Jackson Taylor

Jackson George Taylor (born 1991/1992)

Career

In 2016, Taylor was elected to Knox City Council in Collier Ward, with a margin of 5.85%. In 2018, he became the deputy mayor of the council. For five years, Taylor was a serving member of Victoria Police, stationed at Glen Waverley and Lilydale, as well as spending time in the Family Violence Unit. When he was pre-selected by the Labor Party to run for state parliament, he was serving as a police prosecutor, with the rank of senior constable.

At the age of 26, Taylor won his seat at the 2018 state election, with a margin of just 0.4%.

Taylor is a member two committees in state parliament - the Integrity and Oversight Committee and Legal and Social Issues Committee.

He was re-elected at the 2022 Victorian state election, overcoming a boundary redistribution that made the seat of Bayswater notionally Liberal-held to defeat Nick Wakeling with a nearly five percent swing in his favour.

Originally a member of Labor Right, Taylor defected to Labor Left along with six of his colleagues shortly after the 2022 Victorian state election. The defection of he and his colleagues meant that the Labor Left constituted a majority of the state Labor caucus.

On 23 September 2025, Taylor announced that he would not run for a third term and would instead retire from politics at the 2026 election, citing the need to spend more time with his young family.