Leslie Robert Coates (9 June 1898 – 20 February 1976) was an Australian politician. Born in

Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

to market gardener Robert Brooke Coates and Jane Annie Boxshall, he attended

Moorabbin Moorabbin is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Moorabbin recorded a population of 6,287 at the . Most of the ea ...

State School and became a cigar maker. Around 1924 he married Hilda Grace Hedberg, with whom he had two children. He served on

Moorabbin City Council Moorabbin is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Moorabbin recorded a population of 6,287 at the . Most of the ea ...

from 1947 to 1974, including four periods as mayor (1949–50, 1953–54, 1961–62 and 1969–70). He was a delegate to the Trades Hall Council and in 1952 was elected to the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...

as the

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member for

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, serving until 1955, when he unsuccessfully attempted to transfer to

. He contested the federal seat of Higinbotham in 1955 and Moorabbin in 1958 and 1961, but was not able to re-enter parliament. After losing preselection for Moorabbin in 1964 he left the Labor Party, rejoining in 1972. Coates died in 1976 at Moorabbin and was buried at

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1898 births 1976 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Mayors of places in Victoria (state) Cigar makers Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria 20th-century Australian politicians People from Brighton, Victoria Victoria (state) local councillors Burials in Victoria (state) {{Australia-Labor-Victoria-MP-stub