Labour has a new MP in Newport West after winning the by-election caused by the death of the city's popular and long-serving MP Paul Flynn who represented the area for 32 years.
The married mum of two grown-up children likes singing, keeping fit and going to church, and campaigned on her local roots and being "born and bred on the Gaer".
Now 56 years old, she attended Duffryn Comprehensive School (Now John Frost School) before training to be a physiotherapist.
She now lives in Allt-yr-yn with her husband and is a governor at Glasllwch Primary, where her children attended school.
She spent 30 years in the National Health Service largely as a physiotherapist and union official - working at Nevill Hall Hospital, Panteg Stroke Unit and Serennu Children’s Centre in Newport. In 2007, she was elected as President of the Wales Trades Union Congress (TUC).
She is a volunteer at a local night shelter scheme in the city and is a member of a choir. She has twice stood in Parliamentary elections for Labour before, both times in Monmouth.
During the campaign she was endorsed by Mr Flynn's wife, Sam, who attended the count at the Geraint Thomas Velodrome.
She thanked her family for their support in her victory speech.
Her thoughts on key issues
Brexit
During the campaign she was at pains to say this was an election for local people and the issues that concern them, not Brexit.
But, she voted Remain in the 2016 referendum and says she does not want either a "damaging" or a no deal Brexit.
She does support a people's vote "just in case Parliament isn't able to achieve a sensible Brexit".
Speaking during the campaign she said: "This government has made a complete shambles of the Brexit negotiations. We can’t accept a damaging Tory Brexit or a no deal outcome.
"If the Prime Minister had good sense she would have appealed across the Commons for consensus much earlier, instead of playing into the hands of the hard right factions in the Conservative Party and the DUP.
"We now need to make sure that her recklessness doesn’t put jobs and the economy at serious risk.”
Jeremy Corbyn
Labour MPs are increasingly defined by where they stand in relation to the party's divisive leader.
“There are strong views for him and strong views against him,” said Ms Jones.
“Every leader has their followers and admirers and people who aren’t so keen.”
She told the Mirror that she was a socialist but joined Labour when Tony Blair was leader. And she said that a by-election “is not about changing the leader”.
Refusing to be “buttonholed” or define herself by wings of the party, she is neither a member of the Blairite Progress group nor the hard-left Momentum wing.
“I plough my own furrow, I look at each policy and weigh it up and make my own decisions,” she said.
“I’m not beholden to anybody in that respect.”
M4 relief road
Mrs Jones wants to see the £1.3bn relief road built.
She has not specified the route she prefers, but says action should long have been taken to ease congestion.
"I understand there are deeply held views on this, but we've had enough of the talking, we need some action now," she told the BBC.
Austerity
In her victory speech she said she would take the stories of austerity she had been told on the doorsteps to Westminster with her.
"I will stand up for the people, the jobs and the economy of Newport West.
"Who knows what the next few days, weeks and months will bring. But what I know for certain, is that people have had enough after a decade of austerity.
"They've had enough of cuts that have taken police off our streets, enough of being made to feel worthless by cuts from universal credit and the bedroom tax.
Crime
She wanted the election to be about issues which people were saying they were worried about.
She used her victory speech to criticise cuts affecting police numbers and, in recent weeks has spoken about knife crime.
“Crime is rising and it’s clear why. The Tories have slashed our local police force by nearly £30 million. Violent and knife crime have risen dramatically under the Tories. I’m immensely proud of our city but Tory police cuts have made our streets less safe.
"Our local forces need to be well funded to deal with the demands of modern policing. I’m calling on Theresa May to reverse her cuts and put more Bobbies on the Beat.”
The NHS
“I worked as a physiotherapist for over thirty years, I’ve worked both under Labour and Tory Governments, and I know the difference that Welsh Labour in particular has made. I really do want to make sure that the NHS remains true to Nye Bevan’s principles, free at the point of delivery and there for all.”
The results:
