{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}} '''Roy Mountford "Monte" Vale''' (12 September 1912 – 10 September 1977) was an Australian politician.
Vale was born in Foster to schoolteacher William Mountford Vale and Flora Ethel Reddick. He attended state schools before studying at Melbourne Teachers' College and becoming a teacher from 1934. In 1949 he became seriously ill and lost a leg to amputation. He then worked as a laboratory assistant for Australian Paper Manufacturers.<ref name=vic/>
Vale was a member of a political family; his great grandfather William Vale and his great grand-uncle Richard Vale were both members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.<ref name=vic/> A Liberal Party member, Vale was a member of Diamond Valley Shire Council from 1964 to 1969, and from 1970 to 1973, serving as president from 1971 to 1972.<ref name=vic/> He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1967 as the member for Greensborough.<ref name=parl>{{Cite Parliament of Victoria Member Profile |name=Roy Mountford Vale |id=monte-vale |access-date=26 August 2025}}</ref> Defeated at the 1970 state election, he was re-elected in 1973, but that election was declared void by the Court of Disputed Returns.<ref name=parl/> Vale won the subsequent by-election.<ref name=parl/>
Vale died at Heidelberg in 1977. His son Roger Vale was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.<ref name=vic>{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403071531/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1503 |title=Vale, Roy Mountford ('Monte') |date=3 April 2012}}</ref>
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