Carol R. Hughes MP (born November 26, 1958) is a Canadian politician, who has represented the electoral district of Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing in the House of Commons of Canada since 2008.

Prior to being elected, she worked as a staff representative for the Canadian Labour Congress.

She had told the press that she would not run in the 2008 election, but changed her mind after she stopped in Blind River for dinner on her way home from a Canadian Labour Congress meeting, and a couple she had never met approached her and encouraged her to run again.

Hughes has been appointed Assistant Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole for a second time; she previously held this role in the 42nd Parliament.

[5] On April 4, 2024 she announced she would not run again for office in the 45th Canadian federal election.