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{{Short description|Australian politician (born 1941)}}
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| name = Bob Chynoweth
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| constituency_MP1 = [[Division of Flinders|Flinders]]
| parliament1 = Australian
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| predecessor1 = [[Peter Reith]]
| successor1 = [[Peter Reith]]
| term_start1 = 5 March 1983
| term_end1 = 1 December 1984
| constituency_MP2 = [[Division of Dunkley|Dunkley]]
| parliament2 = Australian
| predecessor2 = ''New seat''
| successor2 = [[Frank Ford (Australian politician)|Frank Ford]]
| term_start2 = 1 December 1984
| term_end2 = 24 March 1990
| predecessor3 = [[Frank Ford (Australian politician)|Frank Ford]]
| successor3 = [[Bruce Billson]]
| term_start3 = 13 March 1993
| term_end3 = 2 March 1996
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| birth_place = [[Richmond, Victoria]]
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'''Robert Leslie Chynoweth''' (born 7 June 1941) is an Australian politician. He was an [[Australian Labor Party]] member of the [[Australian House of Representatives]] from 1983 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996.

==Early life==
Chynoweth was born in [[Richmond, Victoria|Richmond]], an inner suburb of [[Melbourne]] to a family of [[Cornish people|Cornish]] descent.<ref>White, G. Pawley, A Handbook of Cornish Surnames.</ref>

==Politics==
Chynoweth first entered federal parliament at the [[1983 Australian federal election|federal election]] of March 1983, as part of a [[landslide victory|landslide]] Labor win under the leadership of [[Bob Hawke]]. He was the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] candidate for the seat of [[Division of Flinders|Flinders]], based on the outer south eastern fringe of Melbourne. He defeated incumbent [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]] member [[Peter Reith]]. Only months earlier Labor had failed to win Flinders, with a different candidate, Rogan Ward, at a [[1982 Flinders by-election|by-election]] held in December 1982. Ward did not become the candidate again due to dissatisfaction with his candidacy at the by-election.

Following a [[redistribution (Australia)|redistribution]] of electoral boundaries in 1984, Chynoweth opted to contest the seat of [[Division of Dunkley|Dunkley]]. He was defeated for Labor [[preselection]] by Albert Knowles of the [[Labor Left|left faction]], but the preselection result was overturned by the [[Australian Labor Party National Executive|National Executive]]'s decision to mandate the endorsement of all sitting MPs.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/136918811|title=All sitting ALP members endorsed|first=Paul|last=Malone|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=29 September 1984|access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>

Dunkley was one of a number of new seats created as a consequence of the enlargement of parliament. The seat took in much of the urban area previously covered by Flinders, and was considered a safer bet for a Labor candidate than the redistributed Flinders. (Dunkley was created with a notional two-party margin of Labor 53.2% to Liberal 46.8%. Flinders had a notional post-redistribution two-party margin of Labor 50.7% to Liberal 49.3%.<ref>[http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1984/1984repsvic.txt Psephos: 1984 Federal election, Victoria]</ref>) Chynoweth won the seat of Dunkley at the [[1984 Australian general election|1984 federal election]] and was re-elected in [[1987 Australian general election|1987]].

Chynoweth was defeated at the [[1990 Australian federal election|1990 federal election]] as one of a number of Labor losses in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] at that election. However, he was to make a comeback to politics by winning back the seat of Dunkley at the [[1993 Australian federal election|1993 federal election]]. He defeated [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]] MP [[Frank Ford (Australian politician)|Frank Ford]], who had defeated him three years earlier.

A redistribution that took place ahead of the [[1996 Australian general election|1996 federal election]] transformed Dunkley from a marginal Labor seat into a seat with a notional Liberal majority.<ref>[http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1996/1996repsvic.txt Psephos: 1996 Federal election, Victoria]</ref> Chynoweth re-contested the redistributed Dunkley but lost to Liberal candidate [[Bruce Billson]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070915115931/http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?TABLE=biogs&ID=8008 Biography for CHYNOWETH, Robert (Bob) Leslie]

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