Charles Lafayette "Chas" Halsted (September 23, 1894 - February 19, 1968) was a Minnesota politician.

he attended the North Dakota State Normal and Industrial School at Ellendale, graduating in 1914.

He moved to Brainerd, Minnesota in 1929 and opened Halsted's Grocery Store.

Halsted served as town clerk in Brainerd in addition to his work as a grocer.

In 1948, he unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Republican governor Luther Youngdahl as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate in Minnesota's 1948 gubernatorial election.