Ba Htay (Burmese: ဘဌေး, pronounced [ba̰ tʰé]) was a Burmese businessman, administrator, the Chairman of the Multi-Party Democracy General Election Commission[1] and one of the pioneers of the now-extinct Scouting movement in Burma.

[2] Ba Htay represented the Union of Burma Boy Scouts and was elected one of the very earliest chairmen of the five-man Far East Scout Advisory Committee (FESAC), which would later become the Asia-Pacific Region, and served from 1958 to 1960.

Ba Htay started his career as a tutor at Rangoon University, for a brief period.

After retirement in 1963, he was brought back into public life as the Multi-Party Democracy General Election Commission in 1988, after nationwide protests included demands for a free and fair election.

Election was held in Burma (Myanmar) on 27 May 1990 and Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won by landslide.