Ralph Sultan

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Ralph Sultan 2013.jpg

| name = Ralph Sultan

| honorific-suffix =

| caption = Sultan in 2013

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1933|6|6}}

| birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

| residence =

| assembly = British Columbia Legislative

| alma_mater = University of British Columbia
Harvard University

| constituency_AM = West Vancouver-Capilano

| term_start = May 16, 2001

| term_end = October 24, 2020

| predecessor = Jeremy Dalton

| successor = Karin Kirkpatrick

| party = BC Liberal

| website = [http://www.ralphsultan.ca/ ralphsultan.ca]

}}

Ralph Sultan (born June 6, 1933) is a Canadian politician, who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the community of West Vancouver-Capilano in British Columbia from 2001 to 2020.

A member of the British Columbia Liberal Party, he was first elected in 2001 and re-elected in 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017.{{Cite news|url=http://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/39thParl/sultanR.htm |title=Official Biography: Ralph Sultan |publisher=Legislative Assembly of British Columbia |accessdate=2010-12-10}} In the election of 2017, he became the oldest person to be elected in the history of B.C. politics at age 83.

Sultan has served as Minister of State for Seniors (2012–13), Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism (2013), and Minister of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology (2013). He was previously a member of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts.[https://www.leg.bc.ca/learn-about-us/members/41st-Parliament/Sultan-Ralph Ralph Sultan], BC Legislative Assembly He decided to retire rather than run in the 2020 British Columbia general election.{{Cite web|last=Richter|first=Brent|title=West Vancouver's Sultan won't run again|url=https://www.nsnews.com/news/west-vancouver-s-sultan-won-t-run-again-1.23980492|access-date=2020-10-01|website=North Shore News|date=October 17, 2019 }}