John Edie (1856 – 7 June 1928) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the Otago region of New Zealand. He was a surveyor and an engineer, and also spent time as a farmer. He was Mayor of Lawrence.

Edie was born in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1856. He came to New Zealand as a child and attended school in Waitahuna near Lawrence.^[1][2] He joined the survey department in 1873 and surveyed the Catlins River Branch railway line, but construction did not start until 1879.^[1] In 1876, at age 20, he became assistant surveyor to the Government.^[2]

He joined the Tuapeka County Council in 1885 as an engineer and remained in that position until 1919, when he resigned to stand in the 1919 election.^[1]

In the 1896 election, Edie contested the Clutha electorate.^[3] Before the election, he was criticised for standing for the Liberal Party, thus claiming to represent the working man, yet underpaying staff at his mine.^[4] He was soundly beaten by the conservative incumbent, James Thomson.^[5]

Edie contested the Bruce electorate in the 1919 election as a Liberal against the incumbent, Reform's James Allen. Edie was beaten by the small margin of 126 votes (2.15%).^[6] After Allen's resignation in March 1920,^[7] Edie won the Bruce electorate in a 1920 by-election.^[8][9] At the time of the election, he was Mayor of Lawrence.^[2]

In the 1922 general election he won the Clutha electorate, but lost Clutha in 1925 to the Reform candidate Fred Waite.^[10]

Edie was for a time captain of the Tuapeka Rifles.^[11] He was into mining, especially gold mining, and had an interest in a mine at Island Block (a locality on State Highway 8 between Beaumont and Ettrick).^[1] He shared an interest in a farm of 900 acres (360 ha) in Tuapeka West with two sons.^[2][11]

Edie died on 7 June 1928 at Lawrence after having been bed-ridden with heart problems for six months.^[11]

His son, Herbert Kerr Edie, unsuccessfully contested the 1935 and 1938 elections in the Clutha electorate as a Labour Party candidate against James Roy.^[12][13][14]