Elmore Philpott (May 2 1896 - December 9 1964) was a Canadian politician and journalist. Philpott joined the Canadian military during World War I and was badly wounded - he needed two canes to help him walk for the rest of his life.

He was working as an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe when he ran in the 1930 Ontario Liberal Party leadership convention losing badly to Mitchell Hepburn. The next year he attempted to enter the Ontario legislature through a by-election but was defeated.

In 1933, Philpott resigned from the Globe to join the new Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and was asked to lead a campaign organising Clubs for the Ontario CCF. The CCF in Ontario was organised into three sections at the time, the United Farmers of Ontario, the Labour Conference made up of socialist and labour groups and the CCF Clubs with Philpott becoming president of the Ontario Association of CCF Clubs and one of the key leaders of the party in the province and a popular stump speaker for the socialist cause.

After twenty months of intense work in the party, including leading a purge of Communists, Philpott suddenly resigned from the CCF in March 1935, ostensibly because he was a UFO candidate in the upcoming provincial election and the UFO had resigned from the Ontario CCF over the purported influence of Communists. A few months later, he announced he was rejoining the Liberal Party of Canada and was the Liberal candidate in the riding of York South in the 1935 Canadian election coming in third behind the Tory and CCF candidates.

Philpott returned to journalism and had moved to British Columbia in the 1940s where he became a reporter and then a columnist for the Vancouver Sun. He ran as an Independent candidate in the federal by-election held in New Westminster, British Columbia in 1949 placing second behind the Liberal canadidate. He was finally elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1953 Canadian election as the Liberal MP for Vancouver South but was defeated in the 1957 Canadian election. He attempted to return to the House of Commons as a Liberal candidate in the 1958 and 1962 general elections but was badly defeated both times.