Wes Lanhupuy

Wesley Wagner "Wes" Lanhupuy (1 November 1952 – 25 August 1995) was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Arnhem in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1983 to his death in 1995.^[1]

Lanhupuy was the director of the Northern Land Council prior to entering politics. In 1983, Labor leader and Arnhem MLA Bob Collins nominated in a different seat to allow 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.^[2]

References

1. Green, Antony (2005). "Arnhem". 2005 Northern Territory Election. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
2. Loveday, Peter and Jaensch, Dean. A Landslide Election, The NT 1983 (PDF). pp. 15, 33.