Ellen Ballance (née Anderson; 1846 – 14 June 1935) was a New Zealand suffragist and community leader.

Ballance was born in Wellington and was the daughter of merchant David Anderson and his wife Ann Thompson.

He was a supporter of women's suffrage; his successor later said that it had been Ballance who converted her husband to the cause.

On one occasion in 1891 she caused a stir in the House when, after an anti-suffrage MP declared that women did not want the vote, she handed around a petition in the Ladies' Gallery.

Later that year, the Electoral Act 1893 gave New Zealand women the right to vote.