| Denny Vitty | |
| Office: | Member of Castlereagh Borough Council |
| Constituency: | Castlereagh Central |
| Term Start: | 9 December 2010 |
| Term End: | 22 May 2014 |
| Predecessor: | Joanne Bunting |
| Successor: | Council abolished |
| Constituency1: | Castlereagh East |
| Term Start1: | 15 May 1985 |
| Term End1: | 17 May 1989 |
| Predecessor1: | District created |
| Successor1: | Iris Robinson |
| Constituency2: | Castlereagh Area C |
| Term Start2: | 20 May 1981 |
| Term End2: | 15 May 1985 |
| Predecessor2: | Bryan Davidson |
| Successor2: | District abolished |
| Office3: | Member of North Down Borough Council |
| Constituency3: | Abbey |
| Term Start3: | 17 May 1989 |
| Term End3: | 19 May 1993 |
| Predecessor3: | Ivy Cooling |
| Successor3: | Ivy Cooling |
| Office4: | Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast East |
| Term Start4: | 1982 |
| Term End4: | 1986 |
| Birth Date: | 1949 |
| Party: | DUP (before 1996; since 1998) |
| Otherparty: | UK Unionist Party (1996 - 1998) |
Denny Vitty (born 1949) is a Northern Irish unionist politician.
Vitty was elected to Castlereagh Borough Council for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in 1981, despite only taking 35 first preference votes, as he received transfers from Peter Robinson.[1]
He was then elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982, as a member of the Democratic Unionist Party for Belfast East - having won only 235 first preference votes.[2]
In 1989, Vitty stood down from Castlereagh Borough Council and was instead elected to North Down Borough Council,[3] In 1991, he served as the Mayor of North Down.[4] He then stood unsuccessfully for the Westminster seat of North Down at the 1992 UK general election, taking only 9.8% of the vote. In 1993, he did not restand for the council.
Vitty left the DUP and joined the UK Unionist Party (UKUP) in the 1990s. He stood for the UKUP at the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election. He was the last candidate to be eliminated in Belfast East.[5]
Subsequently, he rejoined the DUP and was co-opted to fill a vacancy on Castlereagh Borough Council in December 2010.[6] He was re-elected at the 2011 local elections. At the 2014 local elections, he stood in the Ormiston District Electoral Area of Belfast City Council, but was unsuccessful.[7]