Dora West (1883–1962) O.B.E., was a British Liberal Party politician and one of the founders of the League of Nations Union.

She was born in Holbeach St Marks, Lincolnshire, a daughter of Alderman William Henry West[1] and Mary Elizabeth Peck.

The League of Nations was established by the Great Powers as part of the Paris Peace Treaties, the international settlement that followed the First World War.

At the 1929 United Kingdom general election she contested, as a Liberal Party candidate, Rotherhithe in South East London.

Rotherhithe was not a promising seat for the Liberals but she managed to poll nearly a fifth of the vote; After the elections, she returned to her travels, in 1930 visiting Australia and New Zealand.