Gavin Short

Gavin Phillip Short (born 1962) is a Falkland Islands politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Council for Stanley constituency from 1989 to 1993, and as a member of the Legislative Assembly for the same constituency from 2009 to 2017 and again from 2021 to 2025.

Short works for Cable & Wireless and is the Chairman of the General Employees' Union. He is a former member of the Falkland Islands Defence Force and a volunteer fireman.

Short won re-election in 2013, but lost his seat at the 2017 general election. In 2018 he joined the Falkland Islands Radio Service as a Senior News Correspondent. He returned to the assembly at the next election.

In June 2023, Short and fellow assembly member John Birmingham addressed the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization to speak about the dispute over the islands’ sovereignty.