Leslie Robert Coates (9 June 1898 – 20 February 1976) was an Australian politician.
Born in Brighton to market gardener Robert Brooke Coates and Jane Annie Boxshall, he attended Moorabbin State School and became a cigar maker.
He was a delegate to the Trades Hall Council and in 1952 was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Dandenong, serving until 1955, when he unsuccessfully attempted to transfer to Moorabbin.
He contested the federal seat of Higinbotham in 1955 and Moorabbin in 1958 and 1961, but was not able to re-enter parliament.
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