Joe Gaston (1926 or 1927 – 15 March 2018) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Gaston worked as a farmer and served part-time in the Ulster Defence Regiment. In 1973, he was elected to Ballymoney Borough Council as a non-party candidate. He was re-elected in 1977, for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). In December 1977, Gaston's right leg was removed by a bomb planted in his tractor by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Gaston lost his council seat to Sinn Féin's Daithi McKay in 2005.