Ray Hunter

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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

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| name = Ray Hunter

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| 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

| 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

| religion =

| occupation = Electrician, Businessman

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Ray Hunter {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MHA}}, is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He represented the district of Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly until his retirement in 2015.[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. He has sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) since being first elected in the 1999 provincial election, he has since been re-elected in the 2003 and 2007 elections.

In June 2011, former Conservative Member of Parliament Rex Barnes challenged him for the PC nomination but Hunter easily defeated him and was re-elected in the October election.{{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}}