Leslie William Hunter (2 December 1927 – 30 April 2012) was a New Zealand politician for the Social Credit Political League.
At the age of four his family moved to Palmerston North where he attended primary and secondary school.
[1] Hunter was the Social Credit's deputy leader in the 1970s under Bruce Beetham, also serving as the party's parliamentary research officer.
He ran for election in 1969 in Palmerston North, for Ruahine in 1972 and 1975,[2] and in Bay of Islands in 1984.
[3] In the 1980s Hunter and his wife Pat moved to Kaikohe where they owned and ran a book and stationery shop.