Nelson Elder (January 1923 – 6 February 1983) was a Northern Irish unionist politician.
Born in Limavady, Elder worked in a bakery[1] and joined the Northern Ireland Labour Party.
He served as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1966 to 1972.
[1] In 1967, he attended the founding meeting of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association as a representative of the UUP, but he walked out of its founding meeting after failing to convince the organisation that the murder of a police officer merited the death penalty.
On the Assembly, he served as the secretary of the backbench group of Pro-Assembly Unionists.