Delegate River is a locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

It variously operated over time as a half-time and full-time school with periods of being unstaffed before its final closure on 14 March 1956.

Delegate River East Post Office opened c. 1921-23 and closed on 20 December 1968.

[8] The Delegate River locality was described in 1923 as consisting of "about twenty houses, a hall and a nice little school at which twenty-six children attend.

[9][10] Delegate River was threatened by the 2019-20 East Gippsland bushfires, in which the locality was subject to an evacuation order in early January.