David Bellotti

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David Frank Bellotti (born August 13, 1943) is an ex Liberal Democrat member of Parliament for the constituency of Eastbourne between 1990 and 1992.

Bellotti contested the seat of Lewes in the 1983 and 1987 general elections under the Liberal banner. He then won the parliamentary seat of Eastbourne for the Liberal Democrats in a 1990 by-election following the murder of Ian Gow MP by the IRA. Two years later Bellotti was defeated by Nigel Waterson in the 1992 general election in which John Major's Conservative Party was re-elected.

David Bellotti returned to local government regaining a seat on the council. He then became CEO of Brighton & Hove Albion, a position which gained him much local notoriety due to the sale of the Goldstone Ground after the board could no longer deal with the amount of debt the club incurred in the previous decade. David Bellotti's involement continued with Brighton and Hove Albion with the club relocating to Gillingham, he finally left after Bill Archer was finally bought out by the Dick Knight Consortium. For a time he was also the chairman of the Sussex police authority.

After leaving the football club and losing his council seat Bellotti moved to Bath and became election agent for Don Foster MP. In May 2003 David Bellotti was elected councillor for Lyncombe ward on Bath and North East Somerset council.