Ivan Joseph Welsh (25 February 1940 – 15 March 2007) was an Australian politician.
After his military service concluded, he became a restaurateur, caterer and salesman, and in 1984 was elected to Lake Macquarie City Council, becoming mayor in 1987.
[1][2] In 1988, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as an Independent, representing the seat of Swansea.
He held the seat until his defeat by the Labor candidate Don Bowman in 1991, in which year he also lost the mayoralty.
He continued to contest both state and federal elections, both as an Independent and (in 1996) as a member of the Liberal Party.