Wes Lanhupuy

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Wesley Wagner Lanhupuy (1 November 1952 – 26 October 1995{{cite web | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130566982?searchTerm=wes%20lanhupuy | title=Obituary: Les Lanhupuy | newspaper=Canberra Times | date=29 October 1995 }}) was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Arnhem in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1983 until his resignation in 1995.{{cite web|first=Antony|last=Green|author-link=Antony Green|title=Arnhem|work=2005 Northern Territory Election|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|year=2005|url=http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nt/2005/guide/arnh.htm|accessdate=31 October 2010}}{{Cite web|url=https://parliament.nt.gov.au/business/hansard/minutes/listing/nest_content?target_id=352339&parent_id=358459|title=Nested_content|date=19 July 2016}}

He died shortly after the by-election that was triggered by his resignation.

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Lanhupuy was the director of the Northern Land Council prior to entering politics. In 1983, Labor leader and Arnhem MLA Bob Collins nominated in the new seat of Arafura, allowing Lanhupuy to contest Arnhem at that year's election. He was narrowly defeated for preselection on the local ballot amidst a party factional conflict, but subsequently selected as the Labor candidate after the unanimous intervention of the federal executive of the Labor Party.{{cite book | url=https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/8855/1/ALandslideElection,TheNT19832.pdf | title=A Landslide Election, The NT 1983 |author1=Loveday, Peter |author2=Jaensch, Dean |name-list-style=amp | pages=15, 33}}