David Gordon Clelland (born 27 June 1943) is a British Labour Party politician.

Clelland was selected to contest the 1985 Tyne Bridge by-election, one of the then-safest Labour seats in the country, which had become vacant following the death of the MP Harry Cowans.

At the by-election, he defeated Rod Kenyon and Jacqui Lait, the latter of whom became a two-time Conservative Member of Parliament.

Following a close fought contest with Sharon Hodgson, the sitting MP for Gateshead East and Washington West, Clelland was chosen to fight the new seat at the next election for the Labour Party.

David Clelland married Maureen Potts on 31 March 1965 in Gateshead, with whom he had two children and four grandchildren.