Hugh Delahunty
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Delahunty | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Wimmera | |
| In office 18 September 1999 – 30 November 2002 | |
| Preceded by | Bill McGrath |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Lowan | |
| In office 30 November 2002 – 29 November 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Seat recreated |
| Succeeded by | Emma Kealy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hugh Francis Delahunty 28 June 1949 |
| Party | National Party |
| Relations | Mary Delahunty (sister) Mike Delahunty (brother) |
| Hugh Delahunty | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Hugh Francis Delahunty | ||
| Born | 28 June 1949 | ||
| Playing career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1971–1973 | Essendon | 47 | |
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Hugh Francis Delahunty (born 28 June 1949) is an Australian politician. He was a National Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014, representing the electorates of Wimmera (1999–2002) and Lowan (2002–2014). He served as Minister for Sport and Recreation and Minister for Veterans Affairs in the Baillieu and Napthine Coalition governments from 2010 to 2014.[1] Delahunty is the brother of former state Labor minister Mary Delahunty.[2]
Delahunty was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the 1999 election to represent the electorate of Wimmera with 58% of the two party preferred vote.[3] He was returned to Parliament at the 2002 election after a redistribution as the Member for Lowan with 67% of the two party vote,[4] and was re-elected at the 2006 election with a massive 72% of the two party vote.
During his time in parliament, Delahunty was a member of the Environment and Natural Resources, Parliamentary Drugs and Crime Prevention and Legislative Assembly Privileges Committees,[5] a board member of VicHealth and is a charter member of the Lions Club of State Parliament Victoria.
He retired from politics in 2014.[6]