Bob Chynoweth
| Bob Chynoweth | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Flinders |
|
|
In office 5 March 1983 – 1 December 1984 |
|
| Preceded by | Peter Reith |
| Succeeded by | Peter Reith |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Dunkley |
|
|
In office 1 December 1984 – 24 March 1990 |
|
| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | Frank Ford |
|
In office 13 March 1993 – 2 March 1996 |
|
| Preceded by | Frank Ford |
| Succeeded by | Bruce Billson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 June 1941 Richmond, Victoria |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
Robert Leslie "Bob" 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.
Chynoweth was born in Richmond, an inner suburb of Melbourne to a family of Cornish descent. .
Chynoweth first entered federal parliament at the federal election of March 1983, as part of a landslide Labor win under the leadership of Bob Hawke. He was the Labor candidate for the seat of Flinders, based on the outer south eastern fringe of Melbourne. He defeated incumbent Liberal member Peter Reith. Only months earlier Labor had failed to win Flinders, with a different candidate, at a by-election held in December 1982.
Following a redistribution of electoral boundaries in 1984, Chynoweth opted to contest the seat of Dunkley. 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%.) Chynoweth won the seat of Dunkley at the 1984 federal election and was re-elected in 1987.
...
Wikipedia