonathan Hunt, but he was unsuccessful.

In 2004, Elliott sold the publication to publisher Martin Leach, who changed the name to Ponsonby News.