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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see [[WP:NONFREE]] --> |
| name = Ray Hunter
| caption =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = 
| residence = [[Grand Falls-Windsor]]
|assembly2            = Newfoundland and Labrador House of
|constituency_AM2     = [[Windsor-Springdale]]
| term_start2 = 1999
| term_end2 = 2007
| predecessor2 = [[Graham Flight (politician)|Graham Flight]]
| successor2 = riding redistributed
|assembly            = Newfoundland and Labrador House of
|constituency_AM     = [[Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South]]
| term_start = 2007
| term_end = November 27, 2015
| predecessor = first member
| successor = ''District Abolished''
| party = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador|Progressive Conservative]]
| religion =
| occupation = Electrician, Businessman
| website = 
}}

'''Ray Hunter''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MHA}}, is a [[Canadian]] [[politician]] in [[Newfoundland and Labrador]], Canada. He represented the [[electoral district (Canada)|district]] of [[Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South]] in the [[Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly]] until his retirement in 2015.<ref>[http://www.gfwadvertiser.ca/News/2009-04-27/article-1404173/Grand-Falls-Windsor-lands-2010-Winter-Games/1 "Grand Falls-Windsor lands 2010 Winter Games"]. ''Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser'', April 27, 2009.</ref> He has sat as a member of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador|Progressive Conservative Party]] (PC) since being first elected in the [[1999 Newfoundland general election|1999 provincial election]], he has since been re-elected in the [[2003 Newfoundland and Labrador general election|2003]] and [[2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election|2007]] elections.

In June 2011, former [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament]] [[Rex Barnes]] challenged him for the PC nomination but Hunter easily defeated him and was re-elected in the [[2011 Newfoundland and Labrador general election|October election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/hunter-wins-central-nfld-tory-nomination-1.1013811|title=Hunter wins central Nfld. Tory nomination|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]|access-date=July 1, 2011|date=June 23, 2011}}</ref>

== Electoral record ==
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 Newfoundland and Labrador general election]]}}
|-
{{CANelec |NL |PC |'''Ray Hunter''' |2,131 |57.38% |&ndash;}}
|-
{{CANelec|NL|Liberal|Merv Wiseman|1,165|31.37%|}}
|-
{{Canadian party colour|NL|NDP|row}}
|[[Newfoundland New Democratic Party|NDP]]
|Clyde Bridger
|align="right"|418
|align="right"|11.25%
|align="right"|
|}

{{Election box begin | title=[[2007 Newfoundland and Labrador general election]]<ref name=cbcnews>[http://www.cbc.ca/nlvotes2007/riding/007/ Newfoundland & Labrador Votes 2007]. [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]. Retrieved May 22, 2009.</ref>}}
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{{CANelec |NL |PC |'''Ray Hunter''' |2,620 |69.22% |&ndash;}}
|-
{{CANelec|NL|Liberal|Aubrey Smith|973|25.71%|}}
|-
{{Canadian party colour|NL|NDP|row}} 
|[[Newfoundland New Democratic Party|NDP]]
|John L. Whelan
|align="right"|192
|align="right"|5.07%
|align="right"|
|}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.pcpartynl.ca/person/ray-hunter/ Ray Hunter's PC Party biography]

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