Sarmīte Ēlerte (born 8 April 1957) is a Latvian politician who is a member of the Unity party.

After the victory of the Front in the 1990 election she was the director of the Information Centre of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia.

In 2007 Ēlerte became a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, which included, among others Mart Laar, Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer and George Soros.

[4] In 2007, along with Sandra Kalniete she was the initiator of the so-called Umbrella revolution (Lietussargu Revolucija) directed against the oligarchy and the ruling class.

[9] On November 26, 2012, she was nominated a candidate for the office of mayor of Riga by the Unity party.