Helen Elizabeth Buckingham OAM (born 17 November 1952) is a retired Australian politician.
Buckingham was actively involved in a number of community organisations, and was on the board of Box Hill Hospital for several years,http://www.easternhealth.org.au/boxhill/bhh.html as well as being a member of the Monash University Department of Physiology's Animal Ethics Committee.
In 1997, Buckingham made a bid to be elected as a councillor for the City of Whitehorse, and was ultimately successful.
She stood as the Labor candidate for the federal seat of Deakin at the 2001 election, and was thought to have a chance of winning it.
She switched from federal to state politics, and won pre-selection for the Legislative Council seat of Koonung Province at the 2002 election.