[2] During the third democratic Parliament, he served as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, but he lost that position after the 2009 general election and returned to his prior status as an ordinary Member of the National Assembly.
[3] In 2010, the ANC asked Chauke to leave Parliament to serve in the North West as deputy campaigns coordinator ahead of the 2011 local elections.
[10] However, in the aftermath of the election, Thandi Modise declined to take up her seat in the provincial legislature, which in principle should have triggered Chauke's induction, since he was the next-ranked individual on the ANC's list.
[9] In May 2018, he was additionally elected to his prior role as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, which at that time was undertaking a controversial inquiry into the naturalisation of the Gupta family.
[13] In the 2019 general election, Chauke was ranked 154th on the ANC's national list and failed to gain re-election to his legislative seat.